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As Callum Sannachan, the user's very first edit on January 3, 2017, was to prematurely add a season 15 row to Strictly Come Dancing, though the edit was reverted a minute later. The remaining two edits the following day to the same article were to switch the entries for two of the professional dancers on the show, Anton DuBeke and Brendan Cole, two acts of vandalism here and here.

As Callum r Sannachan, several edits to the same article on January 7, 2017, continued the attempts to swap DuBeke and Cole info here, here, and here. In addition, similar swaps were made that same day in the Strictly Come Dancing (series 12) article, including this one. The next set were to the original article on January 28, though these just involved prematurely adding information, some of it made up, about Series 15 (which is not expected to start airing until September 2017); it was posted and then half an hour later imperfectly removed; this edit is identical to the very first edit above under Callum Sannachan. The last set of edits on January 31 added Gary Edwards to the list of judges in the infobox, and a minute later replaced him with Karen Hardy (neither of whom have been a judge nor are yet confirmed to be a new judge). The final edit that day was to the user's talk page in a rather incoherent response to my most recent template here.

As Callum r s Sannachan, many edits to the original article have added information prematurely about Series 15, starting on February 3, 2017, including additions of supposed contestants, another attempt to add Gary Edwards as a new judge, and so on. The user's second edit, on February 2, was to Callum r Sannachan's talk page, asking me to "please stop pick on my brother".

Although almost exclusively editing Strictly-related articles, both Callum r Sannachan and Callum r s Sannachan have edited the "Episodes" section of Doctor Who (series 10), practically the only non-Strictly article either has edited, which makes it even more likely that they are the same person. Their writing on their talk pages looks the same to me. I don't know whether CheckUser is necessary here, but given the claim that they are brothers rather than the same editor, there seems to me to be an attempt to deceive, even if the account usage has, so far, been serial. They would have been given at least one block by now, if not more, had these edits been made by a single account. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:12, 8 February 2017 (UTC) BlueMoonset (talk) 03:12, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

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 * -  Ks0stm  (T•C•G•E) 13:08, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
 * All ✅. Ks0stm  (T•C•G•E) 13:21, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing. GABgab 15:04, 10 February 2017 (UTC)