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15 September 2014

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In July 2014, ProgGuy was reported for edit warring over musical genres and baseless accusations in which I was accused of being the anonymous IP user, 108.64.172.207, that he was warring with. He also accused user, SonOfPlisskin of being that same anonymous IP user due to the same disgreement. Along with the accusations, he threw in personal attacks calling what he perceived to be one user, cowardly. In the end, admin Dark gave out warnings to both ProgGuy and the anonymous user and things calmed down.  

Now, three months later, I see a similar genre edit war going on over similar and exact same articles. This time, it's anonymous user 64.134.96.198 taking up the same fight that ProgGuy fought and once again, is against SonOfPlisskin. Particular attention is paid to Mudvayne and L.D. 50 (album).

ProgGuy's edits to L.D. 50 (album):   

64.134.96.198's edits to L.D. 50 (album):   

ProgGuy would falsely insist his genres were by consensus yet remove the whole genre field, which, if I recall, he was told not to do anymore. 64.134.96.198 also falsely insists on his genres being per consensus and swaps them for genres that he does not want to see listed. In the third example, 64.134.96.198 resorts to removing the genre field altogether, exactly as ProgGuy did.

On September 13, after SonOfPlisskin implied that 64.134.96.198 was the returning ProgGuy, 64.134.96.198 filed an incident report against him for it. As a response, within the incident report, I replied that yes, it seemed to be the same person and cited the mutual articles both editors had edited and the similarities. As a response, 64.134.96.198 made unsupported accusations, once again, that now myself and SonOfPlisskin were the same person. Admin msg me  responded by saying that while SonOfPlisskin should possibly be told to assume good faith, there was nothing actionable taking place. After continued accusations that SonOfPlisskin and I were the same person, The Bushranger told 64.134.96.198 that if sockpuppetry was suspected, the proper way to handle it was to file a report with WP:SPIl along with evidence. He was also told that a baseless report could be considered a personal attack. 

A case WAS filed soon after by user I Am Caligula , a seemingly uninvolved user who, for two weeks, has only made edits to the Caligula (film) article and one edit concerning the band Mudvayne. Seems very coincidental as well as odd that an account only interested in two articles since its creation in September suddenly has interest in a sockpuppet case. Even though the three accounts I mention are not editing at the same time, two of them are definitely editing the same articles. NJZombie (talk) 01:51, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

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He also edited under the IP 192.42.92.110. And I know external sites don't count, but for further evidence that it's most likely the same user, he's been trying to make similar edits on TVTropes (leading to 3 bans). The first few edits were made around the same time the IP I mentioned was actively edit warring and the latest edits were made recently. You can see the history here. The user posted under bornofself, janegotagun and JuanGalt. Notice, that in his most recent edit, he linked to the same Sea of Tranquility review. A bit fishy that two different people would decide to make the same Mudvayne edits on the same two sites at similar times. And yet, he's claimed that he's never edited before August. He's also, once again deleted all of the warnings on the talk page of his current IP (and is now pretending to be another user, despite displaying the same behavior), which is something he did with most of the mentioned accounts and IPs.

Also, using the EIU, I've noticed that both of the IPs edited The Berlin Batman, which is way too obscure to be a coincidence. Both IPs have also made edits to Ralph Bakski films and there are other similar behaviors that you can read on my talk page. SonOfPlisskin (talk) 19:07, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
— Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:28, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
 * and are  the same editor. --Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  17:24, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Closing.