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User is modifying astronomy related image sizes using the excuse that "table: enlarged photo for newer computer screens" or similar. (there is no other explanation for these changes.) An early discussion on Tetra Quark's talkpage (which they have conveniently deleted) User talk:Tetra quark/bin shows arguments regarding rearranging images with similar excuses.

They are also primarily changing many Spanish related pages as evident on their User contributions page. A past discussion by now banned and multiple sockpuppet Tetra quark highlights similar behaviour and modification of Spanish/Portuguese articles, that looks like a long-term unsuspected block evasion2. Further discussion of this appears here in previous sock investigations. They all edit on South American related countries and similar related articles are included with banned socks Incendiary Iconoclasm ,G-dac(Special:Contributions/G-dac) ]; and similarly user Outedexits [] G-dac edited this on Gamochaeta simplicicaulis], but Terrific Dunker Guy also edits specialist botanical pages too. It seems unlikely that these behaviours are not related and do suggest socking. This is all DUCK evidence. This is also more worrisome, as Tetra quark that they will try and avoid these blocks (block evasion) in the future.

Also there is also some evidence of these users operating different accounts at the same time. For example, All edits : 23rd January 2015 to 07th February 2015


 * Tetra quark 23rd January 2015 : 01:26 to 10:28 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark : 23rd January 2015 06:48 to 11:33 (user talk)
 * Terrific Dunker Guy : 23rd January 2015 12:08 to 14:16 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 23rd January 2015 : 15:34 to 15:49 (user talk)
 * Tetra quark 23rd January 2015 : 20:20 to 20:50 (user talk)
 * Tetra quark 23rd January 2015 : 13:15 to 18:46 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 24th January 2015 : 01:26 to 09:15 (edit contribution)
 * Terrific Dunker Guy 24th January 2015 : 09:46 to 13:34  (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 24th January 2015 : 11:01 to 09:11 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 25th January 2015 : 07:51 to 14:24 (user talk)
 * Tetra quark 25th January 2015 : 01:32 to 09:11 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 25th January 2015 : 22:56 to 23:15 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 26th January 2015 : 22:56 to 23:52 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 26th January 2015 : 01:05 to 04:04 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 26th January 2015 : 01:13 to 03:36 (user talk)
 * Tetra quark 27th January 2015 : 01:05 to 04:04 (edit contribution)
 * Terrific Dunker Guy 27th January 2015 : 11:27 to 12:43 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 28th January 2015 : 02:21 to 10:30 (edit contribution)
 * Terrific Dunker Guy 28th January 2015 : 09:36 to 11:52 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 29th January 2015 : 01:05 to 04:04 (edit contribution)
 * Terrific Dunker Guy 29th January 2015 : 10:25 to 12:08 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 30th January 2015 : 00:20 to 13:54 (user talk)
 * Tetra quark 31st January 2015 : 01:45 to 02:14 (edit contribution)
 * Terrific Dunker Guy 31st January 2015 : 13:22 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 01st February 2015 : 04:40 to 06:05 (user talk)
 * Tetra quark 01st February 2015 : 02:14 to 06:12 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 02nd February 2015 : 02:06 to 18:06 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 03rd February 2015 : 02:00 to 12:19 (edit contribution)
 * Terrific Dunker Guy 03rd February 2015 : 12:43 to 13:04 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 04th February 2015 : 10:36 (user talk)
 * Terrific Dunker Guy 04th February 2015 : 09:48 to 09:46 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 04th February 2015 : 10:36 to 15:41 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 05th February 2015 : 12:22 (user talk)
 * Tetra quark 05th February 2015 : 01:32 to 02:14 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 05th February 2015 : 12:28 to 12:28 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 06th February 2015 : 02:27 to 02:46 (edit contribution)
 * Terrific Dunker Guy 06th February 2015 : 09:36 to 09:59 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 06th February 2015 : 12:23 to 12:26 (edit contribution)
 * Terrific Dunker Guy 06th February 2015 : 12:50 to 13:46 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 07th February 2015 : 01:36 to 01:38 (edit contribution)
 * Tetra quark 07th February 2015 : 08:35 to 08:55 (edit contribution)
 * Terrific Dunker Guy 07th February 2015 : 10:52 to 13:24 (edit contribution)

Few of this history overlaps (those that are are mostly reverts), which is odd as the times appear in the same timezone. Days when Terrific Dunker Guy edits Tetra quark does. Probability of these two being unrelated is pretty small. (There are no user talk comments by Terrific Dunker Guy in these periods.)

When the last sock was blocked by User:Bbb23 2 August 2016, Terrific Dunker Guy then started their significant edits after this time.. Arianewiki1 (talk) 06:46, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

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Based on CU logs, Tetra quark and Terriffic Dunker are editing from two different continents.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:12, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Case closed with no action.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  21:53, 15 May 2018 (UTC)