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Cdswalkthrough

Cdswalkthrough (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

24 November 2014

Suspected sockpuppets

• Frayten (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Bmotbmot (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Newdod (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• 99.235.106.13 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• Cdswalkthrough (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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Several users exhibiting the same passion to edit articles about Chinese surnames and the Three Kingdoms period of China without having the basic understanding of the Chinese language, and worse, the willingness to provide sources for their edits. Specifically, the IP and Frayten like to revert to each other's versions when they have been reverted by others (ie. When Frayten gets reverted, the IP will come out to revert back to Frayten's version [example diffs: IP revertingto Frayten's verion], and vice versa. [example diffs: Frayten revertingto IP's version]) This makes it suspicious that the two accounts are working in tandem, since the two accounts both rarely communicates with other editors, let alone to each other. Also suspiciously, when an editor questions whether Frayten is related to other users who exhibited similar behaviour before (named above) [1], Frayten stops editing and the IP comes out to revert Cao Cao back to Frayten's version [2]. This looks like an implicit confession that the other two named accounts are indeed his, and at the very least a CheckUser should be performed to clear the suspicion. _dk (talk) 07:17, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

I add that Frayten's recent behaviour in ignoring other editor's attempts at communication and warnings and blanking them [3] is very much like the ones by Bmotbmot (talk · contribs) which got him indefed. I now suspect that Frayten is a sockpuppet that Bmotbmot uses to get around his indef block. _dk (talk) 01:49, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

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I'd like to add that all three named users exhibit the same obsession with Chinese surname articles, creating a number of incoherent and unsourced new articles that require a lot of effort to clean up, and some have been deleted. -Zanhe (talk) 07:38, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

After Frayten was recently blocked by JamesBWatson for disruptive editing, a sleeper account, Cdswalkthrough, became active and started editing the same type of articles: Chinese surnames and historical biography, exhibiting similar behaviour: creating articles without sources and written in poor English. As this account is clearly not stale, I've reopened the Checkuser request. -Zanhe (talk) 03:21, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

• Bmotbmot (talk · contribs) and Newdod (talk · contribs) are  Stale.  No comment with respect to IP address(es).--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 01:10, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

• Cdswalkthrough's editing bears a large amount of similarity to that of Frayten and 99.235.106.13, not only in terms of the general type and style of editing, as described by Zanhe, but also in the specific articles edited, and in a few cases specific edits similar enough to amount to small-scale edit warring. Adding that to the timing of the use of the accounts (Cdswalkthrough stops editing, Frayten edits, Frayten is blocked, Cdswalkthrough comes back and edits again) I see a duck, so I have blocked both accounts. I see no such obvious damning evidence to connect Bmotbmot or Newdod to Frayten/Cdswalkthrough/99.235.106.13, though they are both certainly possible. In view of the resurrection of Cdswalkthrough, an old dormant account, to evade Frayten's block since Ponyo's decline of a CU request, it may well be helpful to have a CU for possible sleepers now. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:31, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
• @JamesBWatson: Cdswalkthrough (talk · contribs) is a  Confirmed sock of Frayten (talk · contribs).  No sleepers immediately visible.--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 16:25, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
• Thanks. That seems to be all. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 17:33, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

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11 January 2015

Suspected sockpuppets

• Drayten (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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Clear sockpuppet of banned sockmaster Frayten (talk · contribs) editing the same articles (Chinese historical personages) [4]. WP:DUCK. _dk (talk) 07:17, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

• Grayten (talk · contribs) and Drayten (talk · contribs) are  Confirmed. Note that Cdswalkthrough (talk · contribs) from the archives is an older account than Frayten.--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 08:18, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
• I've moved the case and tagged the accounts in this case to reflect the oldest account. Mike V • Talk 19:46, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

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