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User:Wwwma was indef blocked in early May for long-term dynamic IP disruption on generational cohort articles. (The Wwwma username was created in the late stages of that, apparently as a way to bypass page protection: most edits were from daily-changing 2606.* IP addresses.)

A large part of that disruption was disputing the given dates of these cohorts, with a disruptive tendency to revert any editors who disagreed, repeatedly and irrespective of how much of their edit the IP disagreed with.

User:108.24.93.190 appeared in late May and has been editing the Generation Z and Millennials article in a similar fashion:


 * An old 2606.* IP changed the Gen Z definition from "1995 onwards" to "starting from the early 2000s"
 * Another old IP changed "ranging from 1995 to 2000 through the present time" to "ranging from the mid or late 1990s through the 2010s or starting from the early 2000s"
 * 108.24.93.190 changed "mid-1990s to the early 2000s [onwards]" to "ranging from the early 2000s to the present"


 * 2606.* cuts a mid-article photo from Millennials as "not related to the article's content and no ref"
 * 108.24.93.190 cuts a mid-article photo from Millennials with no edit summary


 * 2606.* cuts mention of some research ending the Millennial cohort in the mid-1990s
 * 108.24.93.190 does the same

As with all past 2606.* IPs, 108.24.93.190 has edited no other articles beyond a handful of generational cohorts, in the month they've been active. --McGeddon (talk) 12:31, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

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I didn't know it was a violation to have two accounts. I am sorry if did but I like to have privacy because I don't like my accounts being watched. I am not really aware of the rules hear and I only just started figuring things out. I am still new to this and I am trying to make definitions more accurate but still make mistakes in the prosess. I keep changing the generation z date because since millennials last from 1980 to the early 2000s by most then why start the one with the early 2000s? I still think its more reasonable to put the starting date at the early 2000s. Not many people us the earlier dates as much. I just want to do things new for once and try to make marketers to think about starting the early 2000s as generation z if they end the millennials in 2000. I won't sockpuppet and I will try harder next time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.24.93.190 (talk) 14:15, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Please clarify this: are you confirming that User:Wwwma is your other account here? --McGeddon (talk) 14:28, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Yes that is my other account but I forgot what the name was. So I gave up loging in with it. I use Ip address to protect my privacy and thought it was not a second account because I would think to create a second one I would have to make one myself and didn't know ip addresses counted. I thought when you were signed out it didn't count as having two accounts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.24.93.190 (talk) 14:44, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
 * On my talk page you recently pretended to be "new user" who is "not aware of all the rules"  and now you say you're longterm User:Wwwma with the multiple IPs. You say you just forgot the name of your other account.  Are you saying you also somehow forgot that you were indefinitely blocked?  --DynaGirl (talk) 15:59, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Note to closing admin and for the record: User:Wwwma (who can't comment here because they're indef blocked) is stating on their talk page that the IP's claim about Wwwma being their "other account" is false and they don't know who the IP is. --McGeddon (talk) 16:44, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * 2606:6000:610a:9000:25a9:c749:35b0:18d0 geolocates to California, while 108.24.93.190 geolocates to New Jersey. Thus, it's with great confidence that I can say the two IPs are unrelated. I don't see a strong enough connection with the IP to the account to make any blocks at this point. Mike V • Talk 14:40, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

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Uses multiple IPs, including this one, to edit war over unsourced edits to Millenials. This IP self-identified as Wwwma on 6/30, above. See also,. Also block evasion and WP:NPA violations.  General Ization  Talk   01:23, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Also please note the distinctive spelling of "vandalisim" (sic) in the edit summaries of and .  General Ization   Talk   01:27, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

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