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User DasGermanMoses removed a small amount of information from Bhutan national football team here. I reverted as I felt it was relevant information discussed in depth in the body of the article and so suitable for summary. He reverted without explanation and I put it back. Then the first IP removed it here. I let things lie as I felt it was only a very small part of the article and if two editors felt it should be removed, so be it. However, I recently noticed a very similar piece of behaviour at India national football team. DasGermanMoses removed content here. Another IP unrelated to this case replace it here. Then the second IP noted above reverted again here.

It is interesting to note that both IP1 and IP2 geolocate to exactly the same place. It seems inconceivable therefore that they are not the same person (if I understand how the geolocation tool works). Furthermore, it seems inconceivable that this IP editor would make these edits to return articles to the state DasGermanMoses wants them in without prior knowledge of the article history and given that they made no other contributions whilst editing from that IP address it seems highly unlikely therefore that the user and the IP addresses are not one and the same person.

DasGermanMoses is a regular contributor who often makes a substantial number of edits a day. I don't believe that these IP edits are therefore accidental (particularly given that they are single occurrences both times. I am not sure if there are additional examples, and I don't really have the desire to go trawling through anyone's edit history to find potential items. However, I am concerned that DasGermanMoses is deliberately editing whilst logged out either to avoid openly being seen to be edit warring or to give the false sense of greater consensus favouring his versions to dissuade other editors.

I apologise to DasGermanMoses in advance if I am wrong, but this just seems really odd to see two such similar editing patterns so close together. Fenix down (talk) 08:11, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

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 * Master blocked for 2 days, IP range blocked for a month. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  09:42, 8 September 2016 (UTC)