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10 February 2015

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There has been a pattern of editing on the Emergency care assistant article, with the appearance of a couple of WP:SPA which have suspicious account names. I suspect that the accounts are being operated by a person who lives in the UK and who has a close connection to the ambulance service, possibly being an Emergency care assistant (ECA) him or herself. The edits have generally been centred around removing descriptions of the restrictions associated with the ECA role, removing descriptions of the ECA role being supervised, removing descriptions of tensions with other ambulance service staff (especially paramedics), removing descriptions of unwelcoming attitudes and behaviour towards the ECAs. I was previously suspicious of editing activity earlier on, but the appearance of an account mimicking my username has prompted me to formally raise these concerns.

On 22 Jan 2015 Bigdogdodd started editing, making these changes:, , , I reverted edits that had introduced significant POV changes. I made a number of edits myself to reference the article's coverage about the tension between these ambulance service roles. Then the Dr mackenzie account appeared. On 22 Jan 2015 Dr mackenzie made these edits that included a new quite a specific (unevidenced) claim about "The role is similar to the United stated 'EMT basic' however the ECA is allowed to administer pain relief unlike their American counterparts." I reverted this edit because it had involved the removal of a relevant newspaper article covering the topic A further change follows of the pattern of removing sections of reference text that describes problems with introduction of ECA role, replacing it with unreferenced POV claims about what ECAs can do. I reverted this edit as it removed secondary sources. I explained why, including placing a message on the talk page of the Dr mackenzie account. This SPA account made 2 edits on the ECA page and no further edits since the talk place message was placed On 22 Jan 2015 IP edits then followed this pattern: 86.171.59.49 made an edit  removing the same collection of referenced text, again introducing similar (but not identical) specific unreferenced claims. Another editor reverted this edit, although the IP tried to overturn this, finally leaving a comment that this was because they were challenging "untrue facts and biased opinion" A further editor reverted those changes, explaining that the original text had been referenced. On 22 Jan 2015 Bigdogdodd then reappeared, initially making some small changes, , , , On 9 February Bigdogdodd made a further small change before we again see text added to make very specific claims about administering drugs and comparisons to the United stated 'EMT basic' role, then  when this editor again removes large chunks of reference text and introduces POV. I reverted the edit that removed secondary sources and explained why, including placing a message on the talk page of Bigdogdodd. This SPA has now submitted a total of 10 edits on the ECA page. On 10 Feb 2015 an account mimicking my username appeared and made an edit that removed a specific description of ECA duties that is well-substantiated by a reference to an official recruitment page. This SPA account has only made 1 edits on the ECA page.

Drchriswilliams (talk) 09:00, 10 February 2015 (UTC) Drchriswilliams (talk) 09:00, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

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 * All blocked and tagged, IP for one week. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:27, 12 February 2015 (UTC)