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ILT again

There's a merge discussion going on here for an article brought to GA by an ITL sock. I think merging is a terrible idea until the article is checked for copyvio and completely scrubbed. Also the images should probably be stripped. Just wanted you to know. I won't be around much in the next few days, but will keep an eye on it and help if I have time when I'm back to editing. Thanks. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 06:40, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

ILT, actually, "ItsLassieTime". Pretty obvious that "PrestoPrestoPresto" is a sock. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 06:47, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks BB for pointing out the typo. Yes, Presto is certainly a sock, but that doesn't change the problems with the article ILT created. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 14:25, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Lassie was well-known for that kind of thing, and anything it worked on needs to be reviewed. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 15:04, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I've spent months working on their articles, scrubbing. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 15:41, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

I think we have another one: . I'm getting very tired of keeping up with this and being chastised for it. Thanks. Truthkeeper88 (talk)

Who's chastising you, besides the sock itself? If it's somebody else, let me know, and I'll go do a little bit of "chastising" back. 0:) ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 17:31, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

And this user also needs to be looked at too. Thanks. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 15:37, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Dover has been indefinitely blocked by Bsadowski1, and it is  Confirmed as ILT, and all those edits have been reverted; HistoryAAI seems  Unrelated. Moreover, there is no reason to feel "chastised" because you are doing the right, and this is a banned user we're dealing with. –MuZemike 16:58, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I hadn't looked at their contribs when they left a message chastising me on how the pages should be scrubbed - which understandably left me a little annoyed. Once I saw their contribs I realized it was the banned sock who was telling me how to clean their plagiarized articles. I'll take the message off my page. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 19:23, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

GAN Review for May Revolution

Hello. I came to ask for just a little assistance. I just started reviewing GA nominations recently and have done mostly smaller-scale articles, nothing too difficult. However, I am now reviewing May Revolution and just want to see if you can look at what I have done so far and see if it all checks out. I really am wondering whether and article can be quick-failed for being too long, I made notes about that on the review page. Also I think I'm on the right track with my comments about references but just want to make sure. This review has challenged me quite a bit more than previous ones. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Have a great day! P.S. Great job for your involvement in getting the GAN backlog elimination drive organized. •Felix• 21:42, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

I can maybe get to it sometime later this week or next week, failing that. –MuZemike 21:43, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Ok, thanks so much! •Felix• 21:44, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Rosanacurso

Hi, thanks so much for doing the CU on this. There is at least one new one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/Macseconite

I suspect this one too, although he hasn't actually done anything wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/Marialcazar

Do you have any advice on what to do with additional SPs? Do I reactivate the case? (How?) They do not seem interested at AIV in matters like this.

Logical Cowboy (talk) 20:36, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Just let me know here if more pop up. –MuZemike 12:41, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

OK, thanks, I have added about 8 more since HelloAnnyong did her/his user blocking, so I suppose that at least those 8 could be blocked plus the other ones now up at SPI. Any other ideas about what to do? This seems to keep on popping up, and it is expanding to other talk pages, like for Belgium now. Do you think it could be some strange school assignment, like for an English language school in Spain? Just thinking.... Logical Cowboy (talk) 19:56, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

I'll block them right now, but I can't check them at the moment for sleepers. –MuZemike 19:57, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Does this kind of thing warrant a sock-drawer check?

Hi. 'Tis the edit summary to which I refer. :) --Moonriddengirl 15:56, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

I'd say that it is, as he does also create sleepers when he IP-hops, which CU will pick up. Unfortunately, what I don't have is sufficient time to sit down and go through it as well as the others in the previous SPI case. I don't know if an edit filter or some sort of IRC-tracking bot would help, but his patterns on the Sandbox is bloody obvious. –MuZemike 15:59, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look. :) Is he a known offender? He's only temporarily blocked; is he evading something? --Moonriddengirl 18:40, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

I wouldn't have a clue. –MuZemike 18:50, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Your off wiki (IRC) communication with Iaaasi

I was going through some things that you have said. Can you please help me if I got it right?

You posted the initial comment in Iaaasi's unblock discussion, poisoning the well, claiming he did not use sockpuppets since March. This was done following your extended IRC discussion with Iaaasi when in fact he did use many sockpuppets before March . Then you did not correct yourself when many people in the same discussion pointed this out. In the same discussion you posted He has been consistently constructive over at simple.wiki and at ro.wiki which is kind of hard to determine without knowledge of the Romanian language. So I must arrive to the conclusion that you posted the above message at the IRC request of Iaaasi. Then after my two sockpuppet investigations instead of being handled by random and uninvolved administrators were commented on by you at the IRC request of Iaaasi. Then finally you have commented on the ban proposal among the first people again at the IRC request of Iaaasi. So all in all you commented in four separate discussions at the various requests of Iaaasi did I get it right so far? Hobartimus (talk) 20:21, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

To keep everything in one place and for transparency reasons, I have replied at the ANI page here (with minor correction, as I originally intended to reply here). –MuZemike 23:21, 18 March 2011 (UTC)