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• {{checkuser|1=Bellpepper2}}
• {{checkuser|1=MohammedMohammed}}
• {{checkip|1=2607:F2C0:943A:B100:C833:AEA6:69CF:4913}}

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Bellpepper2 appeared after the article :Kathleen Wynne was semi-protected by User:Black Kite, and continued the same edit warring that MohammedMohammed was engaged in. Compare [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kathleen_Wynne&diff=775493117&oldid=775492883 this] with [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kathleen_Wynne&diff=778140016&oldid=778138033 this] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kathleen_Wynne&diff=778137221&oldid=778102183 this]. On :Kevin O'Leary, compare [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_O%27Leary&diff=prev&oldid=770076152 this] with [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_O%27Leary&diff=prev&oldid=764293692 this]. MohammedMohammed has already been checkuser-blocked by User:Bbb23. I'm suggesting a checkuser also to check for sleeper socks which are possible in my opinion. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 22:56, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

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{{confirmed}} + {{checkuser|LineCoding}}. Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:51, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

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• {{checkuser|1=Bell1985}}
• {{checkip|1=99.255.192.126}}
• {{checkip|1=70.48.150.8}}

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Based on behaviour alone, 99.255.192.126 seems to be, in my opinion, a sock (involved only in areas Ontario Teacher was involved in, making almost the exact same edits). I'm basing my report of 70.48.150.8 on the possibility that Bell1985 is a sock, given the similarity of that account to User:LineCoding.

Compare:

• [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maxime_Bernier&diff=prev&oldid=778060240 This] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maxime_Bernier&type=revision&diff=778252063&oldid=778245659 this] (regarding Bell1985)
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maxime_Bernier&diff=prev&oldid=779557418 This] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maxime_Bernier&diff=prev&oldid=780122268 this] (regarding 70.48.150.8)
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_O%27Leary&diff=prev&oldid=768265133 This] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_O%27Leary&diff=prev&oldid=763379660 this] (regarding 99.255.192.126)
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maxime_Bernier&diff=prev&oldid=780389031 This] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maxime_Bernier&diff=prev&oldid=778060240 this] (regarding 99.255.192.126)

Not all of these comparisons are exactly the same, but they are very similar (mentioning NATO and the UN, and involving whether or not Maxime Bernier is a "libertarian"), and all of these users started or re-started editing after (or shortly before), a series of Ontario Teacher socks were indeffed. The first edit from Bell1985 happened two minutes before User:Bbb23 [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ASockpuppet_investigations%2FOntario_Teacher_BFA_BEd&type=revision&diff=778252396&oldid=778249414 closed the previous SPI report], making it, I think, reasonable to suspect User:Bell1985 could have been missed at the last report, and I think another check to rule out a connection would be reasonable. Simplexity22 (talk) 03:38, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

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I'm not sure what this is all about. I've checked the contribs of {{ping|Ontario Teacher BFA BEd}} you are talking about. It doesn't seem he or she has ever edited the Maxime Bernier article. What bothers me is that it seems this accusation might prevent me from editing any pages that this user has edited in the past, for fear of being accused of being the same person, and I don't think that's fair. Bell1985 (talk) 19:43, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Also, 70.48.150.8 is me. Sorry, I guess I forgot to login. Bell1985 (talk) 19:49, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

{{confirmed}}, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:49, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

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• {{checkuser|1=Buffalo Soldiers}}

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Same editing style and topics. freshacconci (✉) 01:22, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

• I wanted to clarify, per the comment below. User:William Bouguereau was blocked as a confirmed sock of User:Ontario Teacher BFA BEd. William Bouguereau edited at Art Renewal Center. Buffalo Soldiers edits at Art Renewal Center and topics on Canadian politics. Other Ontario Teacher BFA BEd socks edit at Canadian politics. All socks use the same manner of writing and all IP socks edit from Toronto, as does Ontario Teacher BFA BEd. Editing today at Art Renewal Center was made by Buffalo Soldiers and a number of Toronto IP addresses, all making the same edits, adding the same information, making the same reverts There is too much overlap with Ontario Teacher BFA BEd and proven socks to be a coincidence. freshacconci (✉) 03:55, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
• Also, if Buffalo Soldiers wishes to edit using just the one account and not engage in edit wars, perhaps we can move on with this. I'm not opposed to improving the article in question, as long as policy and guidelines are followed. That would of course include only editing using the one account and not edit warring using different IP addressed in order to appear to be different editors. freshacconci (✉) 04:01, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

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To my knowledge, I have not edited any of the same WP pages as this user. Buffalo Soldiers (talk) 03:46, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

{{confirmed}}, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:11, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

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• {{checkuser|1=Art Historian}}

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After the last sock was confirmed as Ontario Teacher BFA BEd and continuing to edit as an IP from Toronto, this new SPI account appears making identical edits. Not even attempting to hide it. freshacconci (✉) 18:37, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

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Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:35, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

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• {{checkuser|1=Politico Facts}}

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Another one, created on the 29th, reverted to sockpuppet's version on Dalton McGuinty, same style of writing in edit summary. Simplexity22 (talk) 23:44, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

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{{confirmed}}, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:11, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

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• {{checkuser|1=TDot416}}

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Compare [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=789426739&oldid=788188916&title=Dalton_McGuinty&type=revision this] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dalton_McGuinty&type=revision&diff=786216660&oldid=784191036 this]. Exactly the same edit, made two weeks later by a brand new account. Simplexity22 (talk) 07:54, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

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• {{Inprogress}} - Katie^talk 12:23, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
• {{confirmed}} plus {{checkuser|1= Sandystormz14}}. Blocked, tagged, closed. Katie^talk 12:26, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

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• {{checkip|1=199.7.157.124}}
• {{checkip|1=199.119.233.137}}
• {{checkip|1=70.48.151.138}}
• {{checkip|1=199.119.233.131}}
• {{checkip|1=199.7.157.34}}
• {{checkip|1=69.204.24.248}}

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These IPs, which are clearly being used by the same (or at least, a related) person (all of them are trying to add information about an "IED video", or reference said IED and video in their edit summary), have suspiciously similar behaviour to Ontario Teacher BFA BEd.

