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12 April 2014

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Thomas Alured Faunce has been editing Wikipedia to promote his ideas and research, originally under his first username and most recently under. He admitted to being Faunce on his original account, but was not transparent as NimbusWeb, although photos uploaded to the Commons by NimbusWeb all have Thomas Faunce in the creator field.

After he was told off for his behavior under his first account, he migrated to the second one, and until I discovered the connection in the past 24 hours, he has been doing the same behavior. Here are both accounts policing his biography (although the second is probably allowed), but he has been filling Wikipedia with minutae regarding his family history (Queanbeyan District Cricket Club) his colleagues (Alex Bruce (law professor)) and filling other articles with references to his research (see content removed here, and note the reference to artificial photosynthesis).

I believe that with this user's history of attempting to abandon one account when he is discovered to be abusing the system and then moving onto another shows that he may just be making yet another unauthorized alternate account to escape scrutiny with his recent departure, which is a definite violation of WP:SOCK. — Ryūlóng ( 琉竜 ) 11:20, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

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 * I've removed user additions here Future studies, here Steady state economy, here Renewable energy commercialization, here List of people associated with renewable energy, and hereAnthropocene. This entry here might need some attention, but not sure. Prokaryotes (talk) 20:54, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Taken care of.— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜 ) 21:50, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Callanecc, I had this at ANI when it was part of a larger thread complaining of NimbusWeb's editing re: Sustainocene, but the whole thread just died after that.— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜 ) 14:15, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
 * No, the connection was found when the thread had run its course and no one really commented afterwards. He's "quit" in the past only to return and edit without a clearly stated conflict of interest once already.— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜 ) 15:06, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

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 * Fauncet's CU information is, with the last edit in 2009. Any decision on sanctions will need to be based on behaviour.  Risker (talk) 03:51, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not currently seeing an abuse of multiple accounts as there are no overlapping edits to the same pages. I agree that there is a possible link, but it might be best discussed on AN/ANI whether this is sanctionable, and if so whether it's just linking to the account. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 14:07, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Alright then, closing: let's let it die here too. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 14:33, 20 April 2014 (UTC)