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19 April 2016

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Not clear if this is intentional sock puppetry or just a user who doesn't want to log in. All IPs except the last are Russian. All of them are involved in edits related to the Grasshopper (block cipher) article, mostly breaking WP:V/WP:RS/WP:UNDUE and insufficiently participating in discussions. Some additions to other articles were difficult to track down because they were made from different IPs. One of the IPs has replied to discussion on StepanovVasya's talk page:

Problematic edits include:
 * 1) trying to delete talk page comments
 * 2) making edits to inflate the importance of the Kuznyechik/Grasshopper cipher, such as trying to claim it's resistant to all attacks  and adding it to a list of "common" ciphers
 * 3) removing maintenance templates without justification:, ,
 * 4) the user and IPs have participated in discussions in Russian language, but not English (see Talk:Grasshopper (block cipher), User talk:StepanovVasya).
 * 5) there is a dispute about the name of the article (at Talk:Grasshopper (block cipher) and User talk:StepanovVasya), saying that it should be "Grasshopper" and citing a preliminary document, although two final standard documents in English say "Kuznyechik". I have asked them to provide better sources  and to write messages in English.
 * 6) StepanovVasya made a mess of renaming the article multiple times and then doing a copy-and-paste move. -- intgr [talk] 17:48, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

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No need to say anything, just letting you know of this investigation. -- intgr [talk] 17:50, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Everyone has stopped editing for over a month. Closing without prejudice to being reopened if disruption recommences.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:51, 30 May 2016 (UTC)