Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Asian elephant/Archive

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Going by WP:SIGNS, both accounts were created on the same day, both have identical user pages, both are named after animals, both utilise a similar editing style of making about 30 edits, 1 sentence at a time, and both of them have edited the exact same, small list of articles. And, to illustrate an example, Asianelephant made a series of edits to ASMI, which looked like this when he was done: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ASMI&oldid=1003090558

I made a series of changes, and Neelgai promptly reverted, and made a large chunk of edits himself, now the current revision, which looked like this when he was done: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ASMI&oldid=1003282241, which looks basically identical to how it was before I'd touched it, reinstating the various mistakes, alongside the references from the same sources that are used multiple times. I don't suppose there's a huge amount of ambiguity here, it's just not plausible that two separate people just happened to make a Wikipedia account on the exact same day and thenceforth edit the exact same articles in the exact same way. Loafiewa (talk) 11:31, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

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 * The accounts are ✅. I can't understand what the purpose of using these two accounts to edit the same articles could be, but I'm not super impressed by this user page. -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 22:53, 29 January 2021 (UTC)


 * The SandDoctor Talk 04:06, 30 January 2021 (UTC)