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Both like editing articles on earthquakes and tropical cyclones, examples are List of earthquakes in 2019, Tropical cyclones in 2019 and Tropical Storm Pabuk (2019). Moreover, WP1234 also engaged in an edit war on 2019 Papua New Guinea earthquake. B dash (talk) 02:45, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

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 * I think that it's a little early for this. Although, I'm pretty sure that these two accounts are being used by the same person, there is almost no time overlap between their periods of activity and the WritingPro1234 account has not been active since 12 May. I gave a non-formal warning to both users, because whether or not they are the same person, they are clearly newbies, who are struggling to come to grips with editing here. Mikenorton (talk) 10:47, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

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 * I think pretty clearly the same user, who abandoned their first account and moved to the second. They're allowed to do that; I say we forgive the tiny bit of overlap between the two as a newbie mistake. Closing. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:56, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

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Over a series of edits on 19 May (beginning with this diff), She-Hulka added a number of wikilinks in the 2018–19 Australian region cyclone season to the article that they were writing on Cyclone Veronica. Due to the article being a stub with unsourced material, factual inaccuracies, ambiguities, unclear expression and very limited coverage (no more than the season article itself had), I objected to the inclusion of a link pointing to She-Hulka's article on Veronica as the 'main article'. Explaining this in my edit summary, I removed the links. Only a few hours later, She-Hulka re-added the links, beginning with this edit, without explanation. I proceeded to remove them again, and left a message on She-Hulka's talk page (no response has yet been made in several days). A few hours after this, an IP user (219.79.97.3) who had never previously edited this page re-added the links without explanation. I suspect that She-Hulka logged out and made this edit to make it seem like an uninvolved person was making the edit. I reverted this, referring once again to the talk page comment. The same IP editor re-added the links with an illogical edit summary. After consultation with another editor, I decided to let the links stay. Now, today, just after I published a new article that I had been writing in my user space (Cyclone Ann), another IP editor (219.78.190.16) added a request for merging my new article with the 2018–19 Australian region cyclone season article that I mentioned earlier. Now, the IP address of this new user and the IP address of the user I suspected previously to be She-Hulka are very similar. Indeed, using the geolocate feature, one finds that they are located in the same city (I will not say which city in case I am accused of attempted outing), with exactly the same longitude, making it extremely likely that they are the same person. Assuming that they are the same user, and that the original IP user was in fact She-Hulka, I conclude that She-Hulka is adding this merge request in order to spite me for opposing their adding of main article links for Veronica, under the disguise of an supposedly-neutral IP user. Another piece of evidence (qualitative) I have to suggest that this new IP user is in fact She-Hulka is the words that they used in their merge request. They begin by saying, "I appreciate the work". This is almost exactly how I ended my comment on She-Hulka's talk page regarding Veronica—"...we appreciate your effort...". Furthermore, the IP editor states that I can move my article back to my user space. I said something very similar to this in my comment on She-Hulka's talk page: "...or within your own user space...".

I should note that She-Hulka's account has been included in an investigation for sock puppetry before, under the puppet master account WritingPro1234. I was not sure whether or not to put this investigation request under the old investigation, because that investigation has not yet been concluded. ChocolateTrain (talk) 14:21, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Alternatively, it is possible that She-Hulka—provided that the IP users are in fact She-Hulka—has accidentally logged out rather than deliberately logged out, and thus may not be deliberately engaging in any deceitful behaviour. Either way, I will await someone's opinion on this matter.

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 * please merge this with Sockpuppet investigations/WritingPro1234. Yes, it should have been filed there.
 * I closed the other report suggesting that we overlook the small overlap in editing as the user clearly abandoned one account and started a new one. With the logged-out editing more recently, I'll leave it to a clerk to determine what to do here. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:30, 23 May 2019 (UTC)


 * ✅. Sir Sputnik (talk) 14:04, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

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See below. Bbb23 (talk) 16:40, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * . Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:41, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * . Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:41, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * . Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:41, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * . Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:41, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * . Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:41, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * . Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:41, 23 June 2019 (UTC)