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Bryson 85

03 October 2021

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Narrow interest in articles about politicians (primarily in Australia, also New Zealand), and in list articles and AfDs related to those. Similar usernames too. There's overlap at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of prime ministers of New Zealand by date of birth among, for example, with Fabio and Poida (and Green Hook, below). RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 22:17, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, I've been told - without further details - that the following accounts are all CU-confirmed to the above, although the behavioural match is not immediately apparent:
In addition to all of the above (who are all CU-confirmed); there's the following, which matches behaviourally (although the CU connection has not been confirmed) with the first group:
I've been told that a behavioural investigation is the way forward. Thanks, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 22:24, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Caleb 1223 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

Identical phrasing by Caleb 1223 at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by age (diff), Poida 0122 at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of prime ministers of New Zealand by date of birth (diff), Kerwin 05 at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of premiers of New South Wales by age (diff). Seems like rather brazen WP:PROJSOCKing to me. Maybe there needs to be a check for sleepers (or whatever we should call them). TompaDompa (talk) 04:21, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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

@Drmies Similar argument about page views by GorgonaJS at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by age as Theotherscrubbythug at the sock infested Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of premiers of New South Wales by age. There are additional redlink individuals who participated at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by age and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by length of tenure who it might be prudent to check over as well, to see if they are a part of this uncovered network of socks. Newshunter12 (talk) 15:06, 7 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Holcomb 7531 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

@Drmies Similar username by Holcomb 7531 as other blocked accounts, and created identical in format/topic article List of governors of Texas by age as six articles created by Theotherscrubbythug (now deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of premiers of New South Wales by age). Newshunter12 (talk) 16:52, 7 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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03 November 2021

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Pro forma. See User_talk:Drmies#Hello (permalink). -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she/they) 01:06, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • All but McKern are   Confirmed per Drmies. Tagging McKern as suspected (feel free to upgrade to "proven" if you're confident, Doc) and straggler Burrill as confirmed. Moving to new oldest. Closing. (Actually, was never open to begin with.) -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she/they) 01:17, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

17 August 2023

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Pro forma following this ANEW report. Overlap with and behavioral similarities to previous socks at Ray O'Connor (for the IP) and Des Corcoran/Nathan Rees (for TheOtherScrubby); impersonating TheScrubby just like previous sock Theotherscrubbythug. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 18:46, 17 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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