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Agustin6 has been editing—and more to the point, edit warring—highly controversial (and often poorly sourced) content into numerous articles related to Latin America in general and Argentina in particular. While I am aware that checkuser cannot be applied to IP addresses, I still think there is a convincing WP:DUCK case that the Buenos Aires–based IPs that have been tag-team editing in collaboration with Agustin6 cannot possibly be another like-minded user, but rather must be operated by Agustin6 himself. Here are some examples: There's quite a bit more where that came from, but I tend to think that the sheer volume of behavioral evidence goes well beyond what anyone would expect from merely "like-minded" individuals. TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 20:35, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * On 21:38, 14 February 2018, 190.195.139.159 deleted the following information sourced to the academics Peter Kornbluh and John Dinges from Operation Condor: "Kornbluh and Dinges conclude that 'The paper trail is clear: the State Department and the CIA had enough intelligence to take concrete steps to thwart Condor assassination planning. Those steps were initiated but never implemented.'" On 12:50, 15 February 2018 Bagunceiro reverted 190.195.139.159, explaining: "Restore quotation incorrectly removed as uncited." Yet on 09:01, 26 February 2018, Agustin6 reverted Bagunceiro and reinstated 190.195.139.159's deletion, offering the following rationale (in an edit deceptively marked "minor"): "erased Kornbluh and Dinges comment 'S. Dep. and CIA had intelligence to take concrete steps to thwart Condor' as doesn't makes sense with info on CIA involvement already on the article." In sum, Agustin6 appeared to be purging the more measured (albeit still critical) academic analyses of U.S. foreign policy during Operation Condor because they contradicted his own extravagant original research: In a series of edits—beginning on 06:55, 5 February 2018 and ending on 08:45, 26 February 2018 (another edit deceptively tagged as "minor")—Agustin6 had previously asserted that the entire Condor operation was "originally planned by the CIA," based on a copied-and-pasted citation to a book by J. Patrice McSherry that does not support the language added by Agustin6 as well as a lengthy footnote conflating Condor (which was initiated by the Pinochet government of Chile in 1975) with the CIA-backed assassination of the Chilean general René Schneider five years earlier. (For another egregious instance of Agustin6 deleting high-quality academic citations in favor of his own OR, see this edit.)
 * On 02:17, 6 March 2018, 190.195.139.159 changed Operation Condor's infobox to indicate that the program primarily targeted " Any kind of opponents ... mainly civilians" of the participating Latin American governments, rather than targeting communists specifically. This change was controversial enough that IVORK reverted it two minutes later; again, however, Agustin6 reinstated 190.195.139.159's edit on 07:15, 6 March 2018. 190.195.139.159 then reappeared on 06:13, 10 March 2018 to continue tinkering with the infobox where Agustin6 left off, asserting that "based on what got in common their victims, the target of Op Condor was erradicate oppositors to neoliberal policies, of no particular ideology. "
 * On 05:07, 13 March 2018, Agustin6 added lengthy, unsourced OR about Operation Condor to Domino Theory. At 08:22 that same day, 190.195.139.159 edited a different section of the same article in order to change a reference to the "Western democratic states" to "the U.S." יניב הורון reverted several recent changes on 11:40, 16 March 2018, only to have Agustin6 reinstate both sets of edits on 02:03, 18 March 2018.
 * On 02:57, 16 March 2018, 190.194.219.157 initiated a minor edit war with Nick-D over whether the Contras needed to be specifically labelled "illegal" in the lede of that article. After the two users reverted back and forth several times, 190.194.219.157 appeared to drop the issue. When Agustin6 tried his hand at editing the lead of Contras on 06:17, 21 March 2018, he notably did not reinstate the IP's identical edit, but he disingenuously removed (again, with an edit summary tagged "minor") valid information that he apparently thought was insufficiently critical of the contras on the pretext that it was "unsourced"; in fact, the lead merely summarized the sourced content in the body, and did not require additional citations.
 * On 01:36, 24 March 2018, 190.194.219.157 added a massive, resume-like list of conferences attended by Horacio Verbitsky to that article. After יניב הורון reverted it on 19:23, 24 March 2018, Agustin6 reinstated it at 19:46 that same day.
 * That 190.194.219.157 is operated by the same person as 190.195.139.159—the most likely explanation being that their IP simply changes from time to time—is obvious from the former's first edit, " resume redaction." The IPs are based in Buenos Aires; Agustin6 has stated that he was "born and lived 40 years in" Argentina, although he avoided saying where he currently resides. A behavioral connection between the IPs and Agustin6 is also evidenced by Agustin6 adding a (purely OR) section to Dirty War about the "Neoliberal policies of the Juntas" on 07:23, 12 March 2018—merely one hour after 190.195.139.159 blamed neoliberalism for Operation Condor.

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 * The account seems quite inexperienced, so I have given the master a warning about editing while logged out. Closing. Sro23 (talk) 17:47, 22 April 2018 (UTC)