I saw the close at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/LGTteam. I am still inquiring on the new account's talk page, since you mentioned there may still be a connection. TornadoLGS (talk) 18:55, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It seems possible, since they've come along one after the other, but there's no kind of technical connection beyond 'they are in different parts of the same very large country'. To be clear, I don't take the original account's assertion that they are the subject of that article at face value - it could easily be a fan, or for all I know it's an LTA looking to cause trouble (I've seen socks do some very strange things). That being said, if it genuinely is the subject, and they were blocked from editing their article, it would not be beyond the realms of possibility that they have engaged the services of a marketing professional or similar to attempt to do the same thing. With only two edits so far, one of them to the talk page, I don't see the urgent need for further action, but if you want to try to engage with them and keep an eye on it that sounds good. Girth Summit _(blether) 20:47, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy holidays and a prosperous 2026!

Unfortunately, despite now being a CheckUser, I am neither a cheque user nor a Czech user. I'm quite glad that I get to serve alongside someone who doesn't find the tool super duper scary. Hopefully by the end of our terms I will be competent with it! We shall see. Anyways, I greatly look forward to serving with you on ArbCom, and all the best for you and yours this holiday season and in 2026!

Girth Sockit is probably my favorite alt account name :)

HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 23:35, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks HB. I guess we'll find out what we've let ourselves in for soon enough. Happy holidays to you and yours. Girth Summit _(blether) 16:54, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, Girth, how are you? I happened to notice an indef-blocked notice on this user's user-page, but note that he/she isn't actually indeffed. An oversight, perhaps? Anyway, all the best for the imminent new year! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:36, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oops - yes, obviously forgot to check a box on the SPI helper dialog or something - thanks for noticing! I'll go and remedy that. Happy new year to you when it comes. Girth Summit _(blether) 18:44, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Figured it out - they were already partially blocked, and I didn't tick the block to override the existing block. Must have failed to notice the error message. Hopefully now fixed. Thanks again for spotting it. Girth Summit _(blether) 18:49, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter Issue 213 – January 2026 December issue Got any suggestions? — Add them here Project News Welcome to the 213th WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter. Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WikiProject Yorkshire has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 21,237 last month to 21,304 on 5 January 2026). In the area of GAs WikiProject Yorkshire at 241 is ahead of WikiProject Greater Manchester who have 88. WikiProject Yorkshire also has the lead in FAs at 99 while WikiProject Greater Manchester has 64 out of a total number of 5,408 articles. Currently we have 82 Yorkshire featured articles: George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (archbishop of York) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • HMS Endeavour • Cosmo Gordon Lang • Thomas of Bayeux • Cottingley Fairies • Wilfred Rhodes • Guy Fawkes • Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927 • Roy Kilner • George Macaulay • Frederick Delius • Battle of Towton • Halifax Gibbet • Gerard (archbishop of York) • George Hirst • Geoffrey (archbishop of York) • Len Hutton • Hedley Verity • Abe Waddington • Bobby Peel • Æthelwold ætheling • Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball • The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished • The Wrestlers (Etty) • Bootham Crescent • History of York City F.C. (1922–1980) • William Etty • History of York City F.C. 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Article Activity Charlotte Brontë nominated for GA on 30 November 2025 Dredge (video game) nominated for GA on 30 November 2025 Dredge (video game) promoted to GA on 5 December 2025 Member News There are 104 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! No new members have joined us since the December newsletter. Assessment Assess and review As of 29 December 2025, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner. (Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however) Aims After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008. Specific aims for the project are:- To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See Assessment) To recruit more active editors (See Member News) To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members Priority Articles The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows - Bradford • Doncaster • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • Northern England • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first. Happy New Year Hsppy New Year to all members of the project. WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project The January 2026 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page. Month Dates Article(s) B class choice Start class choice 188 1 Aug 2025 ~ 31 Aug 2025 The Cottingley Cuckoo Vintage Guitars 189 1 Sep 2025 ~ 30 Sep 2025 Downton Abbey Woodhouse Moor 190 1 Oct 2025 ~ 31 Oct 2025 Alfred Edwards (politician) X2 (video game) 191 1 Nov 2025 ~ 30 Nov 2025 Farndale Yorkshire Traction 192 1 Dec 2025 ~ 31 Dec 2025 Geology of Yorkshire Zetland (lifeboat) 193 1 Jan 2026 ~ 31 Jan 2026 Hebden Bridge railway station Acklam Park Please nominate future articles for improvement at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire. Please bear in mind... The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis, usually on a Tuesday. 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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2025).

Administrator changes

• Epicgenius
• Left guide
• LEvalyn
• MPGuy2824
• The4lines
• Yue

Fathoms Below

• BaronLarf
• Firefly
• kelapstick
• Opabinia regalis
• Pbsouthwood
• Sethant
• UtherSRG
• Whouk

CheckUser changes

• Giraffer
• HouseBlaster
• SilverLocust

• Liz
• Worm That Turned
• Z1720

Oversight changes

• Asilvering
• Giraffer
• Girth Summit
• Guerillero
• HouseBlaster
• Izno
• SilverLocust

• Liz
• Worm That Turned
• Z1720

Guideline and policy news

• All general sanctions imposed by the community may now be enforced at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard (WP:AE) as a result of a recent RfC.
• Due to the result of a recent RFC, the administrator recall process is amended to extend the deadline for a re-request for adminship to 30 days or the next administrator election, whichever is later.
• Changes to the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy's disclosure rules include broadening the consecutive-blocks exception to cover all admin actions and removing the requirement to revision-delete permissible disclosures once they become unnecessary (instead requiring only their removal). See WP:TAIVDISCLOSE for more information.

Arbitration

• Following the 2025 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Asilvering, Girth Summit, Guerillero, HJ Mitchell, HouseBlaster, Izno, Sdrqaz, SilverLocust.
• The arbitration case Pbsouthwood has been suspended.

Congratulations on your election and for all your past help! Chaipau (talk) 19:48, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Recently had some edit warring across 5 different articles and two accounts very obviously linked to eachother, being Frogger-Leap, followed by Kick-Evil User. As a result, I created Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Frogger-Leap.

However, now looking at both those accounts, they are now both globally locked, supposedly as being LTA/socks of PawPatroler. Are Frogger-Leap and Kick-Evil User indeed part of PawPatroler, and if so, should that SPI be merged into Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/PawPatroler? I originally thought that Frogger-Leap might've been the master, but looks like that might not be the case?... Magitroopa (talk) 02:25, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]