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Disruption in tropical-storm article renaming and moving articles has been ongoing for the last month or so, causing consternation in the Tropical cyclones project, as many of the renames are not following the project's guidelines.

N-C16's move log shows their pattern of moving storm articles last month. As a registered account, they moved many articles themselves, and requested moves for those where there was already an article:, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and. The move requests were all on October 21 or 22.

On October 27, the user was blocked for sockpuppetry.

The IPs' behavior in redirecting articles and requesting moves of storms is very similar. On Talk:Typhoon Haikui, one requested move opened by N-C16 was procedurally closed when the user was blocked. Another, nearly identical move request was opened a few weeks later by 203.186.21.99 (on the same talk page!) and closed as going against consensus.

In one day, the IP 219.79.96.41 has opened four move requests for storm articles:, , , and. They have made redirects with no consensus: and.

I note that IPs 219.78.190.163 and 219.79.227.68 have been blocked already in the same case as N-C16. Though I see no evidence of disruption, I would suggest that the following IP accounts be watched: 219.79.96.160, 219.79.127.72, and 219.79.127.3. — Gorthian (talk) 21:20, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

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We don't publicly disclose the IP(s) of named accounts. CU declined.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:59, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
 * - Behaviorally the IPs do appear to be N-C16. The IPs are both now stale, there is no reason to now block them.  - GB fan 21:15, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

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Behaviorally identical to previous disruptive edits: opening too many requested moves for storm articles that go against established policies. IP addresses are also very similar.

Requested moves: one on February 5, ten on February 7 (relisted on the 15th), and one on February 10. — Gorthian (talk) 07:36, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

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I added another IP, who is requesting unprotection on Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane Irene. George Ho (talk) 10:59, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

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 * Blocked latest active IP. Neil N  talk to me 14:13, 15 February 2017 (UTC)