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23 June 2014

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Anonymous IP 72.50.85.27 appears to have made his first edit on 05:40, 21 May 2014 HERE. Note from HERE that the editor's edits have been almost exclusively to change the nationality of all Puerto Rican governors from "Puerto Rican" to "American". His edit was reverted on 01:40, 27 May 2014 HERE, entering into an edit war on 01:44, 28 May 2014 HERE but under the new -though very similar- (a public cafe?) anonymous IP address, 72.50.84.228. This sockpuppet-suspicious 72.50.84.228 anon IP was reverted on 02:36, 28 May 2014 HERE, but relentlessly came back on 21:36, 28 May 2014 HERE. Editor Eljohnson15 reverted the anon IP 72.50.87.238 editor on 21:57, 28 May 2014 HERE. But on 22:21, 28 May 2014 the 72.50.87.238 anonymous IP editor reverted Eljohnson15 HERE. Anon IP 72.50.87.238 was once more reverted by Eljohnson15 on 22:47, 28 May 2014 HERE. At this point I started a talk Page discussion on 23:42, 28 May 2014 HERE. The anonymous IP 72.50.87.238 continued his reverting on 00:18, 29 May 2014 HERE but also did show up for a cursory participation in the discussion on 01:48, 29 May 2014 HERE. In any event, due to the edit war I reported the 72.50.87.238 anonymous IP HERE under the 3RR policy and he was Blocked on 07:16, 29 May 2014 HERE for 72 hours. As for the discussion HERE, note how anonymous IP user 72.50.87.238 showed up to make his his cursory arguments on 01:48, 29 May 2014 HERE, but also note how a new anonymous IP, 72.50.87.65 (and again very similar to the previous two anonymous IPs) showed up on on 23:11, 31 May 2014 HERE to defend the IP address that had been blocked. This lead me to further suspect that these 3 anonymous IP addresses (72.50.85.27, 72.50.87.238, 72.50.87.65), all interested in the same very specific nationality topic, all in the same time-frame, and all doing edits exclusively on this matter alone, are one and the same user. However, after the block there was a period of inactivity from all of those anonymous IP addresses.

However, it did not stop there. A week later, on 18:43, 8 June 2014 HERE a user called Jbabylon91, and who had done only a handful of edits in WP about 9 months earlier, changed not the nationality, but the place of birth fields of current Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla, appending them with a "U.S." designation. A series of reverts occurred where myself and editor "Gobierno.pr" as shown HERE reverted those Jbabylon91 edits. I again created a Talk Page discussion on 16:02, 11 June 2014 HERE to where Jbabylon91 made a single cursory appearance on 19:54, 11 June 2014 HERE.

What became interesting at this point is that just as Jbabylon91 drops off as into a cliff on 19:55, 11 June 2014 (see it HERE), a new editor, WikiSoldier86, shows up on 20:11, 11 June 2014 (see it HERE) and continues the work started by Jbabylon91 with the single currently-sitting governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla but expands it to cover again all 10 or so Puerto Rico governors. Like JBabylon91, WikiSoldier86 has been reverting without discussion. WikiSoldier86 made an cursory appearance HERE, but never returned. Jbabylon91 also stopped discussion and WikiSoldier86 the continued from there. WikiSoldier86 failed to show up for any additional discussion and instead had been mobile-reverting other editors who have been reverting his edits, like HERE (Eljohnson15) HERE (Marine 69-71) HERE (Jared Preston) and HERE (Yankees10), besides myself. The governors are: Luis Muñoz Marín, Roberto Sánchez Vilella, Luis A. Ferré, Rafael Hernández Colón, ‎Pedro Rosselló, Sila María Calderón, ‎Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Luis Fortuño and Alejandro García Padilla, but WikiSoldier86 is now also attacking articles of everyone who was born in Puerto Rico HERE.

Finally, in THIS edit, an editor previously seemingly uninvolved in this matter, Rococo1700, came out making lots noise about the fact that I was reverting the user who was doing the bulk changes to the birthplace infoboxes. Could Rococo1700 also be a sockpuppet here??

Also, both WikiSoldier86 and JBabylon91 make edits almost exclusively from the web via a mobile platform as can be seen HERE and HERE. I suspected that WikiSoldier86 is not just the same as Jbabylon91 (and perhaps Rococo1700 as well), but also perhaps the same as the previous 3 anonymous IP editors because in just a period of 2 weeks they have all 5 shown up out of nowhere to make the same types of politically-motivated edits on the same small group of articles. They, IMO, should all be banned. Mercy11 (talk) 19:53, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

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I agree with the above stated. El Johnson (talk) 23:42, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

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There's no reason to suspect Rococo1700 based on that one edit. There are no other suspicious connections. The IPs are stale. Both named accounts are now tagged (as confirmed based on intervention by a CU). Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:42, 28 June 2014 (UTC)