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Maxim.il89 is an Israeli editor of wikipedia who repeatedly for the last 18 or so months has made unsupported POV edits to various articles. He was subsequently banned, and I informed him that editing as an IP is considered block evasion. He denied it was him, but the chances of two Israeli Sunderland AFC fans in the same city / neighbourhood seems unlikely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Maxim.il89#December_2020_2

I overlooked several edits recently by various IP as being generally constructive, but as of a few days ago they returned to prior behaviour. Using unreliable sources, attributing content that didn't exist, and a new behaviour of WP:CIRCULAR etc. I broke this down for the user at that time on the relevant talk page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:History_of_Sunderland_A.F.C.#Record_attendance:

They have however just returned to once again edit war, and prior pattern of behaviour is well established.

IP's related all seem to be beginning 2a00:a040:18b:1251.0.0.0.0

I am not sure if a CheckUser is required given the above? Koncorde (talk) 23:06, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

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 * Maxim: IPs: . Both quite focused on Sunderland A.F.C., and quite similar narky edit summaries. All the IPs belong to 2a00:a040:18b:1251:832:7204:9a35:d86e/64. Block that, and I think we're done here. If that block is ineffective, then a spell of page protections might do the trick. Jack Frost (talk) 02:20, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * . : I've blocked the /64 range for 3 months (the user hasn't edited since February, but since it seems that they're the only one using the range, I think there's just enough likelihood of repetition to make this a valid preventative block). Closing. Mz7 (talk) 16:25, 16 March 2021 (UTC)