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15 July 2013

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Both Carringtonb and 88RIK are single purpose accounts whose editing has almost only been to add similar positive material to and remove critical material from articles concerning the leaders of the political consultancy firm Crosby Textor, which is headed by Lynton Crosby and Mark Textor (as examples: Carringtonb:, , , and  88RIK:  - note that 88RIK was only active for a few days before suddenly re-appearing and has made few edits). Their recent editing is indistinguishable: in the Lynton Crosby article they've conducted the same reverts to remove some much-reported criticisms of Mr Crosby which are currently in the British media. Carringtonb's reverts are (note multiple diffs),,  and 88RIK has followed up with the identical  and. I note that the reverts by the 88RIK account - which hadn't made any contributions for about three weeks after their only brief period of initial activity - means that the Carringtonb account avoids a 3RR violation, so I suspect that this is the same person running both accounts.

I'm not sure if checkuser is needed given that the WP:DUCK connection seems clear to me, but it may be helpful to check for sleepers given that the Mark Textor article has attracted multiple single-purpose accounts. Nick-D (talk) 10:18, 15 July 2013 (UTC) Nick-D (talk) 10:18, 15 July 2013 (UTC)


 * (who I've just blocked for a user name violation and accusing editors of defaming Mr Textor and Mr Crosby) seems likely to also be related given that their editing history and style is very similar to Carringtonb's. This account was created after both the other accounts were blocked for edit warring, and has continued the same kind of editing so I presume that it was an attempt to evade the block. Nick-D (talk) 08:40, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * -  Basa lisk  inspect damage⁄berate 11:31, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * There are two groups operating from two different continents.
 * Group 1:
 * Group 2:
 * I can't go into details, but there is no doubt that the groups are related. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:23, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged the other account. Closing; come back if there are further problems. Basa lisk  inspect damage⁄berate 15:36, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I can't go into details, but there is no doubt that the groups are related. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:23, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged the other account. Closing; come back if there are further problems. Basa lisk  inspect damage⁄berate 15:36, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I can't go into details, but there is no doubt that the groups are related. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:23, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged the other account. Closing; come back if there are further problems. Basa lisk  inspect damage⁄berate 15:36, 16 July 2013 (UTC)