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24 April 2014

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Cookiecutteramaru has been inserting the same piece of paleontological research into a number of dinosaur-related articles. When the insertion of the source was met with considerable opposition from long-term paleo editors, three new accounts popped up within hours of one another to support the original insertion. The original discussion is here and diffs of supporting new accounts can be found here:. The three new accounts have no other edits that are not in support of adding this paper.

One of the new accounts denies being a sock, and other long-term editors have suggested a checkuser is needed to find out what's going on: Instead of us continuing to argue about this, I think it would be better for an admin to give a definite answer about whether these accounts are the same person. Ferahgo the Assassin (talk) 22:31, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅
 * based on technical evidence only, is a  sock.  Salvio Let's talk about it! 09:39, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
 * That's enough for me. The fact that Oviraptorbill was created a day after the other two sockpuppets, and immediately leaped into the same discussion, that's a pretty clear sign for me. It looks from this editor's contributions that they are here to spread fringe, poorly-sourced or unsourced information, and are willing to use multiple accounts to push it. I'm blocking the whole lot of them indefinitely. --  At am a  頭 20:35, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
 * In an unblock request they're stating they're family members. - The Bushranger One ping only 05:02, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
 * based on technical evidence only, is a  sock.  Salvio Let's talk about it! 09:39, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
 * That's enough for me. The fact that Oviraptorbill was created a day after the other two sockpuppets, and immediately leaped into the same discussion, that's a pretty clear sign for me. It looks from this editor's contributions that they are here to spread fringe, poorly-sourced or unsourced information, and are willing to use multiple accounts to push it. I'm blocking the whole lot of them indefinitely. --  At am a  頭 20:35, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
 * In an unblock request they're stating they're family members. - The Bushranger One ping only 05:02, 26 April 2014 (UTC)