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02 March 2013

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Anixx1, a user account created in October 2012 with less than 68 edits, made a comment at an RFC, citing an author not generally know outside the specialised topic of the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states.

I noted the oddity of an apparent newbie having never edited Baltic topics before citing a rather specialised source, and Paul Siebert responded "By the way, the book found by Anixx1 appeared to be an interesting reading", as if attempting to provide some kind of plausible reason why Anixx1 may have discovered the source.

In fact Paul Siebert knows Khudoley quite well, having started an extensive discussion on this author back on 22 June 2012

However, Anixx1 only started editing on October 8th, 2012, so he could not have been aware of Khudoley, since that author hasn't been mentioned in any discussion on any talk page since Paul Siebert's archived discussion back in June 2012.

Despite the extremely low number of edits by User:Anixx1, similarities in style jump out. Most obvious being the practice of quoting sources and embedding page numbers in a particular style within braces and a full stop, e,g "(p. 62)", --Nug (talk) 12:29, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

I've added UUNC, Paul Siebert cites Khudoley in a AE discussion about UUNC subsection "UUNC as a sock/meatpuppet". --Nug (talk) 18:50, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

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 * Comment From having seen Paul's work in many articles over the last few years, I'd be pretty amazed if he was socking: his integrity has always impressed me (especially on the many occasions where we've disagreed). Comments by Anixx such as this and this run counter to Paul's views on the WW2 infobox. Providing page numbers in brackets when discussing sources is a pretty common practice for people who are familiar with the Harvard style of referencing, which is a large chunk of university-educated people. Nick-D (talk) 04:24, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

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 * Based on Nick's observations, plus the fact that Anixx1 could have easily voted here and didn't, I don't see clear indications of abuse or likelihood of it being the same user. Closing without prejudice if more conclusive evidence surfaces. Dennis Brown - 2¢  © Join WER 18:02, 4 March 2013 (UTC)