Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/EAC tester/Archive

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I am not sure what is going on but. EAC began editing at 02:01 today and editing until 02:11 making 25 or so edits. They were then followed by Art beginning at 02:13 until they were blocked at 02:19.

Both accounts undid reversions. Both accounts changed "South Western Railway zone" to "South Western Railway Zone (India)" Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 02:27, 15 April 2017 (UTC)  Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 02:27, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

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 * Note that I had blocked the Artemius MacRae account prior to this report. 40+ blind reverts in three minutes across a series of unrelated articles felt like a disruptive bot. The name of the other account likely indicates there's a problematic test here. Kuru   (talk)  02:34, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Okay we have confirmation that it was someone testing a bot Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 02:40, 15 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Artemius MacRae has explained they were testing a bot and has promised to avoid automated editing for the time being. Kuru has unblocked Artemius MacRae on that basis, and I have removed the autoblock on EAC tester. With that, I think this case can be closed. Mz7 (talk) 03:19, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Sure sounds reasonable. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 03:47, 15 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Closing. GABgab 02:20, 18 April 2017 (UTC)