• The IPs started editing Omar Khadr less than a day after Ontario Teacher's latest sock (User:AcademicHistorian) was checkuser blocked.
• They have very similar WP:IDHT style behaviour to Ontario Teacher (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&type=revision&diff=792541796&oldid=792363487 this edit summary], notice how half of the previous editor's point was missed or ignored. Compare that interaction to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&type=revision&diff=791627021&oldid=791619597 this], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&diff=prev&oldid=791266454 this] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&type=revision&diff=791220926&oldid=791213814 this]).
• The first IP's edit summary, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&diff=prev&oldid=791823143 here], seems to be an allusion to a dispute Ontario Teacher was involved in ("Unlike the grenade, this one is not disputed" see: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&diff=prev&oldid=791096264] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&diff=prev&oldid=791142358][https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&diff=prev&oldid=791235912] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&diff=prev&oldid=791143957][https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AOmar_Khadr&type=revision&diff=791234288&oldid=791230580], etc.).
• The first two IPs are part of the same /24 ranges used on Jean Chrétien, Dalton McGuinty and Kevin O'Leary; and the third IP is part of the same [https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-70-48-148-0-1/pft?s=70.48.151.138 /22 range] used on Kevin O'Leary (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Kevin_O%27Leary&diff=prev&oldid=763761826 this]).
• 199.7.157.0/24 and 199.119.233.0/24 were both used by Ontario Teacher on Omar Khadr previous to the checkuser block. Compare [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&type=revision&diff=791079919&oldid=791079663 this] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&type=revision&diff=790907643&oldid=790899049 this] to the diffs I've provided above.

Simplexity22 (talk) 05:24, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

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Adding 199.119.233.131. Same range, same disputed edit. [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&diff=792696373&oldid=792675090] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&diff=prev&oldid=792710866] Meters (talk) 03:53, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

+ 199.7.157.34 [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&type=revision&diff=793167757&oldid=792874647]. This type of constant 're-hashing' of opinions, without directly addressing (some of) the other editors' concerns is very typical of the master (compare to: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_O%27Leary&diff=prev&oldid=770554632] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_O%27Leary&diff=prev&oldid=770631207] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_O%27Leary&diff=prev&oldid=775229625] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_O%27Leary&diff=next&oldid=775443686] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_O%27Leary&diff=prev&oldid=774590274] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_O%27Leary&diff=prev&oldid=774653742] etc.). Simplexity22 (talk) 02:49, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

+ 69.204.24.248: an IP who's only purpose has been to revert-to ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dalton_McGuinty&type=revision&diff=794269141&oldid=791222412] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dalton_McGuinty&type=revision&diff=794311812&oldid=794310803]) and build-upon Ontario Teacher's edits to Dalton McGuinty, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dalton_McGuinty&diff=prev&oldid=794269141 this edit summary] in particular makes very little sense (seems very unlikely a person who doesn't "know much about Canadian politics" would stumble upon an article about a former provincial premier, and even less so to take an interest in its content or to look through the page history), other edit summaries are very similar to IPs used by Ontario Teacher (compare [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dalton_McGuinty&type=revision&diff=794427954&oldid=794371073 this] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dalton_McGuinty&type=revision&diff=789787634&oldid=789706789 this]), and more similar IDHT [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dalton_McGuinty&type=revision&diff=794427954&oldid=794371073 here]. The geolocation is unusual, but close. Simplexity22 (talk) 00:08, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

: I've blocked {{IP|69.204.24.248}} as an obvious block evasion / sock puppet. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 01:12, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

{{User:Sro23/ClerkAtWork}}

• IP's have gone stale by now. Closing the case. Sro23 (talk) 00:45, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

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• {{checkuser|1=StarsandStripes}}

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Identical edits at Art Renewal Center as blocked sock User:Art Historian. freshacconci (✉) 00:30, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

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Note to CU, in case it helps: the username here (and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AArt_Renewal_Center&type=revision&diff=794433916&oldid=794433464 this]) leads me to believe this could be the IP I just reported above (69.204.24.248), given that IP geolocates to Buffalo. If that's the case, and the IPs don't connect (since Ontario Teacher has admitted to living in Toronto, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:William_Bouguereau&oldid=785317826] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Kevin_O%27Leary&diff=prev&oldid=763761826]), I've listed some additional behavioural evidence above which I believe links that IP to the master. Simplexity22 (talk) 00:40, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

• Already blocked. Case closed. Vanjagenije (talk) 17:32, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

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• {{checkip|1=199.119.233.236}}
• {{checkip|1=199.7.157.51}}
• {{checkip|1=199.119.233.175}}

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Identical edits as other socks of Ontario Teacher BFA BEd. Reverted restored edits that were last reverted by most recent sock. freshacconci (✉) 01:34, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

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+ 199.7.157.51 and 199.119.233.175, same edit and suspected ranges. Simplexity22 (talk) 05:39, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

{{User:Sro23/ClerkAtWork}}

• IP's are stale, article semi-protected. Closing. Sro23 (talk) 00:45, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

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• {{checkuser|1=BobLawblaws}}

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All edits (Aug.12) are to typical Ontario Teacher BFA BEd topics:

