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Two come-and-go accounts used for tendentious editing, edit warring and personal attacks, most problematically on pages concerning Arabs in Europe. Hilsea returns from seven-month hiatus to edit on 2005 French riots, removing reliable sources for being allegedly racist (including The Guardian!) and alleging an alt-right conspiracy against the truth, including User:Rjensen who is calmly reverting and discussing. All of this starts after Calcoform breaks his own three-month hiatus to say that the page is racist and that he can't edit it, picking the exact same gripe in particular, a book by Andrew Hussey. 

Both Calcoform and Hilsea have made the same problematic edits on New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany, both denying that it happened despite all the sources. Calcoform was warned over this in March 2016, Hilsea returns that June and uses similar rhetoric, saying that this is a political conspiracy by the right wing. Both use the same hideous "reasoning" that a lack of prosecutions and convictions means these rapes were a false, race-led hoax, which frankly makes my blood boil (it's attitudes like this that mean that even in the "developed" world 9 out of 10 rapes are never reported because of shame).

Before the arrival of Calcoform, Hilsea made similar cuts of reliably sourced information which in any way mentioned any criminal who just happened to be Arab. See here, he knows something the BBC doesn't know, and as usual doesn't provide a source.

Entreprenante is a rarely used sock account, which shares interest in Nabila Ramdani with Hilsea, and has a particular bugbear with an opinions section. He makes the same removal as did Hilsea to the 2014 Sarcelles riots page, somehow knowing better than the Guardian and denying that anti-Semitic chants were used. He edited that page after Hilsea had been warned for edit warring, just as Hilsea restores Calcoform's edits on the German sexual assaults after Calcoform was warned.

Hilsea and Calcoform, apart from their persecution complex and conspiracy theories about a shadowy far-right clique, also use their edit summaries to insult established users. This is particularly horrendous from Hilsea, and here is a smear from Calcoform.

The IP I included made edits to Harry's Place and its talk page just after Calcoform was blocked for a blatant refusal to observe a neutral point of view on the article, about a minor (outside top million sites per Alexa) Israel-related blog. The page had previously been dormant for a year, so I have absolutely no doubt that this was the same person, as the edits were serving the same agenda and the talk page posts had the same ranting, bitter, hostile rhetoric. This adds to the assumption that Calcoform uses separate accounts Anarcho-authoritarian (talk) 15:35, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Can we speed this up? This misogynist is still ranting on talk pages? Anarcho-authoritarian (talk) 13:20, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

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 * While I agree that there are suspicions, I don't have enough evidence to make a determination that they're related. At Talk:2005 French riots, and  describe the dispute as "lies" or "lying", and they both argue their thoughts by expressing positive opinions about Andrew Hussey (1, 2, 3). But I don't see enough behavioral or subtle similarities in their writing that sets off an obvious "red flag" for me to block. If there are specific diffs that compare the writing between the two on the same page and both made recently, please share them - I'd like to take a look and make sure that I didn't miss anything.  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   10:43, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Closing with no action per Oshwah. Bbb23 (talk) 00:21, 28 May 2017 (UTC)