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A clerk or checkuser recommends that new socks in this case not receive tags per WP:DENY.
This case's socks should have their talk page and email access revoked due to abuse.
11 May 2024
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For the 71... IP, it has added trivial content about airport/road closures into recent tornado outbreak/winter storm articles (here and here), has edited multiple sports-related articles since December 2023, and edited Andrew5's LTA page shortly after attacks took place on Meta, linking to them here. The IP has also edited Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Samlaptop85213, an LTA page one of his socks created (here). It has been intermittently active for multiple months in the same topic areas of sports and weather.
For the 69... IP, it has edited 2 recent tornado outbreak articles today, and edited several sports-related articles on teams and players in football. His linking to certain policies while making edits, like this one, as well as the particular topics the IP has edited of sports and weather since July 2023 also leads me to believe this is an Andrew5 sock. ChrisWx 🌀 (talk - contribs) 22:52, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I added 96.57.52.66 for future WP:DUCK reference. Back in March 2024, 71.190.208.91 made reference to a previous WP Weather debate (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of United States tornadoes in May 2008). 71.190 did not comment in that discussion, however 96.57 did. 96.57 has also coincidentally not edited since January 2024, however, their last edits was on 2023–24 North American winter, which 71.190 edits. Andrew5 is also familiar with winter-storm articles. Also coincidentally, 96.57 and 71.190 never edited on the same day, but seem to edit the same articles (late-December 2023 to mid-January 2024), specifically a lot on that winter article. 96.57 shouldn't be blocked as they are inactive, but noting that DUCK connection for future references.
Also noting 71.190 is picture-perfect Andrew5 sock. Within their last 50 edits, we have sport edits, winter storm edits, hurricane edits, tornado edits, and most importantly, even an edit onWP:LTA/A5, which funny enough is LTA DUCK evidence as Andrew5 is familiar with that specific behind-the-scenes page as well as this SPI page. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page)23:07, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Edit history would suggest this is a WP:DUCK of Andrew5. Between 2023-24, they have made less than 50 edits, consisting of sports (baseball) and weather edits, even on the same day (20 May 2023). This is exactly the lookout on WP:LTA/A5. Coincidentally (DUCK-coincidence), their first edit in several months happen to also be telling others to discount my !vote in a requested move discussion. This is also common Andrew5 behavior, with either personal attacks against other weather editors (plus a few admins) or inserting themselves in discussions in an attempt to say several long-term editors are stupid/irrelevent. Even if they have not edited recently when this SPI is reviewed, if the reviewing administrator feels this is Andrew5 DUCK evidence, I would still appreciate a block or some agreement statement at least, given they are involved in an ongoing RM discussion. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page)09:18, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
So um what exactly did Andrew5 do wrong? Those edits look fine, not disruptive, quite helpful and productive actually. Is it just because he’s “socking?” Well, SchroCat blatantly engaged in abusive sockpuppetry but is still allowed to edit. In fact he never had to serve the sanctions that the community decided he deserved. Why doesn’t he get blocked?? Maybe it’s time to realize that Andrew5 is actually an enthusiastic contributor to wikipedia… or else block SchroCat. Can’t be treating certain people differently.Defjotme (talk) 12:21, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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