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I have three main reasons to suspect that IP 2a00[…]3311 is Autumnking2012’s puppet. Based on their edits at this article: Troubled Blood

1) They both are pushing, tenaciously, very specific and quite strange changes to the article, using the same arguments. They are asking for the removal, from the plot summary, of any mention to a specific character that was widely publicized by the media. The name of this character and part of his history were mentioned by The Wall Street Journal; The Telegraph; Vanity Fair; The Spectator; The Independent; USA Today; etc… Still they claim is “undue weight” to mention him because one reviewer from The Guardian didn’t mentioned him.  (look at these edit summaries: diff1, diff2)

2) 2a00[…]3311 suddenly started to edit the article, very passionately and out of the blue, just one hour after I reverted one of Autumnking2012’s edits.

3) They are operating at a very close time-range, sometimes with less than a minute of difference but ALWAYS reverting any changes back to Autumnking2012’s preferred versions. If you take a look at 2a00[…]3311 edit history, you’ll notice that that appears to be their only duty here (and those edits are in the same time-range of Autumnking2012’s time habits and current interest in that particular article.

For example, look at this timing:


 * 11:55, 16 September 2020 ꟷ 2a00[…]3311 reverts InterestGather’s edit which slightly changed Autumnking2012’s version.


 * 11:55, 16 September 2020‎ ꟷ Autumnking2012 starts adding text to the article.

But what really raised my suspicion was this:


 * 12:57, 16 September 2020‎ ꟷ I reverted one of Autumnking2012’s edits


 * 12:58, 16 September 2020 ꟷ I reverted one of 2a00[…]3311’s edits


 * 13:26, 16 September 2020‎ ꟷ 2a00[…]3311’s reverts me


 * 13:26, 16 September 2020 ꟷ ‎ Autumnking2012 reverts me

That’s right, they both appeared at the exact same minute to revert two of my edits. That doesn’t look like a coincidence. -  (talk)  16:32, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * Actually, both of them appearing in the same minute makes it less likely that they're working together - you'd be hard-pressed to make both of those edit summaries in less than a minute. It's possible that they know each other or are otherwise collaborating, but I don't see strong enough evidence to prove meatpuppetry. Closing without action. GeneralNotability (talk) 18:29, 16 September 2020 (UTC)