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Both users appear to be vandalising the infobox of the article Linkin Park in the same manner as each other, mostly stemming from the recent death of lead singer Chester Bennington. After Lodge's last attempt at an edit war, the suspected sock comes in hours later and adds a similar change. The documentation for the infobox clearly states that only the names of the individuals should be mentioned, not how they left when referring to them as a "past member." I suspect that either this is a duck or a supposed meat puppet working for the sockmaster so he won't edit war the article any further. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 18:59, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

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 * Based on the timing of the edit, I can understand why it looks suspicious. However, a few idiosyncrasies make me more inclined to believe that this was a coincidence and these accounts are unrelated. Firstly, ML&LR1998VGCP used (Died) rather than Kyle Lodge's (deceased). ML&LR1998VGCP is also the older account, created in 2015. It's a fairly longstanding account with edits to a wider range of articles than Kyle Lodge (Kyle Lodge was created on June 23, 2017 and almost exclusively edits List of deaths in rock and roll). Additionally, Kyle Lodge edits almost exclusively from the mobile web, without the use of edit summaries, whereas ML&LR1998VGCP included an edit summary here. Meat puppetry is possible, but I don't think there is enough behavioral evidence to conclude a violation of the sock puppetry policy on the basis of WP:DUCK. For these reasons, I am marking this as closed without action. I have, however, left notices on both user's talk pages about avoiding meat puppetry . Consider adding a hidden notice in the infobox to prevent users from adding the "(deceased)" label without discussion. Mz7 (talk) 22:30, 31 July 2017 (UTC)