1. Omar Khadr [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&diff=prev&oldid=795141734], as with edits by Ontario Teacher BFA BEd sock AcademicHistorian [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/AcademicHistorian] - see 27July 2017 above.
2. Proportional Representation, by far Ontario Teacher BFA BEd's primary "target" in WP - over 200 edits. Typical Ontario edits depreciating PR and puffing FPTP:
3. * [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=prev&oldid=795142697], "No source". The second deleted sentence is sourced, with an example, in the next sentence. Ontario Teacher is Canadian.
4. * [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=prev&oldid=795143067], "More professional wording", renaming "Fairness" to "Seat Distribution" - of course the subject is fair seat distribution. The words "fair" and "fairness" are pervasive in the literature (see refs 2 & 19 in the section). The term "free and fair elections" is a cliché, a collocation. Ref 17, Forder, an anti-PR academic, has a whole chapter in his book entitled "Fairness".
5. * [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=prev&oldid=795143293], deleting section "Wider benefits to society". Ontario already deleted this section before, without comment, on Aug.25 2015 [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=677788347&oldid=677788265].
6. Talk:Patrick Kane, an ice hockey player. About 98% of Ontario's edits are political, of the rest several concern ice hockey: Toronto Maple Leafs[https://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/usersearch.py?name=Ontario+Teacher+BFA+BEd&page=Toronto_Maple_Leafs&server=enwiki&max=]; Pittsburgh Penguins[https://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/usersearch.py?name=Ontario+Teacher+BFA+BEd&page=Pittsburgh_Penguins&server=enwiki&max=]; Don Cherry[https://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/usersearch.py?name=Ontario+Teacher+BFA+BEd&page=Don+Cherry&server=enwiki&max=]. BalCoder (talk) 11:22, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

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{{User:Sro23/ClerkAtWork}}

• {{awaitingadmin}} - {{Duck}} per diffs provided. Please indef this sockpuppet. Sro23 (talk) 00:49, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

::Sro23 - {{done}}. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 00:52, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

:::Thanks, closing. Sro23 (talk) 00:57, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

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• {{checkip|1=2607:f2c0:94f9:1500:e408:599c:b8ff:5873}}

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TekSavvy IP which geolocates to Toronto (typical of the master), same /64 range that was used a week ago to edit Jean Chrétien (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean_Chr%C3%A9tien&diff=next&oldid=802854845 this]). For some diffs, compare [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&type=revision&diff=804116756&oldid=800760945 this] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&diff=prev&oldid=791823143 this], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&diff=prev&oldid=792541796 this], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&diff=prev&oldid=792696373 this], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&diff=prev&oldid=792710866 this] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&diff=prev&oldid=793167757 this] (i.e. "Video footage was also discovered of Khadr assembling and deploying Improvised Explosive Devices").

For evidence the IPv4s who's edits I've linked above are socks, see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Ontario_Teacher_BFA_BEd/Archive#27_July_2017 this report]. Simplexity22 (talk) 00:32, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

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• I've rangeblocked the /64. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:49, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

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• {{checkuser|1=Neil Gamon}}
• ‎{{checkIP|1=199.7.157.95}}
• ‎{{checkIP|1=2607:fea8:1d00:dc:ed01:568e:c817:e4a1}}

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All edits deal with voting systems, a favorite subject of the master. [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=804251263&oldid=804229949 First edit] is to revert a dozen or so edits to a previous revision by User:BobLawblaws, who is indeffed as a sock of OTBB. JBL (talk) 20:58, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

: Have added two IP addresses, which are making similar edits in parallel and also geolocate to Ontario, Canada. --JBL (talk) 21:58, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

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I'm from Kitchener. The other IP editor (according to Google) is from Toronto. This might not sound like much, but the thing is, our edits were only made 12 minutes apart. It's a 1.5 - 2hr drive depending on traffic! So, it's absolutely impossible for one person to be in two places at once. In any event, I support the other editor's contributions. There's only good faith edits here as far as I can tell. 2607:FEA8:1D00:DC:ED01:568E:C817:E4A1 (talk) 03:44, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

:The IPv4 is a wireless user where the host is based out of Toronto whereas the IPv6 is a static broadband user. It's entirely possible that this is the same person. Both are editing on a page that Ontario Teacher has frequented. Likely these are socks. EvergreenFir (talk) 03:50, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

::I don't see anyone named Ontario Teacher in the edit log. What on earth are you talking about? 2607:FEA8:1D00:DC:ED01:568E:C817:E4A1 (talk) 03:57, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

{{Re|Doug Weller}} or other admin - was a CU done at all? There's another account I suspect as being a sock based on editing at Proportional representation, and I see a CU was requested. Curious if one was done and this account I suspect is cleared or not. EvergreenFir (talk) 19:21, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

• {{Requestandendorse}} - Please, compare to previous socks. Vanjagenije (talk) 21:48, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
• Account is identical to {{user|BobLawblaws}}. {{bnt}} IPs blocked for 72 hours. Doug Weller talk 16:10, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
• {{re|EvergreenFir}} Yes, but if he’s using a different IP address I wouldn’t have found him. Doug Weller talk 19:34, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

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The Oct 11 timestamps, around 11:00, are very un-Ontario - visiting another time-zone? Otherwise, unmistakably Ontario:

