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03 March 2024[edit]

– A checkuser has declined a request for CheckUser, and the case is now awaiting a behavioural investigation.

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

Account created in January but first edit on 3 March 2024. First edit is a single detailed copy paste with focus on rape, atrocities, China, interracial - same topics and edit style as Milktaco. Similar food based name. Qiushufang (talk) 03:45, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Adding Candy stoned, another food based name account linked to Milktaco that made similar wartime sexual atrocity content on the same page. Qiushufang (talk) 22:13, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
See similarity between these edits [1][2] (rape of Yulu's daughters). Qiushufang (talk) 22:32, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Adding Cooking canner, another food based name focused on China, race, interracial relationships. @RoySmith: - would it be alright to have a second look at these accounts. I'm seeing a handful of culinary based names over the past few years all focused on Manchus/China/sexual wartime atrocity with mass copy pasting behavior. Qiushufang (talk) 22:24, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Adding Coravodoa who seems to be the original editor for the content copy pasted by Mango. Qiushufang (talk) 22:35, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Adding Serenebea. Same interests as all the other accounts. Created page for Yulu (viceroy), who was the subject of Milktaco sock Candy and Mango's edits [3][4]. Copy pasted content added by Coravodoa on Yulu. Copy pasted content added by another sock Coumets. Qiushufang (talk) 23:02, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Adding Sodoron. Similar topics, edited Dungan Revolt (1895–1896) like Milktaco [5][6] with mass copy pasting behavior. Made large edits to same page as sock Coumets [7]. Serenebea restored content added by sock Coumets. Sodoron, Coumets, Serenebea have all edited and disseminated the same content. I just realized Coumets was not confirmed to Milktaco but is still a sock reported on their SPI. Qiushufang (talk) 23:02, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is a pattern of long term additions on the same subjects by accounts that all reference and add on to each other but are only active for a couple of months at most. Coravodoa, Candy stoned (Milktaco sock), and Cooking canner each made large additions to Manchu people in 2021 2022 2023 respectively. Coravodoa has heavy matches with Milktaco's interests [8]. Mangopapayafruit copy pasted Corovodoa's content [9][10]. Serenebea, Candy stoned, and Mangopapayafruit just happen to all have the same interest and edited content related to Yulu [11][12][13]. The number of times each account references or builds on top of each other is too much to count. Qiushufang (talk) 03:29, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by other users[edit]

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  • Sodoron and Coravodoa seem rather likely, considering what I have seen of Milktaco's editing style and preoccupations. Wouldn't surprise me if there was WP:MEAT with slightly different editing styles going on with the others. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 01:16, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments[edit]

  •  Check declined by a checkuser - I'm having trouble understanding "same edit style" when all they've done is copy-paste some text from another article. Historically, this case has had a ton of socks, but I'm hesitant to run a check just based on what I see so far. The repeated edit-undo-restore pattern doesn't match any Milktaco behavior I'm familiar with, but if you know of any other examples of that, please ping me. RoySmith (talk) 18:25, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

04 April 2024[edit]

– This SPI case is closed and will be archived shortly by an SPI clerk or checkuser.

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

Wizardly397 exhibits a pattern similar to Milktaco's repeated behavior of successively copy-pasting material targeting non-Han Chinese ethnicities across several different articles shortly after creating a throwaway. For a recent precedent, please see the recently blocked Milktaco sockpuppet Crucatius (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), who engaged in a similar behavior: Both targeted Muslim ethnic minorities in China, and both edited Islam during the Qing dynasty. Bamnamu (talk) 02:42, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by other users[edit]

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Definitely a Milktaco sock. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:37, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments[edit]

  • I checked but found nothing (nothing but a VPN, apparently). I can see the similarities with Crucatius and others, but I'm no expert on this sock and I'm a bit hesitant to push that button. RoySmith, are you? Drmies (talk) 15:39, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Drmies Based on some notes in cuwiki and edits to Christianity in China by both accounts, I'd say there's a very good chance Wizardly397 and Eyesacker are the same person. RoySmith (talk) 15:59, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

12 May 2024[edit]

– This SPI case is open.

Suspected sockpuppets[edit]

9 edits so far, all are historical Milktaco spots for adding large non-sequitur, non-enyclopedic paragraphs about ethnography and race in inner asia. Remsense诉 04:58, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by other users[edit]

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Seems to have adjusted previous tactic of copy-pasting large chunks of text, but the topics edited are Milktaco all over. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:31, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You mean to tell me most of the stuff that was pasted were all from a blocked user? I would never make such a mistake ( If I knew it was a blocked user's work). A few of the things I edited are original but most of them I edited are already posted in forums. Someone said I could quickly get ranked up by being the fastest to contribute to wikipedia so I tried it. The information and book source was all provided with me (let me explain: it was already there and I checked it and though there was no problem. I did not follow any persons order to edit, I did it for my own benefit). I though it was all genuine because that was the book in the source says anyway. I though the risks are nearly zero but I had no idea it was from someone else who set me up.
AirshipJungleman29 (talk) : You should have just learned to tell me that I was editing stuff similar to Milktaco. Judging from it's history this Milktaco is clearly a VPN master that edits wikipedia as many time he likes and don't even to explain anything like I need to.
I do not want to get blocked so quickly like this, is unfair on me. HabichuelasBeans (talk) 18:14, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Evidence that I'm not Milktaco
As you can clearly see this Milktaco (and his other sock VPN accounts) focuses on Chinese history, generals, marriages of Chinese minorities ect. I on the hand edited marriages in Russia between Russian slavs and Turkic ethnic groups like Tartars and Bashkir Tartars who are who are generally very white looking. I added interracial marriage on both sides of the gender, he added only males.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Interracial_marriage&diff=prev&oldid=1223463906
It's obvious, I see a lot of correlation between my edits and Milktaco, I didn't realize it was mainly focusing on Chinese. Except for my edit on interracial russian and Pannonian Avars origins, and culture yenesei kyrgyz which should have nothing to do with him. I wanted to edit on Turkic influence in Russia aswell as Europe.
Another evidence I'm not this guy because he uses VPN and I'm using my computer IP. If I was this guy I wouldn't even be using my home IP address which has been as long as several years the same and recently unblocked.HabichuelasBeans (talk) 05:29, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments[edit]

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