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14 July 2014

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has been involved in an edit war at Jen Psaki. Although the subject of a discussion at WP:ANI, an IP address editor who has no previous edit history has joined the war with these two edits and. The edit summaries are far too close to the edit summary used by Le Grand Bleu at this edit for this to not meet the duck test.

A look at the edit summary reveals that another ip address has also inserted exactly the same material. Edit: For some reason, the IP address above is defaulting to an invalid address. (Fixed - I'm obliged)) DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 16:50, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' So I have all of my IP, a Los-Angeles IP, a German IP and a French IP? I'm not an expert but I think I'd need to be moving VERY fast around the globe to achieve this. Or be really smart to fake IPs. In which case a questions arises - isn't sockpuppetry supposed to actually conseal the fact that the edits are made by the same person? And wouldn't it be catastrophically stupid for a person who can fake four IPs in four different countries to use identical edit descriptions if he was trying to pretend he's multiple users. DieSwartzPunkt really didn't think his accusations thought. Duck test failed. His/her accusations are as unsubstantiated as they were public. Le Grand Bleu (talk) 17:12, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

If checkusers decide to act on this accusation and perform a check, I expressly require for my IP address to remain confidential as per Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy. Thank you. Le Grand Bleu (talk) 17:18, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
 * You are missing the point. The point is that the edits are from multiple accounts to conceal the fact that edits are from the same person.  As for using identical edit descriptions: I have seen far more obvious socks trying that claim on as a defence.  As for your claim that you are in Los Angeles?  I can claim that I am editing from the International Space Station.  By the way, IP addresses can be easily spoofed.  But you already knew that.  DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 17:26, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Based mainly on duck and partly on the rather technical defense by Le Grand Bleu, I've blocked the master for two weeks. I'm taking no action against the IPs at the moment as one has not edited since July 11 and one not since July 14. I would take additional action if the disruption recurs.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:59, 19 July 2014 (UTC)