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Anthony2271 was focused on removing a specific school from Port Jefferson, New York, sometimes citing first-hand knowledge and WP:OR in edit summaries. Account also shows an interest in census data, again based (incorrectly) on first-hand knowledge.[etc.]

Anthony2271 received a final warning on 24 September 2018 and stopped editing. Marty12345678 was created 26 September, and started edit warring this exact topic. This is most of their two-month edit history, and the edit summaries are pretty strange, but again indicate first-hand knowledge. The blanking on Port Jefferson persists from their last edit in November until this month. This account also edited Bowsette, which suggests an interest in video games and 4chan/reddit memes.

MaidaOfficial1 creates an account in March, and beginning editing with a video game article a few weeks later. This account also edits Remove Kebab, which is another 4chan meme.

MaidaOfficial1 resumes aggressive edit-warring to remove the school from Port Jefferson based on the same rationale and first-hand knowledge. This account also shows an interest in census data for this article. MaidaOfficial1 also edits Narcissa Wright (where I first noticed their behavior), a trans video game player who has received a lot of harassment from 4chan and similar sites.

This behavior, seemed quacking enough that I directly accused them of sock puppetry. Perhaps understandably, they denied the accusation. Grayfell (talk) 07:25, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

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 * I agree that all three accounts are operated by the same user, likely in an attempt to escape warnings on their first account and create an appearance of more support than they actually have for their changes. Due to the persistent nature of the socking, I'm going indef the master in addition to the socks. The user appears to have WP:BATTLEGROUND and WP:CIVIL issues, in addition to the insistence on removing content about a specific school. ST47 (talk) 20:54, 24 April 2019 (UTC)