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Igec133

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26 July 2022[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

New account created a week after the original was blocked. Same topic areas (Slovakian politics), same aggressive attitude with endless reverting. See these two edits at Direction – Slovak Social Democracy in which the new account returns to continue removing sources being removed by the original account (which was blocked for edit warring over them).[1][2] Number 57 15:43, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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28 July 2022[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

Continuing the edit warring from the last identified Igec sock at Next Slovak parliamentary election (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) Number 57 11:09, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  •  Check declined – Checkusers will not link accounts to IPs, per the privacy policy.  Looks like a duck to me; picking up right from where the blocked sock left off. The entire /18 appears to be this user on a reasonably dynamic IP. In the first instance let's go for a block, with a rangeblock and/or page protection the next step. Pink clock Awaiting administrative action - Please block the IP for 72 hours. --Jack Frost (talk) 11:16, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    @Jack Frost:  Done KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 22:17, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

04 September 2022[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

They are doing an edit war on National Council of Slovakia in a similar way as Igec133 did on Opinion polling for the next Slovak parliamentary election (manual reverts without summary and they are similarly active on many Slovak articles simultaneously) and his account first became active on 7th August (about 2 weeks after 178.143.96.6 & Jurajec6) but i'm not an expert on this topic it is only a suspicion. Braganza (talk) 16:12, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  • I share Braganza's suspicions regarding this new editor. Number 57 16:33, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Pink clock Awaiting administrative action - seems pretty likely based on the date of account creation, overlap and Commons uploads [3][4][5]. Please indef 198mkj.6754 as a suspected sock. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:26, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Blocked and tagged. Closing. firefly ( t · c ) 20:45, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

20 November 2022[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

Editing in User:FiliusLibertatis/sandbox. Since FiliusLibertatis (talk · contribs) is a confirmed sock of Igec133, I assume it's an obvious sock. LilianaUwU (talk / contribs) 12:44, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Comment I concur that this is definitely Igec. Cheers, Number 57 15:26, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  • The sandbox is now deleted, and the IP has not edited since this report was filed. Closing. MarioGom (talk) 21:42, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

01 February 2023[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

Long-term disruption on Slovak political articles. Have already blocked this account per DUCK, filing this here for the record. See a recent complaint at User talk:Number 57#Igec133 EdJohnston (talk) 04:47, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Based on behavior i've also blocked Special:Contributions/178.143.96.0/20 for two months. Evidently it is the same guy. EdJohnston (talk) 04:49, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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04 March 2023[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

IP falls under the range of 178.143.64.0/18 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), which is the IP of Igec133 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). This IP also made an edit to the sandbox of PupillusLibertatis (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), a confirmed Igec133 sock. This user has previously edited in January 2023, as evident by this discussion that I've opened on Number57's tp. Vacant0 (talk) 15:07, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Number 57: Considering that you've proposed extended confirmed protection for certain articles in January, do you think that this is still a viable option? Vacant0 (talk) 15:20, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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  • I'd be happy to put ECP on a few of the main Slovakian politics articles (starting the most recent elections, OLANO and National Assembly), and add it to any further ones edited by Igec socks. Cheers, Number 57 16:17, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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02 April 2023[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

As evidenced by previous SP investigations, this IP falls under the 178.143.64.0/18 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) range. Additionally, the IP has made edits to Slovak politics, which is the area that Igec133 also used to contribute to. Vacant0 (talk) 09:19, 2 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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06 July 2023[edit]

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

Large edits made to Direction – Slovak Social Democracy, an article that Igec133 edited on their main account and subsequent sock accounts. The IP falls under the 178.143.64.0/18 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) range which was already confirmed to be Igec133. Vacant0 (talk) 12:17, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Number 57:, you might be interested in this. They've made even more contributions since this API case. Vacant0 (talk) 08:46, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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It's obviously an Igec sock. Have blocked the range for a year. Cheers, Number 57 13:49, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]