Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/XavierGreen/Archive

10 April 2015

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This user is clearly using this IP to avoid scrutiny, and to give himself an edge in edit wars. Note this recent edit to Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. Xavier comes back later with a revert using the same language. Note this edit to the page Quasi-War, where Xavier uses the typo "belligerant". Coicidentally, the IP also uses this typo for similar edits. What's more, both the account "Xavier" and the IP have made similar edits in quick succession on Quasi-War. Please deal with this. RGloucester — ☎ 17:07, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:36, 18 April 2015 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  16:12, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Dealing with the last piece of evidence first, the "quick succession" doesn't look that quick...those diffs are five days apart from each other. Second, there were multiple editors involved in the edit warring and at least one other named account made the same edit so it isn't necessarily so clear. The misspelling is a possible...but note that the word was spelled correctly in the article in the same edit where the summary was misspelled. This isn't consistent enough to be compelling for me. I'll leave this for others to evaluate. Since isn't able to respond at the present or add evidence to strengthen his case, we may want to hold this case open as a courtesy until April 25 May 3 which should give him ample time after returning to reply if he wishes.
 * Not having seen a response, I'm going to go ahead and close.