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24 March 2014

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Both recently took part in an edit war at Are You Experienced. I suspected at the time that the perpetrator was User:AstroMan67 or User:GabeMc, as it restored "their" version of the article. I suppose it could also have been User:Dan56 or User:STATicVapor who were also participating in the edit war. When I asked Astroman67 about the edit they denied it. There will need to be a separate dispute resolution process to deal with the underlying issues, but meantime I thought it might clear the air to find out which editor did this because it did not feel like a coincidence, and it exacerbated the edit war to the point where I had to protect the article for a while. Would that be possible? John (talk) 22:57, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

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 * Not sure why either I or would revert our own edits using a different account. Also, when I originally brought this to John's attention, I mentioned how  may have been involved as the sock's owner  Dan56 (talk) 23:07, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reminding me of that. I know CU isn't for fishing expeditions but I am as sure as anything that this was no coincidence. Somebody logged out and continued the war. Who was it? --John (talk) 23:12, 24 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Could have been Rvd4life as Astroman, then logging out, etc. But you're absolutely right--an IP's first edit there? Dan56 (talk) 23:25, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
 * So, if you were a CU you would violate Rvd4life's privacy based on one edit from one IP? GabeMc  (talk&#124;contribs)  23:48, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

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 * - and we also cannot connect IPs to accounts in public at SPI Rschen7754 04:07, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Looks like it probably was AstroMan67, but without further very recent abuse or something blatantly obvious. Closing this SPI with no action. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 03:13, 27 March 2014 (UTC)