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25 August 2014

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MrOneTime: Both accounts (Latertinsna and MrOneTime) have only edited Johncongo (rapper) and associated pages. Also, similar writing styles (Special:diff/622688686 and Special:permalink/622419124). —gdfusion (talk&#124;contrib) 03:33, 25 August 2014 (UTC) (clarification 15:04, 27 August 2014 (UTC))

Werightere: Only one comment on the afd debate for Johncongo (Special:Diff/622721536) —gdfusion (talk&#124;contrib) 16:24, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' If we're looking for similar editing styles, this edit by Latertinsna shows that she uses the same double ".." style as the two accounts that posted "keep" rationales on the AfD. The same thing is done in this edit to Finngall's page. It's not the strongest stuff to go on, but the double period does stand out as a habit. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   06:57, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * You can see the same thing here and here. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   06:59, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Here as well. It's possible it's just something done in a specific area, but I've never seen this done before unless it's one of those lingering "after the sentence" type of things like... Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   07:01, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * In other words, I don't know if it's a West African Pidgin English thing or if it's just something done by one specific person. Pages related to Johncongo use it, but then there's nothing to guarantee that this isn't a case of one person making the Johncongo pages and the Wikipedia pages. (See here, where you see the same punctuation used several times by Johncongo.) I can't really find any true evidence that this is a common WAPE thing and that the Wikipedia article for WAPE doesn't have the punctuation in the grammar sample doesn't help the argument that this is possibly something specific to WAPE grammar for the area. (Note: we can't entirely use Hawaiian Pidgin, as there is a difference in dialects.) I've looked around the Internet and at scholarly sources and I can't find anything to show that this is anything other than a personal quirk by one specific person. If by some chance Laterinsna is a separate person from the two confirmed people, then at the very least this would be a case of meatpuppetry, but the punctuation makes me doubt it. If someone can bring up a page where this punctuation is used by someone unrelated to Johncongo (and wasn't created in the last day or so in the hopes of making this seem legit) then I'll believe that it's just a case of punctuation specific to WAPE. I know that this isn't the strongest evidence, which is why I figure I should post this last bit. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   09:35, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

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 * The link between the two reported socks is fairly convincing, but the link to the reported master isn't enough for me. Can someone else take a look please? Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 13:38, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * While checking the connection between and,  popped up as editing contemporaneously from the same IPs and device as MrOneTime and they are ✅ to each other. There's some use of proxies here which makes me less inclined to be lenient with blocks and such.  --Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  21:17, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the sock accounts and stepped up the master account's block to 2 weeks based upon the proxy behavior. Mike V  •  Talk  16:29, 12 September 2014 (UTC)