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User:Alansin2 began adding references to range of medical articles on 15 August, often edit summary used was "reference added". References appear to be the works of Gaetano Santulli of Columbia University. I first reverted at 21.32 on 18 August as the article added didn't appear to support the statement in the lead. Other editors also began to revert instances that appeared to be ref spamming. A University of Columbia IP address was then used to make 27 edits within a 20 minute period, which all reinstate these references, without any explanation given in the edit summary. A selection of edits by Alansin2 here: Coronary stent, Endoplasmic reticulum, Endothelial dysfunction, Mir-126 And corresponding IP edits: Endoplasmic reticulum, Endothelial dysfunction, Mir-126, Coronary stent 1,Coronary stent 2. Drchriswilliams (talk) 21:37, 18 August 2016 (UTC) Drchriswilliams (talk) 21:37, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

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 * Interestingly enough there is a lot of overlap between the edits of the two, perhaps most notably on august 18th, the microRNA, both made multiple edits within hours of each other, which is weird considering they both made at least two edits, (alansin2 made 3) within hours of each other, despite statistics saying that the mean time between edits on the page is 4.3 days. Iazyges (talk) 22:23, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

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 * This is quite an obvious case of socking, and is also clearly a sock. Master and account sock blocked indefinitely. I'm leaping straight to indef since this is just such obvious unrepentant socking and edit warring. Wether spamming or not, this user will have to show at least some intent to collaborate before they should be allowed to edit again. Someguy1221 (talk) 02:32, 13 September 2016 (UTC)