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03 February 2015

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 * 1) - First edit by Bdhendy07 (a Single Purpose Account) to add an incorrect date of death to Template:Latter Day Saint biography/Thomas S. Monson for Thomas S. Monson.  For the Record Monson is still alive and this was a vandalism edit.
 * 2) - I reverted the incorrect information.
 * 3) - Dbollard99 added the same incorrect death date directly to the page Thomas S. Monson.
 * 4) - User:Bahooka reverted the change

I find it highly suspicious that two different editors, one of whom is a single purpose account, would intentionally add the exact same incorrect date of death to the same person within such a short time frame. I even gave Dbollard99 a second warning not to vandalize again, only to discover that Bdhendy07 made the first edit. --- ARTEST4ECHO(Talk) 12:50, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

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The two accounts are ❌. I'd also suggest that care be taken to not automatically refer to such edits as "vandalism". Sometimes they are, but just as often they are good-faith but erroneous (or sometimes simply unsourced) edits. It is at least as likely that a source "reported" that the article subject had died (the guy's 90 years old, it wouldn't be a shocker) as that two independent individuals added the same information on the same day. We've seen this repeatedly before when erroneous or fabricated reports of the death of notable individuals have been added to Wikipedia: in most cases, the edits are actually made in good faith. Risker (talk) 17:17, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Per Risker's comments, I'm closing the case with no action taken. Mike V • Talk 17:28, 14 February 2015 (UTC)