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Userpage of blocked sockpuppet remains untagged

Hello Vanja; I hope you are doing well. Can you please tag the userpage of the indefinitely blocked sockpuppet Lumbarschen, per WP:SOCKTAG? It appears both you and EdJohnston – whom I also notified (here) prior to the archiving of the case (diff) – forgot it. Thanks in advance for your time. Demetrios1993 (talk) 01:45, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

@Demetrios1993: Tagging is not always needed per WP:DENY. Why do you think it is necessary in this particular case? Vanjagenije (talk) 23:27, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the response Vanja. I don't know if you have an older revision of WP:DENY in mind (I didn't check earlier ones), but the only relevant text I see is the following:

• In general, "socktags" on blocked sockpuppets' user pages should only be added, removed, or modified by administrators or sockpuppet investigations clerks.

The relevant template {{sockpuppet}} gives the same reasonable guideline:

• Usage: In general, this template should only be applied by Administrators or Clerks as part of the Sockpuppet investigations process.

Regardless of that, even if the former did suggest cases which would deem the use of the aforementioned template unnecessary, shouldn't the common established procedures presented in WP:SPI/AI take precedence over an essay such as WP:DENY? To be honest, I thought it was a given to tag the userpages of indefinitely blocked sockpuppets, which also adds them to the – certainly useful for future investigations – "confirmed" and "suspected" categories.

On another note, shouldn't the remaining text from the already closed and archived 17 September 2024 case in Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/GJOLEKA, be either deleted or archived appropriately? It appears that it was unnecessarily copied from the Wikipedia talk namespace to the Wikipedia namespace (diff).

Thanks again for your time. Demetrios1993 (talk) 19:54, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

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