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20 July 2011

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single purpose editing accounts, original sock master was banned for legal threats, single purpose editing to remove links to US Government produced public use language resources from http://fsi-language-courses.org/ that he resells (per own admission) on http://FOREIGNSERVICEINSTITUTE.COM  Bevin  bell 17:12, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

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I am not associated with ForeignServiceInstitute, and never heard of him before. I have been editing linguistics articles for a while now, and created an account only because Bevinbell, who accused me of vandalism, said he wouldn't respond to IPs. Bevinbell doesn't seem to believe that I might have made an honest mistake, but such things do happen. See this edit, by an admin, at Khmer language, which was no different from the edits that lead Bevinbell to accuse me of vandalism. Linguistic Science (talk) 00:28, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

As for those IP edits, I did make the ones as 203.118.185.209 and 203.118.184.44, but certainly not 72.181.213.221, which geolocates to a different country. Note that I have edited from a dynamic IP, and that my edits, which Kwami and other users (Taivo, for instance) are familiar with, are not those of a single-purpose account. Linguistic Science (talk) 00:33, 21 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I think that the editing pattern and single subject nature is suspicious. As for editing under different IPs from different countries, I give you an example.  I have logged out and this is my IP.  Bevinbell 98.158.121.171 (talk) 08:29, 22 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Here I am again logged out, note my new IP geolocated to another country. Bevinbell 124.43.22.125 (talk) 08:30, 22 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I could do this with a third and fourth, not really much of a parlor trick.  Bevin  bell  08:32, 22 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I have edited linguistics articles for some time, and the overwhelming majority of my edits have had nothing at all to do with FSI; again ask Kwami or Taivo about it, or just see the revision history of Nilo-Saharan languages, for instance. I admit that my removal of the links Bevinbell restored was a mistake, and don't know why he won't accept that. Linguistic Science (talk) 08:47, 22 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I think that it was just some unfortunate coincidence - I do think that 72.181.213.221 is a sock puppet, as he continues to remove material without any discussion that is exactly as the sockmaster did. Apologies to Linguistic, his edits appeared at the sametime that this user re-appeared.  Bevin  bell  07:32, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
It's clear that Linguistic Science has edited under IPs before registering as evidenced in this comment and his/her comments above. That's not abusive. I don't see any link whatsoever between Linguistic Science and ForeignServiceInstitute. Toddst1 (talk) 19:00, 21 July 2011 (UTC)