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:Understood. I will definitely employ page protection in the future in case HB continues his hounding, and I understand that it's easier than filing a SPI. Thank you once again. [[User:Southasianhistorian8|Southasianhistorian8]] ([[User talk:Southasianhistorian8|talk]]) 22:49, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

:: To be clear: page protection is not an alternative to SPI. While the latter is an effort to identify and block socks, the former is an effort to prevent disruption at an article by ''future'' sock accounts. Page protection makes it less fruitful for sockmasters like HB to divide their editing among dozens of essentially throwaway accounts; the accounts instead have to build up enough of an editing history, which both makes it easier to identify behavioral patterns and is a greater loss of effort for the sockmaster if the account is blocked. But admins will apply page-protection only to articles which already have a history of being targeted by previously identified sockaccounts and not merely because an editor believes that some currently unblocked account is a sock. Cheers. [[User:Abecedare|Abecedare]] ([[User talk:Abecedare#top|talk]]) 23:07, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

== A brownie for you! ==