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The propinquity of identical edits (61.165.109.27 - @  13:58, 3 January 2018‎; 218.255.243.154 -  @  23:11, 5 January 2018) which remove commonsensical information from an article topic that is of relative significance by two rarely-used accounts that originate from the same political entity. Wingwraith (talk) 05:29, 6 January 2018 (UTC) Wingwraith (talk) 05:29, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Update: The propinquity of nearly-identical edits by 223.104.107.157 ( @ 12:02, 7 January 2018) and JosephHeinrich ( @  22:12, 7 January 2018) with the aforementioned edit by 218.255.243.154 that attempt to remove the same commonsensical information through the same medium and, like the 61.165.109.27 and 218.255.243.154 IP accounts, are rarely-used and geolocate to the same political entity. Wingwraith (talk) 05:29, 6 January 2018 (UTC) Wingwraith (talk) 05:29, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

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Well, you'll have to forgive me for this bad formatting as I am not so experienced with Wikipedia editing. The rationale behind my edit was as follows: I thought (wrongly) that I could help by carrying out what I thought was established on the Korean Workers' Paty's talk page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Workers%27_Party_of_Korea). Under the "left/right" section, it says "Rather than continue an edit war about the party's "political position" in the infobox, and restart an argument that dates back years, maybe we should leave it out. It is not included for every political party, for example Communist Party of China, Communist Party of Vietnam etc. We do have a section on "ideology" which covers this." It appeared to me that this had been violated, along with the part under the "left wing/far left" section on the CPC's talk page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Communist_Party_of_China). Evidently, this other user thought something similar and made a similar edit. - User:Nolan1213  —Preceding undated comment added 10:00, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

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 * Note that very similar edits have also been made by Lescandinave, 42.61.213.24, and Nolan1213. While it's possible we have socks here, it could be a case of multiple independent editors sharing a common philosophy that considers the labels "far left" and "left wing" to be POV / objectionable.  Note, too, that Lescandinave used an edit summary of "source" — presumably insisting on a cited source for these labels.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 06:36, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * There appears to be a content dispute at Communist Party of China on this matter, involving at least three different editors, and very likely more (see the talk page discussion at ). I therefore believe it is far more likely that what we have here is a case of multi-user edit warring, and not sockpuppetry.  On this basis, I'm going to close this SPI without taking any action against the alleged sockmaster or sockpuppets.  If someone can find more solid evidence that this is really WP:DUCK, as opposed to a flock of separate individual ducks, by all means feel free to ask for a reopening of the SPI with better evidence.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 04:44, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ongoing content dispute involving shared viewpoint of multiple editors — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 04:45, 8 January 2018 (UTC)