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Zaner25

22 July 2018

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After Zaner 25 racked up a level 4 warning for promoting a new game on List of sports, the user appears to have adopted this new account. EricEnfermero (Talk) 19:44, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

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26 July 2018

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Quacking on List of Sports JC7V7DC5768 (talk) 01:52, 26 July 2018 (UTC) JC7V7DC5768 (talk) 01:52, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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29 August 2018

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Further promotion of a silly and made-up “sport”. May just want to semi List of sports again. Larry Hockett (Talk) 00:03, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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01 September 2018

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Same MO: Adding a fairly ridiculous made-up sport to WP. Larry Hockett (Talk) 23:52, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Sir Sputnik -  Done. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 02:50, 2 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

15 October 2018

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Obvious sock. Promoting the same made up sport by creating Draft:Relay Ball Sport, Draft:Relay Ball sport and Draft:Relayball sport. Bennv3771 (talk) 06:58, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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28 October 2020

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By their username and interest in the same topics (Draft:Mini Basketball Relay, Hand Football) with the same pattern of creating made-up sports. Dylsss(talk • contribs) 11:12, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This is 100% ducky, apart from the topic intersections, they created pages beginning with Relay Ball The new sport of Relay Ball was created by Zane Gardner... (Special:Log/ZanerG24) on their previous account, and their new account is Zane E Gardner. Dylsss(talk • contribs) 17:39, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Stale and already blocked a while ago for being not there, however Relayball47 (talk · contribs) appears to be a sock as well. Dylsss(talk • contribs) 17:47, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Well, there are a couple obvious socks which are untagged but blocked on en-wiki and simple-wiki. Dylsss(talk • contribs) 18:28, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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19 February 2021

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Requested name change to Zgardner007 m:Special:GlobalRenameQueue/request/73525. I saw a variation-on-the-theme account with links to relay ball within the last day or two but can't find it now. Cabayi (talk) 22:07, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Found it! wikt:Relay Ball & OTRS 2021021710005358, perhaps Chuck Entz or Surjection who both deleted versions of the wiktionary page on 17 Feb can shed more light?. Cabayi (talk) 22:50, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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On en.wikt, wikt:Special:Contributions/Demons24, who also posted messages to a whole bunch of user talk pages. — surjection ⟨??⟩ 22:55, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Who is indefinitely blocked here as User:Demons24. There are references to meatpuppetry on their talk page, so it may get complicated. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:05, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
There's no trace of any of the three accounts above on enwikt. I don't think I should run a CU on enwikt yet, since there's no evidence of abuse there, and Demons24 has plenty of edits here. Perhaps if this inquiry turns up evidence that Demons24 is a sock I can run a check to see if there are any overlaps not in evidence here. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:20, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I ran a check on Demons24, and it's all the same IP with no other accounts. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:33, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
A steward locked the accounts as LTAs. JavaHurricane 11:44, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

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  • CheckUser requested and endorsed by clerk - apologies for the paucity of the evidence. This may need x-wiki CU by the stewards? Please check for (other) sleepers. Cabayi (talk) 22:30, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Confirmed to one another.
Also found and  Confirmed:
Relays24 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
Minibasketballclub62 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
Demons24 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 23:18, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

08 May 2021

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More spamming of Relay Ball and Zane Gardner at Draft:Ball Relay. Requesting CU as the last one found a few sleepers and it's been a while. Spicy (talk) 23:38, 8 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Also found and  Confirmed:
Eli Gardner (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
Bagging and tagging sock accounts. This SPI can be closed... ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 17:12, 9 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

03 December 2021

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Recreation of Mini Basketball, which was created in the past by Zaner22 (April 2020) and Zane E Gardner (August 2020), both globally locked as socks of Zaner25.  Looks like a duck to me. Requesting CheckUser due to historical use of sleepers, though I am aware that the CheckUser trail has gone cold due to the locks (unless there are notes on CheckUser wiki). Sdrqaz (talk) 23:29, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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27 March 2022

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User Bombers23 is sock of User:Zaner25, who has had many socks and is indfintely banned. Bombers23 account created 26 March 2022 with attempt to create previously deleted Draft:Relayball and Draft:Mini Basketball Relay. David notMD (talk) 14:45, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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27 March 2022

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Very similar to the many cases in the archive, same style of contributions:

 Looks like a duck to me, requesting CheckUser due to the repeated historical use of sleeper accounts. Bsoyka (talk) 14:56, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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21 May 2022

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  •  Already blocked and tagged. Closing. Hoary, it seems like makework, but the formatting of SPI cases can be tricky and interferes with a stack of other things if not correct. It's one of the reasons we ask that cases are not filed direct to the archive. In relation to the formatting, Twinkle can do it for you automagically; otherwise following the instructions under How to open an investigation: at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations will also make it a lot easier. If all the work is done (and thankyou very much for that!), you can change the case status to closed and a clerk will check the case over as part of the archiving process. Otherwise, just file the case and we'll get around to doing the closing / archiving (as I've done) in due course. Thanks, --Jack Frost (talk) 02:09, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

20 July 2022

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First edit is to Biddy Basketball (a regular target of Zaner25 socks) to add a mention about relay ball (Zaner's invention) with a degree of information about the game that isn't in the source. Nthep (talk) 21:20, 20 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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05 September 2022

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Showed up this afternoon, on my talk page (here) and others (here), asking about Relayball. As I looked into articles and drafts with this title, I came across accounts connected to this SPI investigation so I thought I'd report it. Asking for Checkuser in case there are sleepers.

Just as an aside, because I've always wondered, how come when you block an account with account creation prevented, sockpuppets can just create more accounts? Is this "account creation" prevention tied to a specific IP number and they can just move to a new IP? Because this setting doesn't seem to ever stop them from creating more accounts. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 23:53, 5 September 2022 (UTC) Liz Read! Talk! 23:53, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also, editor just created Draft:Relayball that has a link to a public radio story] that focuses on "Zane Gardner" who I assume is the same person as Zaner25. Liz Read! Talk! 00:56, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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23 September 2022

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Yet another sock trying to make Relayball a thing.Here's a help desk request on Relayball from this guy. How are we so ineffective at preventing socks and why is Zane E Gardner so damn determined to have a Wikipedia page on Relayball?? Dialmayo (talk) (Contribs) Please ping me when replying. 17:45, 23 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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21 October 2022

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Recreation of Draft: Ball Relay another favourite creation of Zaner. Already blocked and tagged. Only reported for reference purposes. Nthep (talk) 19:16, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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