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29 November 2011

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Articles for deletion/Commitment ordering, Articles for deletion/ERROL, Articles for deletion/Reshaped relational algebra, and Articles for deletion/Yoav Raz. I initially assumed these to be meatpuppets, but their behaviour is becoming strikingly similar. —Ruud 23:50, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

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 * - My instincts say meatpuppetry, but I'll endorse to confirm that. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:16, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
 * . Please provide diffs. I can't just accept "their behaviour is similar" without seeing some of that evidence myself. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 11:04, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Both accounts work same small set of articles related to the work of Yoav Raz.
 * Both have similar editing patterns (making several small edits to an article, often without summary, then disappearing for a few days). Account activity seems to be nicely interleaved.
 * Both communicate with the same, at times slightly broken, English (see AfDs listed above).
 * Both are filibustering at the AfDs.
 * Both have at times used similar argumentations, e.g. "The article uses the legitimate Inline parenthetical referencing. See Citing sources."
 * This is mostly a combination of their behaviour taken as a whole and gut instinct and difficult to capture in a few specific diffs. The AfD discussions listed above are more convincing when read in their entirety. —Ruud 11:41, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the evidence. Is there any evidence specifically of abuse of multiple accounts, though? They do not seem to have ever edited the same AfD pages. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 13:02, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Not in any AfD discussions, but given that they do edit in the same articles this would in my opinion be beyond the legitimate use of an alternative account. It's confusing for other editors, especially given the neutrality and conflict of interest issues that have been raised here.—Ruud 14:11, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I checked their edits for the last few months and saw no common articles between the two. Can you please provide diffs to show me what I'm missing? --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 10:20, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Both edited ERROL . This and the other articles (Reshaped relational algebra [deleted], Commitment ordering and History of commitment ordering [deleted]) pertain to the academic work of Yoav Raz [deleted] and are therefore closely related. —Ruud 12:43, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I would have been as lost as Deskana with this, but with the clarification from Ruud, the behavioural connection is more clear. and now   AGK   [&bull; ]  15:39, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * The two accounts and also are ✅. I indeffed all three, without prejudice to unblocking one if the user consents to edit from a single account in future.  AGK   [&bull; ]  15:42, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

20 December 2011

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Editing centered on the page Commitment ordering, including: changing the importance from low to high; similar phrasing of arguments (see Talk:Commitment ordering); removal of neutrality tags on related sections of other pages Stuartyeates (talk) 18:05, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked the IP for a week. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 04:15, 21 December 2011 (UTC)