• Mixed-Member_Systems, an article created by Ontario (by hi-jacking the "Semi-proportional representation" article while providing no relevant RS to support a move [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mixed-Member_Systems&diff=696127731&oldid=695716395] and claiming a non-existent consensus [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Mixed-member_proportional_representation&diff=696225345&oldid=696225080]):
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mixed-Member_Systems&diff=prev&oldid=804822390], replacing the phrase "single winner" by "Plurality/Majoritarian". This was a fixation of Ontario's on the Proportional Representation page, e.g [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=695724455&diff=prev].
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mixed-Member_Systems&diff=prev&oldid=804822782], "...the will of their party's political leader". Another curious idée fixe of Ontario's, detached from all RSs, that party lists are controlled by the party's "leader", witness one of Ontario's earliest posts [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=677232101&diff=prev].
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mixed-Member_Systems&diff=prev&oldid=804822902] more "single winner" -> "Plurality/Majoritarian".
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mixed-Member_Systems&diff=prev&oldid=804823028], and the previous edit, place Dual-member proportional representation in the "Mixed-member systems" category of a table rather than in "Proportional representation" - echoing one of Ontario's paramount aims, denying the proportionality of the "mixed-member proportional" system, e.g.[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=688582044]: "It is, quite frankly, in the middle", fundamentally misunderstanding, or mis-stating, how the system works.
  Also, the said table itself is an Ontario construct [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mixed-Member_Systems&diff=681400671&oldid=681224278] and should have been deleted as spam (WP:Project spam [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2015_Archive_Dec_1#User:Ontario_Teacher_BFA_BEd]) but somehow escaped.
• The Template:Electoral systems edit [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Electoral_systems&diff=prev&oldid=804822272], too, is true to Ontario's mixed-is-not-proportional principle. That this is even possible is also due to Ontario, who replaced the template's unambiguous classification, which had served nine blameless years, by one that is ambiguous and so open to the confusion and doubt that Ontario sowed [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Electoral_systems&diff=695899176&oldid=689262356]. One of only two people to add an item to the template since then was duly confused [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Electoral_systems&diff=747295643&oldid=709565036], an edit that now "ChampionshipNights" is "correcting". BalCoder (talk) 18:09, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

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Hello everyone,

I'm not sure why no one bothered to post on my talk page about this accusation. I have only found out about it now. If you're going to make accusations, at least let the person know. ChampionshipNights (talk) 02:17, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

{{re|BU Rob13}} This person is likely a sock. Compare [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=prev&oldid=807928443 their removal of content here] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=prev&oldid=804279441 this past sock]. EvergreenFir (talk) 22:03, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

• {{U|ChampionshipNights}} is {{possilikely}}. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 00:00, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
• {{re|EvergreenFir}} My comment refers only to the technical data. From a technical perspective, I can say no better than possilikely. Their behavior will be evaluated by a clerk when they get around to it. {{U|Sro23}}, perhaps, as he's already working on a related report below. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 11:47, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
• Closing based on the below; now confirmed. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 12:02, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

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Repeating [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omar_Khadr&diff=prev&oldid=804116756 this edit], see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Ontario_Teacher_BFA_BEd/Archive#07_October_2017 my previous report] for evidence.

Geolocates to Stockholm, which is odd, but it's public wifi, so entirely possible it's the same person. Simplexity22 (talk) 22:01, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

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Hello everyone,

Like I just posted above, I found out about this accusation recently. I'm not sure why no one bothered to let me know on my talk page. Anyway, I think accusing the Swedish editor is rather far-fetched. I you look at the Swedish editor's edit history, they have been editing similar articles for several months, so I doubt anyone is flying back and forth from country to country every weekend. I guess when it comes to this sort of thing, an accusation alone is enough to convict someone though. I'm glad our criminal justice system does not work this way. ChampionshipNights (talk) 02:21, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

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• IP now inactive, page protected. Closing. Sro23 (talk) 17:27, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

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Willowravine's first edits (both minor) were on Oct 9/10, about 8 hours after sock Neil Gamon was blocked. The edits referenced below as evidence of sock puppetry were all made on Oct 28.

• Proportional representation:
• Compare [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=prev&oldid=807510346 renaming] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=prev&oldid=807510397 promotion] of section heading with [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=804361022&oldid=804360227 renaming by blocked sock], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=next&oldid=804361022 promotion by blocked sock], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=693891294&oldid=693702916 renaming by master] ("Two tier systems" changed to "Mixed Member Systems", near bottom), [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=693892482&oldid=693892302 promotion by master].
• Compare [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=prev&oldid=807511340 intolerance of any mention of sortition] with the master's [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=729599959&oldid=729599059 first removal], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=730060004&oldid=730017032 subsequent refusal to compromise].

• Mixed-member proportional representation:
• Observe [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mixed-Member_Proportional&diff=prev&oldid=807512121 reverting of MMP lead section], and compare with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mixed-Member_Proportional&diff=702823502&oldid=702571007 master's version]. Note the inclusion of biproportional apportionment, which has nothing to do with MMP. This may be an attempt to support the misclassification of biproportional apportionment as a mixed-member system on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&oldid=807516343 restructured PR acticle] (Section 5). Also note the idea that MMP is semi-proportional being reintroduced in the MMP lead.

• Semi-proportional representation:
• Observe portrayal of MMP as semi-proportional ( [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Semi-proportional_representation&diff=prev&oldid=807514356 making claim], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Semi-proportional_representation&diff=prev&oldid=807514421 strengthening claim], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Semi-proportional_representation&diff=prev&oldid=807517041 adding MMP section to semi-PR article]), an obsession of the master ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=688924751&oldid=688916506 example 1], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=692847878&oldid=692847164 example 2], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=693681303&oldid=693655993 example 3], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=714660293&oldid=714283177 example 4]).
• Observe failed attempt to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Semi-proportional_representation&diff=prev&oldid=807512988 hi-jack semi-PR article], as previously done by the master ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Semi-proportional_representation&diff=702825144&oldid=702568308 edit], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mixed-Member_Systems&diff=696127731&oldid=695716395 move]). Presumably Willowravine was unable to complete the move, as they [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Semi-proportional_representation&diff=807514155&oldid=807512988 self-reverted] and pasted the master's content [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mixed-Member_Systems&diff=prev&oldid=807513797 over the redirect]. Willowravine later [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Mixed-Member_Proportional&diff=prev&oldid=807514763 renamed the MMP article] with no attempt to discuss.

