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30 September 2019

– This SPI case is open.

Suspected sockpuppets

• Negin2019 (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Filologo2 (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Harlyn35 (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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The sockmaster (Azerti83) was banned in early 2018. I get the impression that it has continued on and off since that point. All three accounts share the same basic editorial stance and interests. The names follow the same pattern of word + some number that other sock puppets have followed. Negin2019 is particularly close to Negin1 another Azerti83 sockpuppet that was blocked in March of last year.

Negin2019 is clearly linked through their edits to Xarnegos:

• SP Sonrisas1 vs. Negin2019. Negin2019's version here is identical to the last version from Graphext (another Azerti83 sock) that was in place just before that user was blocked for sockpuppetry.

Filologo2 and Harlyn35 are more complicated, but also linked to Negin1 through several very similar edits over a longer period of time. Most of these are related to downplaying any role that Spain may have played in genocides of Native Americans. Examples:

• Harlyn35, Filologo2 and Negin1 all removing the same claim about Junipero Serra on Genocide of indigenous peoples

• Filologo2, Harilyn35 , Negin1 on the date of abolition of the Encomienda system

• Harlyn35, Filologo2 emphasizing the Dutch and Anglo role in the "Black legend"

• Negin1 Filologo2 on the role of disease in wiping out native populations after Spanish conquest. Harilyn35 is currently making the same argument on the talk page.

Sock 3 (Harlyn35) is the only sock puppet that is recently active, but the others were active earlier this year and it seems worthwhile to go ahead and document this since the abuse seems fairly extensive. It seems pretty likely that there is also a fair bit of IP socking going on, as well as other (anti-Spain) sockpuppets warring over the content. Nblund 23:54, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

• adding Here's another one: Harilyn35's table is identical to the table Filologo2 added in a wall of text on the talk page.

Both accounts also have a habit of unattributed copying within Misplaced Pages as well, but the relentless POV pushing on Spanish history is the main giveaway. Nblund 17:25, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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• Just adding that I noticed the same connection. Nblund's diffs show the behavioral connection, but the general similarity in editing pattern is obvious just by glancing at the accounts' contributions. Also Harlyn35 stated "Rv good faith edits" in an edit summary as a five-day-old account, and cited OWN as a two-week-old account. Hrodvarsson (talk) 02:28, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

• I'll also add that I noticed the connection pretty early based on my own interactions with Filologo2 months ago, which can be observed in the archived talk page.--C.J. Griffin (talk) 04:04, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

• I did not run a check here because all but one of the accounts is stale, but there's enough evidence here to block all of the accounts as suspected socks. There's an additional tell by way of centralauth which I'm mentioning here as a reminder to myself. All  Blocked and tagged. Ivanvector (/_Edits) 21:09, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

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