Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/GabiloveAdol/Archive

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Evidence: [1] The IP 86.89.46.70 has edited and edit warred in Amhara people article since October 2016 thru January 2017 (see this, this). [2] @GabiloveAdol admitted to being the IP 86.89.46.70 here on 10 January 2017. [3] Fast forward to February 15 2017: the IP 86.89.46.70 claims it is not @GabiloveAdol in this edit summary, and is edit warring again about the same sections in the same article. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 14:40, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Comment: Given our guidelines on due care with IPs and named accounts, I am confused about this strange case where the named account has once admitted to be the same as the IP, then a month later edits from the same IP and now asserts that it is not the named account. Does WP:DUCK apply? For what it is worth, the IP and @GabiloveAdol accounts have been disruptive, continue to edit war despite a request to explain the issue on the talk page, and have a history of bad faith practices; see, for example, this old and declined SPI case filed by @GabiloveAdol against many non-admin editors, admins and me here and here (the case file was deleted and salted by admin Ivanvector, so I am unable to link it). , any suggestions on our procedures where a likely-same user is deploying IP and named account to the same edit warring purpose over a period of time in the same article? Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 17:45, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

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 * Is it just a coincidence that the IP resumed editing Amhara people shortly after this AN/I case was closed? As I noted there, I have ongoing concerns about sockpuppetry in this area following the threats that Middayexpress made when quitting Wikipedia. Cordless Larry (talk) 08:23, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * it's clear that you are one user editing both logged in and logged out. You are allowed to do so as long as you don't mislead others into thinking that you are two different people, like you did here. Please see WP:LOGOUT. If you do this again you will be blocked from editing.
 * it is a courtesy when you mention another user in a discussion to notify them using a template such as user link or ping. I had no idea you were talking about me here until I just happened to come across this today.
 * Case closed with no further action. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:47, 18 March 2017 (UTC)