Rhys Goldstein (talk) 03:46, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

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• So, I just found out about the accusation about me recently (too late to defend myself. Please read above). I'm going to let Willow know about the accusation about him, because he at least deserves that much.

:Anyway, here's what I think. Willow may be Ontario based on editing the same articles. Or, Rhys may be Ontario's sock due to A. being Canadian and B. exclusively editing electoral system articles. Here's something to think about, what if both Willow and Rhys are both Ontario's socks, and this fake edit war is designed to clear one of their names. This way, no matter what happens, Ontario can continue to edit electoral system articles with impunity.

:On the other hand, like I posted above, someone accused a Swedish IP editor of being Ontario, even though the Swedish editor has been editing for months about similar topics. This is obviously a false accusation. So, it is also possible that neither of them is Ontario, and I owe both Rhys and Willow an apology. Anyway, Happy Halloween everybody!!! ChampionshipNights (talk) 02:59, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

• I had by far the most interactions with user Ontario (e.g[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Proportional_representation/Archive_5] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Proportional_representation/Archive_6]), so know his edits better than anyone, and I endorse each of Rhys Goldstein's points above. Just as with ChampionshipNights (14 October 2017 above), there is not the teeniest doubt that these edits come from Ontario.

::{{small|1=(BTW, biproportional apportionment, which Rhys Goldstein wonders about, was originally introduced as a result of a copy & paste error by Ontario: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=679896905] part of which was mis-copied from the PR article lead para.that begins {{tq|"Mixed member proportional representation (MMP), also called .."}}, starting at {{tq|"Voters have two votes, one for ..."}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&oldid=679850952] {{snd}} Ontario obliviously copied to the end of the para. Carelessness is an Ontario tell. The bit on sortition was removed by someone four months later [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mixed-member_proportional_representation&diff=700160158&oldid=696422121], but the biproportional apportionment bit, which as Goldstein says has nothing whatever to do with the article, survived over two years, despite the article's circa 80 watchers. So much for WP as a collaborative enterprise.)}}

:--BalCoder (talk) 17:42, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

:: BalCoder, I removed the BiProportional Appointment bit, as it seems it's out of place in this article. I hope this is what you wanted.

:: What I was saying before is that Rhys is A. Canadian (maybe from Ontario) B. has exclusively edited electoral system articles, and C. seems to have an axe to grind against PR[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=807217597&oldid=807216215] It all seems very fishy to me. What do you think?ChampionshipNights (talk) 22:10, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

• {{requestandendorse}} - Please compare this account to ChampionshipNights & blocked sockpuppets like {{checkuser|1=Neil Gamon}}. Sro23 (talk) 02:03, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
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• {{checkuser|1=Neil Gamon}}
• {{checkuser|1=ArtMajor}}
• {{checkuser|1=Willowravine}}
• {{checkuser|1=Fireflyfan99}}
• {{bnt}}. Closing. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 12:00, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

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Compare [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dalton_McGuinty&diff=prev&oldid=811461727 this] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dalton_McGuinty&type=revision&diff=786693952&oldid=786692786 this]. Both edits add information about the same scandal to the same location in the article's lead, with very similar wording, using the same reference.

Note, despite the edit summary for the first diff, nothing was transferred, content was added. Simplexity22 (talk) 19:59, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

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• {{Endorse}} - Please compare to blocked socks in the archive. Sro23 (talk) 01:01, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

This account ended up being checked as part of the investigation below. --Deskana (talk) 22:15, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

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Opening a new case as the previous was already endorsed.

Compare [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean_Chr%C3%A9tien&diff=prev&oldid=810567095 this] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean_Chr%C3%A9tien&diff=next&oldid=780537779 this] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean_Chr%C3%A9tien&diff=next&oldid=780710087 this]. Simplexity22 (talk) 01:56, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

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In case it isn't 100% clear {{noping|LovelyTree}} is a sock, take a look at this (i.e. ""pro-abortion rights" and "anti-abortion rights" are also lopsided in favour of abortion and seek to replace them with [...] "pro-choice" and "pro-life" respectively."). Simplexity22 (talk) 00:06, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

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• {{checkuser|Willowravine}} (account used for comparison)
• {{checkuser|00Kelvin}}
• {{checkuser|LovelyTree}}
• {{checkuser|PatrickPiper}}

{{likely}} that the following accounts are related to the above:

• {{checkuser|Cenotaph11}}

There could be more, but they didn't stand out. --Deskana (talk) 22:15, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

• {{awaitingadmin}} Please indef unblocked socks. Sro23 (talk) 02:02, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
• {{re|Sro23}} {{Done}}. GAB^gab 04:30, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
• Tagged, closing. Sro23 (talk) 05:27, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

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Reverting to sockpuppet's version on Rob Ford (i.e. Special:Permalink/811486313). Geolocates to Toronto, range has been used by master in the past (see archive). Simplexity22 (talk) 02:53, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

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• {{IPblocked}}. GAB^gab 21:20, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

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Compare [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lisa_Raitt&type=revision&diff=813757214&oldid=811901508 this] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lisa_Raitt&diff=prev&oldid=811338327 this]. The second IP is on the same /64, and added information about an ethics scandal to the same article (i.e. compare [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Morneau&diff=prev&oldid=813557412 this] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Morneau&diff=prev&oldid=813558021 this] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Morneau&type=revision&diff=813756785&oldid=813558172 this]). Simplexity22 (talk) 04:05, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

