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11 February 2015

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New editor AfungusAmongus tries to change the lead on the page Men's rights movement. He is particularly concerned with the word "oppression" and the phrase "what they consider to be". After his changes are reverted, editor Xoviat comes along and makes the exact same edit as AfungusAmongus. Both accounts use MRA sources rather than secondary sources in support of their edits (conference on men's issues, mensrightssydney). While it's possible that this is the result of coincidence or meatpuppetry rather than sockpuppetry – Reddit's MRA crowd is once again outraged over Wikipedia's treatment of their movement – I think that sockpuppetry is the likelier scenario because no other redditor or Wikipedia editor seems to share the same fixation on those exact same words in the lead. -- Sonicyouth86 (talk) 14:46, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

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I have one other account, but I have not used it in years. I will be happy to reveal the name of my other account privately to an admin if requested. You simply are not happy that other editors are disagreeing with you. Xoviat (talk) 15:12, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I want to make one other clarification: I noted that I agreed that "what they consider to be" was a good phrase. The other user disagrees with that claim. I was only interested in the "oppression" wording, because it contradicts the claims of prominent groups. Xoviat (talk) 20:44, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
and are technically ❌. Yunshui 雲 水 13:01, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing with no action taken. Mike V • Talk 23:43, 13 February 2015 (UTC)