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Drmies (talk) 01:02, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Drmies, thanks for the notification! I currently can't investigate this, but I have forwarded your request to the arbcom-en mailing list. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:15, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks--I appreciate it. Drmies (talk) 01:16, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
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You had blocked this user for DE and then unblocked them after they provided an explanation for their edit. I plan to reblock them for socking; they definitely socked while they were blocked by you based on behavioral and likely CU findings, and are possibly a sock of R2dra although I haven't examined the latter claim myself. Wanted to run it by you before implementing the block just in case I am missing something.
PS: Based on what I have seen, this is a case of warring sock-farms. Don't know who, if anyone, is "correct" about the content issues. Abecedare (talk) 17:59, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Abecedare, sorry, I hadn't seen this when unblocking. Of course I'm fine with a re-block. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:18, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- I didn't spot the sockpuppetry either when I responded to their page protection reuest. :)
- Blocked now. Abecedare (talk) 21:47, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
Thanks! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:48, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
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- Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
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