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• It's been a few days since the IP's last edited. Please re-report if activity resumes. Sro23 (talk) 22:37, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

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See previous report; activity on the /64 has resumed. Simplexity22 (talk) 05:35, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

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Range blocked. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:06, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

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I writing out a response to a BLPN thread about Doug Ford Jr. and realized about halfway through that I was really writing a sockpuppet investigation. This is what I had written at BLPN: this past September when Ford declared he was running for mayor again ([https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2017/09/08/doug-ford-will-run-for-mayor-in-2018-rematch.html]) a stream of idle accounts and IPs turned up to try to polish this article, like [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_Ford_Jr.&type=revision&diff=801136806&oldid=799325454 here] (Nocturnalnow's sockpuppet) and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_Ford_Jr.&type=revision&diff=804740802&oldid=801912272 here] (account created that day). Once the mayoral race formally opened in January we see more of the same [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_Ford_Jr.&diff=818123572&oldid=817898196 here] (account that had 3 edits from 5 years earlier prior to this [WilliamBurn 166]) and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_Ford_Jr.&diff=822156834&oldid=820022574 here] (account that hadn't edited in 3 years [Soulspinr]) and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_Ford_Jr.&diff=823035007&oldid=823028030 this one] (editor with a history of socking [Nocturnalnow]), and since he announced he was going to seek the Ontario PC leadership (instead?) we get [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_Ford_Jr.&type=revision&diff=823214735&oldid=823160508 these clearly promotional edits] by two IPs with a small ISP in common, later [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_Ford_Jr.&type=revision&diff=823231562&oldid=823219373 restored] by Nocturnalnow and a small mobile ISP from the same region.

It was running diffs on AstronautPants that tipped me off: they're an account created on the day after {{noping|Kelvin00}} (sock) was blocked, and edited the same article Kelvin00 had been editing, Patrick Brown (politician). Their 11th edit was a very large content [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stephen_Harper&diff=prev&oldid=815103437 removal] from the indefinitely semiprotected Stephen Harper, having earlier complained about the article being a [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Stephen_Harper&diff=prev&oldid=815103240 "smearjob"]. They followed that up just recently by jumping into a dispute at Doug Ford Jr. which had been described by a different editor, Nocturnalnow, as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Doug_Ford_Jr.&diff=823162927&oldid=752767629 "smear"]. It turns out that Nocturnalnow has their own sockpuppets who have also edited Patrick Brown ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patrick_Brown_(politician)&diff=799842197&oldid=799471022], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patrick_Brown_(politician)&diff=801168830&oldid=801139901]) and Doug Ford Jr. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_Ford_Jr.&diff=801135862&oldid=800214129]). Of course it should be noted that there is obvious topic overlap between these three individuals, all are Canadian Conservative politicians and both Brown and Ford are in the news recently, but I think that there's more to it than that, and I'm requesting CheckUser on all of the named accounts to confirm the connections and locate sleepers.

I'm not as familiar with this SPI but I see from the archive that the master is on TekSavvy, and I had noted earlier that several of the IPs involved in the edit war on Doug Ford are TekSavvy and geolocate to Toronto (one geolocates to the Manitoba-NWT border but that is obviously bogus), and a third geolocates to a small mobile ISP also operating in Toronto. I see also that the IPv6 is on a range that has been blocked from this case before. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 18:05, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

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{{reply to|Bbb23}} I doubt Nocturnalnow is Ontario Teacher. (1) The Edit Counter/Time cards are very different, Nocturnalnow's does in fact look like that of a retired (and retiring) editor - extremely regular. (2) I interacted with Ontario when he began editing in August 2015 and have little doubt he was a complete newbie - his first edits were inept; Nocturnalnow was already editing by then, not particularly ineptly. (3) They both edited on 3 Oct.2015 between 3:20 and 3:50 ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=20151006020100&limit=7&contribs=user&target=Ontario_Teacher_BFA_BEd Ontario], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=20151004003200&limit=7&contribs=user&target=Nocturnalnow Nocturnalnow]): Not many people are capabable of keeping two simultaneous edit sessions separate, certainly not Ontario. Here is an example where he tripped up while repeatedly pasting the same text, once inadvertently using an IP ( [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&action=history&limit=8&offset=20150825143800]) probably a separate tab in the same browser (all those IP's edits are Ontario, 100%). Of course that doesn't prove much and I could be wrong.

For what it's worth, I also doubt Soulspinr is Ontario. As I say above, I believe he was a complete newbie when he started, although admittedly Soulspinr hadn't done much before that. Soulspinr's adding of tallies to various 2015 election templates suggests an altruistic streak completely absent in Ontario Teacher. --BalCoder (talk) 13:15, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

• The following accounts are {{confirmed}}:
• {{checkuser|AstronautPants}}
• {{checkuser|WilliamBurn 166}}
• {{checkuser|Soulspinr}}
• {{checkuser|Greg Vennet}}
• {{checkuser|PuzzleTime}}
• Nocturnalnow requires special handling. There are matching technical connections between the account and the master. At the same time, some of the technical data is not as conclusive. Also, the behavior is unusual, notably the barrage of edits to Jimbo's Talk page. I have not looked to see if the master and socks have ever edited Jimbo's Talk page; that would be telling if any has. At the same time, the master has shown himself to be diverse in the past, meaning not only editing Canadian political pages, so Nocturnalnow's unusual edits do not necessarily prevent him from being a sock of the master. I'm perfectly fine with blocking Nocturnalnow as a sock, but I'd like more input from others first. As an aside, I don't believe anything Nocturnalnow says on his userpage and Talk page.
• I've blocked the confirmed socks without tags. Regardless of the disposition of Nocturnalnow, Soulspinr is the oldest account, so the case must be moved and previously tagged socks retagged.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:16, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
• {{Done}}. Vanjagenije (talk) 15:02, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
• I have to agree with BalCoder's assessment that there are too many differences between Soulspinr socks and Nocturnalnow. Closing. Sro23 (talk) 23:49, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

