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I believe that BoogieFreeman, whose account had been blocked on 30th May 2019, has created a sockpuppet account under the name of TinTinHunter. Before BoogieFreeman was blocked, I had been made aware of this user and a number of their edits, primarily those concerning the articles for the main installments, and article on the franchise itself, of Uncharted, which I am a fan of and had an interest in improving its articles from time to time. Much of BoogieFreeman's Uncharted-related edits involved (usually unnecessarily in my opinion) extending or re-wording large swathes of prose for various sub-sections, creating new sub-sections, or using questionable terminology like a game receiving "wholesale critical acclaim" or otherwise including something in the lede that conflicted with what was included in the article (when the game is sourced by Metacritic as "universal acclaim" etc). Much of the prose written was also often unsourced.

TinTinHunter's first registered edit was on 12th June 2019, almost 2 weeks after BoogieFreeman had been blocked. I have subsequently noticed that the subject of articles that both accounts had edited are very similar, for example they include those on pop culture, as well sporting personalities and association football seasons. I have linked BoogieFreeman's user contributions page (his past 50 edits) here and TinTinHunter's full list of edits (below 50) here.

My suspicions grew when I noticed in the past week that TinTinHunter had reverted large sections of the prose in the articles for Uncharted and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End to the previous edits that I know BoogieFreeman had carried out. As follows, on the 6th July 2019, TinTinHunter made the following edit here to the Uncharted article that (mostly) resulted in the restoration of a large amount of prose that BoogieFreeman had written in a large number of edits on 21st April 2019, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Another example of reverting the prose back to when another user made the same edit weeks ago, in this case concerning the lede wording of the article for Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, occurred as follows. BoogieFreeman's initial edit was made on 31st March 2019 here, with TinTinHunter's edit on 6th July 2019 here.

As a side note, I have also noticed that the grammar and brief wording of the edit summaries of both users are also very similar, which gives me greater suspicion that they are both sockpuppet accounts. Wikibenboy94 (talk) 12:51, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

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 * and closed by . Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 01:37, 26 August 2019 (UTC)