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12 April 2013

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KatieBoundary is currently on a campaign to defame Yasheng Group and the Silk Route Museum. There is a discussion about it on the Administrators' noticeboard here. I am fairly certain that the individual behind the KatieBoundary username is Eric Diesel, who I believe is also behind the banned monikers PPdd and ChinaUpdater, as well as the IP address 24.130.156.204. The evidence is that all of these usernames and the IP address are involved with seemingly unrelated subjects:

1. Louis Lesser. Every username I have mentioned has either edited the Lesser page directly, or mentioned him on a different page. (KatieBoundary example). (PPdd Example). (ChinaUpdaterExample). (IP Example). Diesel is Lesser's business partner according to his wiki page.

2. Pearlasia Gamboa. KatieBoundary, PPdd, and the IP have edited or commented about Gamboa. (KatieBoundary example). (PPdd example). (IP example). Diesel has made accusations about Gamboa outside of Wikipedia here.

3. Yasheng Group and Silk Route Museum. Tendentious editing by KatieBoundary discussed here. ChinaUpdater originally created those pages.The 24.130.156.204 IP has edited both pages. (Yasheng example). (Museum example). Eric Diesel has made accusations about Yasheng and the museum outside of Wikipedia.

4. Allied Artists International. KatieBoundary (example), PPdd (example), and ChinaUpdater (example) all made accusatory additions to AAI's page. Diesel made accusations about AAI outside of Wikipedia.

5. Eric Diesel. PPdd made many edits to Paul M. Fleiss's page.Diesel had dealings with Fleiss and his family. ChinaUpdater made changes to Huxley family pages. Diesel appears to have been in business with them. The 24.130.156.204 IP address has edited the Eric Diesel page directly.

KatieBoundary, in response to suspicion that he is the same person as PPdd, defended himself by saying that he is a geologist, and that mining is the common thread tying these topics together. The odds that it's mining linking all these people, not Diesel himself, seem truly astronomical.

Apologies if any of the formatting or linking was done incorrectly. Please let me know if more information is required. Springfalling (talk) 00:57, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
All accounts are now indefinitely blocked. It looks very much as though the IP address has in the past been used by this user, but there is no obvious reason to think that this has been so in recent months. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:48, 16 April 2013 (UTC)