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Past sock: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mixed-member_proportional_representation&diff=807514759&oldid=807512121]

Current user: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mixed-member_proportional_representation&diff=prev&oldid=824018214] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mixed-member_proportional_representation&oldid=prev&diff=824020210]

CU request for sleepers EvergreenFir (talk) 21:05, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks {{U|Bbb23}} for pointing out the new location. EvergreenFir (talk) 21:28, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

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{{confirmed}}, {{bnt}}. No other accounts seen. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:40, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

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The edit to Proportional representation by the above IP (Diff/823968976) reverts to a good-faith edit by User:Odysseus1479 (Diff/807897645) that corrected some heading depth errors caused by User:Willowravine with this edit (Diff/807510397). Willowravine was correctly identified as a Soulspinr (or Ontario Teacher) sock on Oct.29 by User:Rhys Goldstein (Diff/807625161). The edit has the effect of re-activating Willowravine's changes, which were reverted by Goldstein (Diff/808205423) shortly before the article was protected for 3 months on Nov.1. Now 24 hours after the protection was removed this edit reverts Goldstein's corrections.

The edit is intended to show that the MMP electoral system is not PR, Ontario Teacher's principle goal during his WP career, a position no other editor has supported. Obviously, this is Ontario/Soulspinr again. BalCoder (talk) 15:40, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

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• The IP made only one edit two days ago, blocking it is unlikely to accomplish anything. Closing without action. Sir Sputnik (talk) 20:17, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

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Created today; edit warring campaign to replace "anti-abortion" with "pro-life", as several past socks have done, and focus on Ontario Conservative politics. Compare:

• HistoryInAction's [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Ontario_leadership_election,_2018&diff=prev&oldid=828473973 3rd edit], with the summary "Actually, the term "abortion rights" is very POV. You are implying that one side is against rights. "Fetal rights" is the POV term on the other side. The article and media use the neutral term pro-life."
• older sock: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Political_positions_of_Donald_Trump&diff=prev&oldid=756400513] "Use terms "pro-life" and "pro-choice" respectively in order to provide balanced language", as well as [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Bishonen&diff=prev&oldid=758657763], all of which eventually led to this user being [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive208#Arbitration_enforcement_action_appeal_by_Ontario_Teacher_BFA_BEd topic banned] from abortion as arbitration enforcement

Request CU for sleepers, per case history. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 20:26, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

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• {{confirmed}} plus:
• {{checkuser|Gremlin75}}
• {{checkuser|Trunkz44}}
• {{checkuser|Love Hope}}
• {{bnt}}. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:54, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

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Compare [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Rae&diff=828528686&oldid=828491080 this] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Rae&diff=823797794&oldid=822178048 this]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AKathleen_Wynne&type=revision&diff=828529519&oldid=828490775 This] refers to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kathleen_Wynne&diff=828135966&oldid=826645387 this edit].

{{u|Bbb23}}'s block on the /64 expired a few days ago. Simplexity22 (talk) 06:47, 3 March 2018 (UTC) Simplexity22 (talk) 06:47, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

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+ 2607:F2C0:9364:5000:5CC0:1B71:F4BE:47D8, continuation of the "anti-abortion" replacement campaign (see last report). Simplexity22 (talk) 22:27, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

• IP /64 range blocked. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 03:49, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

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Compare [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_Ford_Jr.&diff=prev&oldid=829953755 this] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_Ford_Jr.&diff=prev&oldid=823334725 this], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Ontario_leadership_election,_2018&diff=prev&oldid=829857512 this] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Ontario_leadership_election,_2018&diff=prev&oldid=828134335 this]. TekSavvy /64, geolocates to Toronto, consistent with previous IP-socks. Simplexity22 (talk) 21:26, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

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• {{awaitingadmin}} - I am involved here but this is clearly a sock on this IPv6 range. Compare with this range which was blocked two weeks ago, and compare a past CU-confirmed sock's [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_Ford_Jr.&diff=prev&oldid=823334725 edit] with this IP's [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_Ford_Jr.&diff=prev&oldid=823334725 edit]. As their previous range is currently under a one-month block and IPv6 /64 CIDR ranges normally map to one end-user (see m:Help:Range blocks/IPv6) please block this range for two months. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 13:26, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

::Added another IP on the same range that was blocked today by {{ul|Paul Erik}}. What I didn't explain well in my last edit is that IPv6 /64 ranges are usually functionally equivalent to discrete IPv4 addresses, in terms of dynamic addressing. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 22:32, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

• /64 range hardblocked and closing.
   — Berean Hunter (talk) 02:26, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

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Day old account created Draft:Hamish Marshall(Political Strategist) with blatantly promotional content, and after being warned on their talk page, that draft has only been edited by IPs on the sockmaster's small mobile ISP. Besides the draft, the account has only edited articles on Canadian Conservative Party topics, with the same pro-Tory POV. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 17:38, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

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• {{selfendorse}}, and please also check for sleepers. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 17:38, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
• {{confirmed}} + {{checkuser|NotSeenHere}}. {{bnt}}. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:04, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

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Compare [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrew_Scheer&diff=prev&oldid=832713719&diffmode=source this] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrew_Scheer&diff=832709434&oldid=832650940&diffmode=source this] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrew_Scheer&diff=next&oldid=831042558&diffmode=source this] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrew_Scheer&diff=prev&oldid=830989975&diffmode=source this].

