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09 February 2013

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All four editors have been repeatedly removing relevant high quality citations coauthored by Richard Bucala from the Macrophage migration inhibitory factor article (see this discussion). Furthermore these editors have made a number of additional unconstructive edits to this articles including repeated removal of a relevant infobox (PBB/4282), interwiki links, etc. Maintaining this article with this on-going disruptive editing is becoming tiresome. This behavior started in November 2009 and despite my attempts to communicate with these editors (see Talk) has continued to this day. The following example diffs document the removal of these citations: Furthermore, there is this pair of remarkably similar edits including identical out of date template parameters: Finally all of these accounts appear to be single purpose accounts with few or no edits to other articles. Boghog (talk) 17:04, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
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Concerning the list of additional suspects below, I note the following similarities in these two edits: Both edit summaries contain the identical phrase "Please be responsible!" and both edits add qualifiers to the text (allegedly, purportedly, etc.) without providing any evidence that the original text is not reliable. Finally the general pattern of edits on both Macrophage migration inhibitory factor and Kevin J. Tracey by these two sets of editors closely resemble each other (e.g., inserting similar COI, notability, advert tags) while at the same time slowly removing various parts of the article without explanation or justification. Boghog (talk) 16:00, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
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I also note that Kevin J. Tracey and Richard Bucala (who has published large number of papers on Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) and whose citations have been systematically removed from the MIF article) are both involved in inflammation research. Boghog (talk) 16:23, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Finally I note that Kevin J. Tracey and Richard Bucala have co-authored two papers and have been listed as co-inventors on a number of patents (,, , and ). Boghog (talk) 16:32, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

is another editor who has recently started with similar types of edits on the Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (see diff and diff) Boghog (talk) 18:20, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

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 * Apart from Yurasis Dragon, all accounts are . WilliamH (talk) 17:41, 9 February 2013 (UTC)


 * The following had password resets done by the same IP within an hour, no edits in between them:


 * Lonnie Ramati was created by one of those accounts and has another sock that is for CU purposes.
 * There is a boatload more users I couldn't list that are likely by pure technical evidence, but no truly matching behavior other than improving Wikipedia could be found.
 * I do need another CU to look at the two IP ranges I checked during this investigation.
 * I also found some counter socks at Sockpuppet investigations/Ikumansuma.
 * does look like a duck by the evidence presented above.
 * I do recommend that people pour over the articles' histories edited by these socks, as there are very possibly more, even that I saw, but couldn't report. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  07:54, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * This request has been open for 10 days, we'll just have to go with what we have since other CUs are unwilling to comment. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  16:40, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * is also . ✅ . I'll do a more indepth sleeper check a little later, but i'm blocking the lot for now. --  DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  22:14, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
 * - --  DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  22:16, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I found a few more possibles, but I didn't see enough to mention them here. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  19:08, 27 February 2013 (UTC)