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AINH was created years ago and started becoming more active in late 2018-early 2019. ChongTsz started edits in August 2020.

In the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (shortened as LegCo) article, the infobox which list the factions present have long been the Pro-Beijing, Pro-Democracy, and the minor Localist factions. Recently, a user by ChongTsz have changed the sidebar to remove and replace Localist with Constitutionalist instead.

I investigated why Localist was replaced with Constitutionalist and I found that it was not a renaming of an article but instead an entirely new article. I found that the change in the LegCo article and the creation of this article was done by the same user, ChongTsz. The article is problematic and only features one source in the references list. For this reason, I suspect many other users (including myself) do not trust the validity of this change and thus, constantly restore the LegCo page so that the Localist faction remains instead of it saying Constitutionalist.

You can see that multiple attempts to replace Localist with Constitutionalist was made by ChongTsz. Considering that the article and this change is what ChongTsz wants, it is reasonable that this user is pushing for those edits to remain and not be reverted. However, you can also see later on that a user by AINH is also pushing for the same changes to remain. No other user accounts are making the changes in the LegCo article to replace Localist with Constitutionalist other than the two user accounts in question.

Here is the list of all the links of both AINH and CHongTsz making the same edits despite being reverted. They are all happening recently, after the first attempt by ChongTsz, all making the same argument:
 * (ChongTsz)
 * (ChongTsz)
 * (AINH)
 * (AINH)
 * (ChongTsz)
 * (ChongTsz -In this one the user says there's no such thing in the media and despite the Localist article being better sourced than the one-source Constitutionalist article, ChongTsz still makes this edit.)
 * (AINH)
 * (AINH)
 * (AINH)
 * (AINH)

As a corollary, I believe that there's a series of edits made where it may be in violation of WP:3RR.

- boldblazer (talk) 01:24, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Certainly the edit warring on Legislative Council of Hong Kong looks socky, but I don't see any other significant commonalities between these two accounts. The time cards look different, the edit summary styles look different, one often uses mobile, the other not.  My inclination is to close this with no action taken, but I'd appreciate a second opinion on that.  One thought I had was that ECP could stop the edit war, but it looks like there's a lot of legitimate IP editing there, so I think that would be unwise. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:26, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Concur with RoySmith. As always, it's possible that they know each other or were both brought to the page by some off-wiki trigger, but I do not see anything more than a shared POV here. Closing without action. GeneralNotability (talk) 19:54, 23 November 2020 (UTC)