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26 March 2013

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These accounts have extensive intersections in very limited range of topics and they are all guilty of promoting a person named Riccardo Gaudino, an amateur historian in Napa County, California. Here are the common topics: Goldenbearpress is the earliest account by this person. This edit added a bit about America's 500th birthday and "Who Named America". This edit included a connection to Ctb500, America500 and Martin Waldseemüller. This edit promotes the name of Riccardo Gaudino. Goldenbearpress was never blocked; his last edit was April 9, 2011. Ctb500 began editing on February 1, 2010, some 14 months before Goldenbearpress stopped editing. His first edit promoted the name of Riccardo Gaudino and the proposal of America500. Similarly, the next month Cbt500 added America500, www.whonamedamerica.com and Riccardo Gaudino to the article about Martin Waldseemüller. Ctb500 uploaded the File:FtWayne-IN-FlagRaising.jpg with references to www.whonamedamerica.com and Riccardo Gaudino. His first addition to the Napa article was this addition of Riccardo Gaudino as a notable resident. At the Cartography article, Ctb500 added references to www.whonamedamerica.com and Riccardo Gaudino. At the Amerigo Vespucci article, he added references to America's 500th birthday, America500, Martin Waldseemuller, the America 2012 Worldwide Extravaganza, www.whonamedamerica.com, and Riccardo Gaudino. Ctb500 was indefinitely blocked as a spammer by Orangemike on September 29, 2011, and his user page was deleted for "Unambiguous advertising or promotion". America500 was created on September 9, 2011, overlapping the activity of Ctb500. The first edit referenced Riccardo Gaudino, "Who Named America" and America's 500th birthday. He added the same stuff plus Martin Waldseemüller to the article about Pope Valley, California. This was also added to the Napa County article. America500 added this stuff to the article on Martin Waldseemüller. America500 was not blocked; his last edit was on September 17, 2011. 67.164.126.32 geolocates to Napa, California. The IP was only active in August 2011, adding uncited original research about Italian-American immigrants and Italian fishing practices to the articles on the Maritime history of California and the History of the United States Merchant Marine. Two hours after Cbt500 edited the article, the IP made these changes, adding a link to "Portrait of A Ligurian Fishing Colony" which is a 1980 paper by Gaudino. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_United_States_Merchant_Marine&diff=446622803&oldid=443592003 same "Portrait of..." link] was added to the History of the United States Merchant Marine. MarkWest1 was created on October 1, 2011, directly after Ctb500 was blocked. His first edit was to cite a non-existent journal article written by Gaudino. He quoted "Golden State historian Riccardo Gaudino" at the Felucca page. He listed Gaudino as a "notable resident" of Napa multiple times: MarkWest1 added America's 500th birthday, "Who Named America" and Martin Waldseemüller to the Santa Cruz, California, article. He added America500 to the same Waldseemüller map which was Ctb500's first focus. 174.79.254.29 was only active in March 2013. The IP was interested in the same articles as MarkWest1 and Cbt500: Little Italy, San Diego, Santa Cruz, California, Napa County, California and Napa, California. He added Gaudino to the notable residents of Napa (city) and also Napa County. The IP was active at the Little Italy article two minutes after MarkWest1, and then MarkWest1 picked up again 24 minutes after the IP. I think all of these editors are the same person, someone who wants to promote Gaudino as a historian and also to promote Gaudino as the author of a resolution about America being named after Amerigo Vespucci. I think all of the named accounts should be blocked in the manner of Cbt500, for persistent promotion and spamming, and MarkWest1 for block evasion. Binksternet (talk) 01:55, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
 * America's 500th birthday, or America500, www.whonamedamerica.com or "Who Named America" (a US resolution authored by Gaudino)
 * America500 Birthday Extravaganza (2007-2012). This page was created by Goldenbearpress but it got speedily deleted in September 2008. Two years later, Ctb500 revived it in userspace: User:Ctb500/America500 Birthday Extravaganza 2007-12.
 * Italian-American immigrants
 * Italian fishing practices
 * Martin Waldseemüller
 * Early California history
 * Napa County, California, and the city of Napa

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
All accounts (except MarkWest1 and IP 174...) look to be too old for Checkuser to be of any use in connecting them. It might be possible to tie MarkWest1 to the recent IP, but Checkusers will not link named accounts and IPs except in very rare circumstances. This'll have to be decided on behaviour. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  10:32, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Any possible connections are simply too iffy to justify an SPI block. — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 05:56, 3 April 2013 (UTC)