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I have noticed increased and unusual activity surrounding United States states' political parties wikipedia pages, specifically the Ideologies part of the infobox. The three Sockpuppets have all showed tendencies of manipulating the Ideologies insert of various U.S. political parties.

2600:1700:7A51:10B0:F0AD:723C:E915:D034 & 108.252.124.176 are contesting Ideologies of these political parties because they do not have citations. Yet, I noticed that the Ideologies infobox section does not have citations on several of U.S. political parties as it is not needed I think, so I find the motive to go after these bits of info to be tedious and unusual.

If you go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Colorado_Democratic_Party, this is where it all started. My most recent comment on the Talk Page points out the unusual and identical behavior among the two users.

2600:1700:7A51:10B0:5008:583A:BE11:5D41 creates the talk page yet 2600:1700:7A51:10B0:F0AD:723C:E915:D034 messages me about. And 108.252.124.176 reverts my edit using the exact same message using identical words to convey the message the same way as well. The following are examples from the "view history" tab and the Talk Page of the Colorado Democratic Party:

History Tab: 108.252.124.176 - "Colorado Democratic Party Platform does not mention ideology. Any attempt to construe their ideology from this primary source would violate WP:NOR."

Talk Page: 2600:1700:7A51:10B0:F0AD:723C:E915:D034 - "Finally, the Colorado Democratic Party Platform does not mention ideology. Any attempt to construe their ideology from this primary source would violate WP:NOR..."

The sentences in bold are exact and are coming from 2 different IP addresses. They have also teamed up to manipulate consensus on U.S. political party talk pages to remove Ideologies from the pages.

And for 76.107.240.93, I am not sure definitively whether they are ran by the same person/s but it is highly unusual to have a IP address just effectuated with U.S. political parties and contorting them. And these IP addresses have edited during the same time as well.

I have also warned the user Meters about this and he stated he will look into this tomorrow.

Lastly, I believe CheckUser will come in handy due to its abilities and showing which accounts and which IPs are connected or used. Aviartm (talk) 06:24, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - This is not what CheckUser is for. Tools available to anyone show that special:contribs/108.252.124.176 and special:contribs/2600:1700:7A51:10B0::/64 could be the same, but the other IP address is located thousands of miles away. —DoRD (talk)​ 12:16, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * First, as DoRD said, 76.107 is likely unrelated. Furthermore, while using a dynamic IP to evade a block or other sanctions is actionable, simply having one is not. I'm not particularly impressed by either of you reporting each other to various unrelated administrative venues to try to get the upper hand in an edit war. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:04, 29 March 2019 (UTC)