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On 9 September 2019, Anthony22 was topic banned as a result of an AN/I discussion : "Anthony22 is indefinitely topic banned by the community from making stylistic and grammatical changes, broadly construed, to any article on English Wikipedia. They may add information which is supported by a citation from a reliable source, and may delete information currently in an article if they think it is incorrect, inaccurate, or not properly sourced, but must immediately follow up any such edit with an explanation for the deletion on the article talk page." During that discussion, Anthony22 commented on how easy to would be to edit to avoid the ban via sockpuppetry. He repeated this, even more strongly, on his talk page after he had been sanctioned: "Topic bans and blocks can very easily be circumvented. A person can use the account of a family member, co-worker, friend, schoolmate, or another person to continue editing. If I were to continue editing in this fashion, you could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that I am the culprit. As I said before, I have made many constructive edits that were reverted by silly people. The classic example of this is my upload of the photograph of Billie Burke's gravesite. The original photograph was excellent; somebody modified and blurred the original image with a new image. I re-inserted the original image but that edit was reverted. THE ORIGINAL IMAGE WAS MUCH BETTER. I must admit that I don't understand why I have wasted so much time and effort making good edits that were reverted. Wikipedia articles are poorly written with terrible grammar, syntax, sentence structuring, chronology, and punctuation. To use a classic analogy, too many chefs spoil the soup, and some of the chefs don't even know how to boil water."

Anthony22 has not made an edit since 18 September. 

One of the article which Anthony22 has frequently edited is Marilyn Monroe, to which he has 475 edits, making him the #2 editor of the page by number of edits,.

Jennablurrs7575 is an account which has been open since 20 January 2019. They often edit articles about film stars,, but until yesterday, they had never edited Marilyn Monroe. Their edits to that article yesterday are very similar to the kind of edits that Anthony22 used to make on articles, which eventually got him sanctioned: stylistic and grammatical changes which are unnecessary or not improvements. (Most of these edits were undone by another editor, which is often the case with Anthony22's editing.)

It seems to me very possible that Anthony22 carried through on his threat and "borrowed" the Jennablurrs7575 account from a friend or relative, or even that the account has always been his. Their overlaps might support this, although the articles are all in the category of film stars, and could simply represent a common interest.

In any case, I think there is enough here to warrant a look. I have asked for CU in case the Jennablurrs7575 account belongs to Anthony22. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:47, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Insufficient evidence. First, Jenna has been editing since November 2018. Second, her edits don't strike me as similar to Anthony's, and you don't provide comparison diffs showing otherwise. Third, it is not surprising that Jenna would edit the Monroe article as she routinely edits deceased film star articles. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:03, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

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Anthony22 was issued an indefinite block in late 2019 after failing to adhere to a TBAN on copy editing. I think we are dealing with block evasion. At the time of his block, Anthony warned us that he would be able to sock from the computers of relatives. Here are areas where the editing pattern seems remarkably similar between Anthony22 and Randy49.


 * A22 took a photo of a high school football game in 2006 (File:RHS cheerleaders.JPG). Fifteen years later, R49 was able to clarify which of the two high schools hosted the game.


 * Both editors believe Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered (rather than assassinated) because he was not a high-ranking government official (R49, A22).


 * Both editors seem to have firsthand info about Natalie Trundy, including a spelling of her name not supported by RSs (R49, A22).


 * They have shared interests in Betty Broderick (A22, R49), Barry Kramer (R49, A22), and Traci Lords (A22, R49).

Thanks for taking a look. Larry Hockett (Talk) 06:40, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

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 * Within only 69 edits, Randy49 has edited 19 pages previously edited by Anthony22 . These users share a very distinctive edit summary style (obvious just from looking at their contribs pages, but as a sample: ). Between this and the evidence presented by the filer, this is a clear WP:DUCK case. - please indef Randy49. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 07:20, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * , closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 11:51, 24 December 2021 (UTC)