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The two accounts have been agreeing with one another at Articles for deletion/HDBuzz and Articles for deletion/Edward Wild. What made me suspicious was a series of edits at the latter. Braydonowen made a "keep" comment with a numbered list of points:. Please make note of the first numbered point, about whether the SNG simply requires that a person be "an" author. I then replied, using the same numbering, and saying that he was "quoting that from a note" in the guideline:. Then Dubbin posts a response to my response:. Take a look at that first numbered point. Replying to what I said, he says: "I'm quoting from the guideline." He uses the first-person "I'm", even though it was Braydonowen who had done the quoting. That makes me think it's the same person. I marked "yes" for checkuser because it's just a single data point, but I'm not sure if that's needed. -- Tryptofish (talk) 01:17, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Looking into this some more, I noticed another issue. Pretty much all of the interactions between the two accounts occur at pages having to do with Huntington's disease or with people who do research about the disease. That could certainly be consistent with two different editors just having a similar interest. However, Nath (surname) contains nobody even remotely related to content about the disease. There, Braydonowen started the page:, and just 2 hours later, Dubbin makes the next edit: , which seems like too much of a coincidence. --Tryptofish (talk) 19:17, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

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 * - The premise is weak but I think this deserves a CU. That "I'm" was a giveaway, probably a mistake, considering they've been immaculate so far (if they've been that is). But I don't want to accuse anyone just yet.  QEDK ( T  &#9749;  C ) 19:01, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
 * The two accounts are ✅. I've blocked the master for a month and blocked/tagged the puppet indefinitely. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:25, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Everything seems ok. Good to close.  QEDK  ( T  &#9749;  C ) 02:06, 7 October 2016 (UTC)