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Special:Contributions/74.193.153.122 went on a prolific editing session today, focussed on expanding the "history" section of three college football teams:


 * Stanford Cardinal football‎
 * Arizona State Sun Devils football‎
 * Utah Utes football

Their edits indicated significant familiarity with Wiki such as use of section headers, citations, and such. The level of interest and depth shown in editing in these three articles is highly unusual in the CFB project. I and others flagged their Talk for multiple issues (welcome, lack of edit summaries, creation of unsourced content) which they blanked, twice.

This editing resulted in a one month block by User:Materialscientist at 00:23, 10 December 2016.

Materialscientist then rolled back the IP's edits on Utah Utes football at 00:25, 10 December 2016.

Special:Contributions/Nomad3919 (with 43 edits all-time) then appeared after a 3 week absence and with their first new edit re-added the removed content at 00:56, 10 December 2016 (30 mins later).

Nomad3919 then initiated a prolonged and high-count editing session on Texas State Bobcats football, also focused on the early history of that CFB article and without use of edit summaries.

It would be an incredible coincidence for Nomad3919 not to be the blocked 74.193.153.122 based on the CFB content, area of focus (history in particular), style (including no edit summaries), frequency/edit counts over a short period, and obvious familiarity with the mechanics of article updates.

Lastly (last discovered, but most obvious), the Jim Carmody article was created by Nomad3919 with 14 consecutive edits and then followed eight minutes later by 26 edits from 74.193.153.122. Pretty clearly that is one single user behind all 40 edits. UW Dawgs (talk) 03:46, 10 December 2016 (UTC) UW Dawgs (talk) 03:46, 10 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Adding Special:Contributions/Ajc7755. wmflabs.org shows eight consecutive edits from 74.193.153.122 to Utah Utes football followed 36 mins later with the next edit by Ajc7755. Special:Contributions/Ajc7755 shows the same pattern of high-frequency editing to Kansas State Wildcats football. UW Dawgs (talk) 04:03, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

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Despite the instructions at WP:SPI, this case was incorrectly opened. It should be moved to Ajc7755 if there's any merit to the allegations.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:53, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  00:32, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
 * - PLease, compare those two accounts.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  00:35, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
 * - Katietalk 02:02, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
 * The two registered accounts are ❌ - different UAs, different geolocations. No comment on the IP address. Katietalk 02:10, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  07:31, 15 December 2016 (UTC)