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All three accounts have been adding external links to fansites made by Geoff Wilkins, and have overlapping edits. User:Geoffw1948 politely proposed such links on several talk pages last year (eg. Talk:Richard_Feynman) and it was explained that they all failed WP:ELNO for fansite/copyright reasons. A year and a half later Geoffw1948 added the Richard Feynman fansite anyway. Eight minutes later, single-edit account GeoffDandridge woke up and added a link to Wilkins' fansite to the Alan Turing article. On the same day, User:GeoffCaravaggio and User:GeoffBrueghel added more Wilkins sites to other articles, teaming up to add one to Hamlet - Brueghel adding the link, Caravaggio italicising it an hour later.

Most of these additions were immediately reverted per WP:ELNO. Four days later HW70s80s added back links from all three cases (1, 2, 3). All of User:HW70s80s's edits have been to add links to Geoff Wilkins' websites to articles. One of Wilkins' websites is handsworth70s80s.net. McGeddon (talk) 14:28, 13 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Digging slightly deeper, User:GeoffZevon and User:GeoffHarlem were posting Wilkins' fansites to Randy Newman and Ludwig Wittgenstein on the same day that the other Geoffs were active, both accounts working together on the former. --McGeddon (talk) 15:22, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

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Note: websites: http://www.parodies.org.uk, http://www.paradoxes.co.uk, http://www.oliver-heaviside.net, http://www.hamlet.org.uk, http://www.alan-turing.net, http://www.richard-feynman.net, http://www.geoffwilkins.net.
 * All spammed sites going to ip 188.65.115.*, except hamlet.org.uk, which goes to ip 95.142.152.194, but same ISP and location. - DVdm (talk) 14:43, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Other links added by these accounts are http://manfred-mann.com and http://www.kurt-godel.net. --McGeddon (talk) 14:49, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Manfred-mann originating in 185.119.173.209, again same ISP and location.
 * Surely there's more of these... - DVdm (talk) 15:12, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Here's one already: http://www.wittgenstein.org.uk. Had a similar request by Geoffw1948 on article talk, with no reply. Link is already removed by now. - DVdm (talk) 15:31, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

There has been a recent flurry of contentious edits at Ludwig Wittgenstein and Ascension Parish Burial Ground, from IPs on the EE network, geolocating to Birmingham, centred on the addition of a britishwittgensteinsociety.org external link. Is it possible that these are related? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 15:40, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
 * It doesn't seem like it - Geoffw1948's edits are to add top-level domains to "External links" sections, and these sites all have a similar format with "SITE BY GEOFF WILKINS" across the footer. The edits and site content related to britishwittgensteinsociety.org don't fit that pattern. --McGeddon (talk) 15:46, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
 * There's no trace of Geoff Wilkins on that site, so indeed probably not. - DVdm (talk) 15:52, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
 * O.t.o.h., here is an overview of what to look for with our Special:LinkSearch. - DVdm (talk) 15:52, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

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