Need a CU magic wand to pull out the whole series, and hopefully rangeblock (yes, some collateral damage is likely). I suspect there are dozens, and I have no idea who is the master - start from top and see for yourself. This is an LTA case on mass-tweaking arms infobox images, using throwaway accounts and IPs (I've tried a narrow rangeblock 121.54.44.128/26, but apparently failed). Materialscientist (talk) 03:58, 1 March 2013 (UTC) Materialscientist (talk) 03:58, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
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User:Fangoh was recently blocked for disruptive editing for among other things repeatedly making changes contrary to MOS, specifically increasing the size of the image and adding image attributes that the template isn't made to handle [1], in the infobox of a large number of weapons related articles. Just like the IPs ([2], [3], [4]), which geolocate to the same geographic area. The other named accounts have all showed up in the past 24h and show the exact same behaviour ([5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]), and seem to be an attempt to avoid the warnings for disruptive editing that are being issued by a number of different editors. Thomas.W (talk) 09:38, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
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Changes image size and image attributes on a large number of weapons related articles just like previous socks (sample edit [11]). Request check for sleepers since the socket master is known for creating large numbers of disposable accounts. Thomas.W (talk) 08:21, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
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Makes edits contrary to MOS in the infobox of weapons-related articles. Also changes image in infobox to own uploads, images that have been ripped from various forums on the 'Net but are uploaded as own work. Example diffs: Shambalaya, IP 121.54.44.149. The IP is also in the same IP-range as Darmahjgari and his numerous socks have operated from. Thomas.W (talk) 07:27, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
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Makes the exact same changes ([14], [15]) to the infobox of weapons related articles as the sockmaster and its dozens of previous socks. After a discussion with the sock master on the talk page of previously banned sock Bujawarat, where a reason for his/her behaviour was given, he/she now selfreverts the changes after creating a PDF of the article with the desired images in it. His/her behaviour is nevertheless disruptive, and the images he/she uploads to Commons for inclusion in the PDFs are clear copyvios. Peachesapplegate was apparently discarded after all of its uploads to Commons were deleted as copyvios, but 吃老里 is active as we speak/write. Request search for sleepers as the sock master has a habit of creating multiple throw away user accounts. Thomas.W (talk) 09:18, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
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The aforementioned newly registered (created barely 3 days after the latter was blocked) has the same exact MO as the earlier blocked sock (User:吃老里) of User:Darmahjgari. Request also to flush out sleepers. Dave ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 03:09, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
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The same behaviour as the sock master and all previous socks, changes image size in the infobox of weapons related articles ([16]), uploads images that are clear copyright violations (images found on various forums on the web) and then adds those images to the infobox of various articles here on en-wiki ([17], [18]), or in other words walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. Thomas.W (talk) 10:30, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
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A new user who walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, making edits contrary to MOS in the infobox of weapons related articles, just like Darmahjgari and all previous socks: [19], [20], [21], [22]. Thomas.W (talk) 11:13, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
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Exhibits the exact same behaviour as Darmahjgari and his/her numerous socks, making edits contrary to MOS on weapons related pages (diff 1, diff 2). Meaning that he/she/it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. Thomas.W (talk) 13:08, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
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Another Darmahjgari sock, exhibiting the exact same behaviour (diff 1, diff 2) as previous socks, making changes contrary to MOS on weapons related articles. Quacking loudly while doing so. Thomas.W (talk) 13:37, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
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A new account that walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, making changes contrary to MOS on weapons related articles (diff 1, diff 2, diff 3), in addition to uploading blatant copyvios on Commons. Four new socks were blocked yesterday (two active, two sleepers), so there will probably be a few today too. Thomas.W (talk) 07:18, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
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Two brand new user accounts that both make Darmahjgari's signature edits contrary to MOS on weapons related articles (diff 1, diff 2; both of them accompanied by very loud quacking). Unfortunately for them their first edits were made on a page that is on my watchlist, so they were both detected, reverted and warned within minutes of their first edit (attention that seems to have made the person behind the accounts abandon them, probably creating new ones instead...). I would appreciate a search for sleepers, and since there AFAIK have been no socks for a while I assume that there has been a now expired range block in place, so a renewal of that range block would be welcome. Thomas.W (talk) 14:30, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
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