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12 October 2015

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made an insertion of genetics on Indo-Aryan peoples on 9 August at 08:38, which was duplicated by  diff at Dravidian peoples at 09:33 after doing an edit  at Indo-Aryan peoples itself.

All the other IP users from the same network in Bangalore have done similar edits to the Genetics section of Dravidian peoples for a long time. They all exhibit similar characteristics (not participating on talk pages, giving no edit summaries etc.) By and large, they avoid the Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia page, where this kind of information rightly belongs.

is currently blocked, after having edit-warred with 5 different editors at Indo-Aryan peoples, including an ARBCOMM member. After suggested at Talk:Indo-Aryan peoples that this information should go in Peopling of India,  started editing that page. This shows that these IP users do know the talk page discussions even though they never participate.

One of the IP's claimed to have been in touch with, apparently off-wiki. Another IP copied my edit summary to revert another IP's edit here. So apparently there are multiple individuals involved among these IPs.

I think we need and  to come clean about what is going on. Kautilya3 (talk) 15:24, 12 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Further block evasion edits by, , , , after having received the SPI notice: . Instances of DUCK. One of them self-declared.- Kautilya3 (talk) 09:51, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * One IP is self-confirmed and the rest are within the dynamic range, so any admin can do either duck blocks or page protections. I'm uninvolved in the topic area but I've been in a content dispute with Pebble101 in another area, so I am recused here. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  16:09, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * To clarify, only is block evasion, the rest are all stale logged out editing. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  16:11, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Is the first edit of another IP of his block evasion? It appears to me to be within the 31 hours. He makes it clear at User talk:slakr that it's him. Doug Weller (talk) 14:09, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * That's not his first edit using IPs, his first edits were made as 117.192.204.9 on three different articles at 06:20-06:22UTC on the 13th, even though his block didn't expire until more than three hours later, at 09:40UTC. So it's a clear case of block evasion. It's also clear that it's him since hes been edit-warring on Indian people, and when confronted admitted that he was behind the 117.* IPs (see User talk:SpacemanSpiff). Thomas.W talk 14:25, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Pebble101
Some of those edits are from me and i have also told users on here about it when they confronted me about it, I edit from Uni during the day but i wont be able to log in there. I edit logged on past 5, when i'm home.

I hope this clears things Pebble101 (talk) 12:30, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you for that, Pebble101, but it doesn't really. To say that some of them are from you, and to tell users about it when they confront you isn't enough. I for one don't blame you for editing logged out when it's impractical to log in, but what you need to do, in the interest of transparency and honesty, is to say it's you ("This is Pebble101") in the edit summary every time you edit from an IP from now on. That would clear things up. Bishonen &#124; talk 14:23, 14 October 2015 (UTC).

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 * Closing as this is not an issue currently and has also admitted to using some of the IPs. Pebble101 has stopped edit warring and has been advised to note that it is them when editing logged out. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  15:38, 3 November 2015 (UTC)