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Easy4me

25 March 2014
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Block evasion by Easy4me. IP's contributions are clearly similar based on the pages edited, types of edits made, edit summaries left, and increased activity at the IP account since the block.

Thanks. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 23:51, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I am going to clear this up for you right now. Yes, I am easy4me and I have been editing recently. I was blocked and was not really given a fair reason. I don't feel like I have been editing in an irresponsible way. Plus, the user who blocked me had never listed a complaint to me before and I think that's completely unfair, especially blocking me for 3 MONTHS! Guest (talk) 02:18, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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06 July 2016

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Easy4me was blocked for abuse of editing privileges on 4 July. Both IP editors began editing film articles on 5 July. Easy4me and the IP editors all use the same idiosyncratic edit summaries and edit similar articles:

In each grouping, the edits match up to the same articles. There are other gnome edits with the same edit summaries to the same articles, but these are representative. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:04, 6 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I've anon only blocked 68.33.88.0/21 for 2 weeks. Mike V • Talk 22:38, 11 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

13 July 2016

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In a previous SPI investigation, 68.33.88.0/21 was range blocked for two weeks on July 11 for block evasion by Easy4me. On the same day, Checkitout18 took up Easy4me's habitual updating of film grosses and aggregator scores. In each of these example pairings, the same gnomish edit is made to the same article with the same edit summary: The Purge: Election Year (Easy4me, Checkitout18), The BFG (2016 film) (Easy4me, Checkitout18), Independence Day: Resurgence (Easy4me, Checkitout18), The Shallows (film) (Easy4me, Checkitout18), Love & Friendship (Easy4me, Checkitout18), Florence Foster Jenkins (film) (Easy4me, Checkitout18). NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:49, 13 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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 Confirmed, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:21, 14 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

27 August 2016

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In a 2014 SPI case, Easy4me admitted to block evasion as 71.200.117.25 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) to make gnomish edits. 71.200.56.214, another IP on this range, then took up the same editing as Easy4me after his 2016 block. For example: [1] and [2] from July, in which he uses the same habitual, idiosyncratic edit summaries as Easy4me ([3], [4]). In August 2016, the IP became active again and, though it avoids using the same exact edit summaries, the edits are the same ([5], [6]). I can provide more diffs on request, but I think it's kind of a duck case. The editor interaction utility shows a pretty strong overlap in articles edited, and the diffs show that the same gnomish edits are being made as Easy4me. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 01:03, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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07 September 2016

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Same ritualistic edits as Easy4me:

Note also how File:Arrival, Movie Poster.jpg and File:Mechanic Resurrection poster.jpg both have the same edit summary: "new poster". For normal editing, he seems to have stopped using edit summaries altogether after I identified a sock who was using slightly altered edit summaries in the previous SPI report. The behavior and articles edited are exactly the same, however. What are the chances that some random, new editor would appear days after Easy4me's latest IP sock is blocked, edit the same articles as Easy4me, and make the same ritualistic tweaks to the infobox/reviews? NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 05:18, 7 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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14 November 2016

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Easy4me was blocked for disruptive editing, mostly to film budgets. This IP has continued the same disruption and geolocates to the same city as Easy4me's other IP socks. Traditional behavior is for an account to add a budget, then repeatedly return to the article, using socks if necessary, to update the reviews, gross, and occasionally fuss over over the budget.

68.33.88.0/21 is blocked for six months because Easy4me was using it to make disruptive edits. Wikijunkie234 is a blocked sock. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 23:51, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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01 January 2017

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I think the sock is active again and he does not seem to rest. Again almost same pattern of editing on Cinema of Bangladesh, Shakib Khan, Shikari (2016 film), Niyoti, List of Bangladeshi films of 2016, List of highest grossing Bangladeshi films, Chandragrohon etc.- Umair Aj (talk) 19:35, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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24 January 2017

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User updates gross of films w/o sources or edit summaries. Both Ikoiko246 and recent sock Worwicstudent2 have received similar warnings for disruption to song-related articles: [7] [8], and the editor interaction analyser is very telling. This edit, this edit, and this edit are all formatted the same way. Sro23 (talk) 06:49, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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information Administrator note Yes, this one had obviously been on my radar for a while, and it was getting increasingly harder to ignore the obvious socking. Blocked. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 07:15, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

30 September 2019

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Appears this sock farm isn't quite dead yet. Overlaps with WMF here, here, here and excessive overlap here. recreated Premi O Premi as Draft:Premi O Premi and interestingly enough, nearly every single edit of Jar's overlaps not only with WMF but Masum_Ibn_Musa and Mar11. Worth noting that Jar registered on January 1 2017, the same exact day that WMF was blocked. Praxidicae (talk) 15:20, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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