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CharlesShirley is a fairly active account that edits almost exclusively AMPOL-related topics, with a special focus on congresswoman Lauren Boebert. In the (UTC) evening of 14 January 2021, CharlesShirley was topic banned from American politics by, among other things for persistently removing negative material from the Boebert article. Somewhat surprisingly, CharlesShirley did not appeal, or comment on, this topic ban and went completely inactive after it went into force. About three hours after the TBAN is placed, Sloppyjoes7 returns from an extended period of hibernation (15 edits between 2012 and 2021) and begins editing AMPOL-related topics. Within a week, the account finds its way to the Boebert article, jumping into a talk page conversation that CharlesShirley had previously participated in. There, Sloppyjoes7 downplays her support for the QAnon conspiracy theory (Special:Diff/1002103739, Special:Diff/1002111652), a fact that CharlesShirley had been trying to get removed from the lead. This leads me to believe that Sloppyjoes7 is being used to evade the TBAN placed on CharlesShirley. There are more behavioural similarities that show these accounts may be connected: In fairness, there are also some minor distinctions, namely that CharlesShirley doesn't capitalise his edit summaries as consistently and that Sloppyjoes7, unlike CharlesShirley, tends to forget to sign their comments. However, given the timeline, POV and other similarities, it strikes me as rather unlikely that these accounts have no connection. Blablubbs | talk 13:38, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Use of lengthy, multi-sentence edit summaries: Special:Diff/1002147854 vs Special:Diff/1000360633, Special:Diff/1000341828 (among others).
 * Almost always punctuating edit summaries: E.g. Special:Diff/1002100972 and Special:Diff/1001524793 vs Special:Diff/999762010 and Special:Diff/1000170957.
 * Exclusive use of source editor.

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 * Technically ❌ and no sign of proxy use or other evasion. TonyBallioni (talk) 16:08, 23 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Closing per the above. The SandDoctor  Talk 18:04, 28 January 2021 (UTC)