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10 December 2024

Suspected sockpuppets

• 197.184.119.157 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• Vuvuzelamedia (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Tools: Editor interaction utility · Interaction Timeline · SPI Tools

first time doing this spi thing, sorry in advance for any errors. extremely similar editing patterns, most notably in creating redirects of south african models to tangentially related articles (vuvuzela, lerato) and adding them to their user pages (vuvuzela, lerato). vuvuzelamedia in particular made a habit of blanking them and erasing them from hey man im josh's log (once, twice, thrice, and that third one comes with some weird "adjustments") and rfd discussions mid-rfd (dec 2, dec 2 again, dec 2 yet again, dec 3), and seems to have (presumably accidentally) done some logged-out editing as the ip, whose talk page they improperly removed warnings from (here). there might be more possible socks i'm missing, i admittedly could have dug a lot deeper than the extent to which their edits disrupted rfd. note that vuvuzela has already been checkuser blocked (thanks, spicy) cogsan _{(nag me) (stalk me)} 20:00, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

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• These are all  Likely or better to each other:

• KK swamped (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Vuvuzelamedia (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Thatoyagago (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Leratokgang (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Leratoletholawena (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

• My assumption was that this was some kind of UPE involving South African musicians, but it may just be CIR.  No comment with respect to IP address(es). Spicy (talk) 21:21, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

  ah, could have just checked the edit history of khosi twala, which all of them have edited, with varying levels of disruptiveness cogsan _{(nag me) (stalk me)} 22:53, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

• The IP hasn't edited in several days. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 13:52, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

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