• Moved the paragraphs including "Conservative campaign chair" and "Scheer was asked if he had ever acted inappropriately" to and from the same locations.
• Added "On October 16 2017" to the same location (confirmed socks formatted this as "On October 16, 2017").
• Added "and then ended the interview" to a similar location confirmed socks had added "before ending the news conference"/"before ended the news conference". Simplexity22 (talk) 19:28, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

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• +199.7.157.41, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dalton_McGuinty&diff=prev&oldid=833356334&diffmode=source another edit about the "Ornge Air Ambulance scandal"] (for comparison: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dalton_McGuinty&diff=811461727&oldid=811460555&diffmode=source][https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dalton_McGuinty&diff=786693952&oldid=786692786&diffmode=source]), coming from Soulspinr's mobile ISP. Simplexity22 (talk) 02:43, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

IP edits too old. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:28, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

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New account yet one of its first edits is involved at edit warring in Doug Ford Jr. making a comment that one would expect from an established editor.[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_Ford_Jr.&diff=prev&oldid=833636044] and issuing a template warning that again, one would expect from an experienced editor[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Nixon_Now&diff=prev&oldid=833635842]. May be related to User:70.49.231.184. Nixon Now (talk) 01:22, 2 April 2018 (UTC) Nixon Now (talk) 01:22, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

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Please don't file one-user reports. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:22, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

:{{yo|Bbb23}} I'm guessing Nixon Now meant to suggest Katy Park is a sock of Soulspinr, from a note on my talk page and crossover on the Doug Ford article. I looked pretty quickly and I don't think so, and I think we should delete this accusatory report about a probably innocent new user. Is that ok with you?

:On the other hand I'm 100% sure the IP is a returning user, but not this user. I'm just hunting down a particular diff to establish the connection. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 15:06, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

::{{re|Ivanvector}} Good job. However, Miss Katy isn't so innocent. {{confirmed}} to Soulspinr. Blocked and tagged. Dispose of this report as you think best. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:22, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

:::*puts away AGF hat* Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 15:27, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

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See below.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 20:03, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

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Group 1 {{confirmed}} to each other:

• {{checkuser|1=Dalek Monty}}
• {{checkuser|1=Nixon Now}}
• {{checkuser|1=She Who Must Be Obeyed Without Equivocation}}
• {{checkuser|1=Selwyn Floyd}}
• {{checkuser|1=Zoltan Rideout}}
• {{checkuser|1=Danakingwashere}}

Group 2 identified as {{noping|Soulspinr}} are {{confirmed}} to each other:

Using same range but different phone UA as Group 1

• {{checkuser|1=Gremlin75}}
• {{checkuser|1=Trunkz44}}
• {{checkuser|1=HistoryInAction}}
• {{checkuser|1=Love Hope}}
• {{checkuser|1=Katy Park}}

Exact phone UA matches to Group 2 but needing behavior evaluated

• {{checkuser|1=RomeW}}
• {{checkuser|1=Clover Editor}}
• {{checkuser|1=Jaroslav Kostioutchenko}}

Other possibles:

• {{checkuser|1=Fyddlestix}} has an exact phone UA match to Group 1 in a IPv4 /22 range but needing behavior evaluated
• {{checkuser|1=Rupert Rostenkowski}} is using a desktop/laptop UA which matches one being used by Nixon Now while he is editing logged out except a different browser. This account is using the same IPv6 /64 address block which seems to be otherwise exclusively Nixon Now.
• {{checkuser|1=Natural RX}} is {{possible}}.

So are group 1 and group 2 masters the same or are they meatpuppets?
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 20:09, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

:That's a loaded question. I don't think they are either. I believe they are separate masters.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:48, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

::Thanks for running the check, {{ul|Berean Hunter}}, but I think Bbb23 is right. The pairing of what I presume are both users' terrestrial and mobile ISPs would be pretty common among users editing in the same geographical area, based on what I know at least about Soulspinr. If they were on almost any other ISP in that area then they would likely have the same ISP for both mobile and terrestrial, rather than a different provider for each. I was on the same pairing when I lived in the same area. It also wouldn't be unusual for users on those ISPs to share political interests (with myself, again). If you can't say the technical data is a definite match, then I have to say we don't have enough to go on to connect the two. But thanks for taking a look all the same. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 17:00, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

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Clearly not a new user, making [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrea_Horwath&diff=prev&oldid=843373369 contentious] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrea_Horwath&diff=844239976&oldid=844160007 edits] to Ontario political articles in a similar fashion as previous socks. Not wanting to say too much, per BEANS. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 16:46, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

: User:Bbb23 has typically checked these socks in the past. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 16:48, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

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{{confirmed}}, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:34, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

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• {{checkuser|1=Cassidy408}}

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Account created in 2008 (18 days before Soulspinr) did not edit at all until a few days ago. Created a user page, then has been sitting on Toronto mayoral election, 2018 unduly promoting one particularly extremely right-wing candidate. Has been attempting to declassify the candidate's particularly extreme ideology by using vague descriptors like "right-wing", in the same way that past Soulspinr socks have done for other controversial Canadian conservatives with documented views that are more right wing than typical Canadian conservatism. Examples:

• Kevin O'Leary: {{ul|Ontario Teacher BFA BEd}} ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_O%27Leary&diff=prev&oldid=764293692], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=774662648], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_O%27Leary&diff=774653742&oldid=774647100])
• Maxime Bernier: {{ul|Bell1985}} (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maxime_Bernier&type=revision&diff=778252063&oldid=778245659), {{ul|NotSeenHere}} (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maxime_Bernier&diff=811204589&oldid=810965258), {{ul|11pm}} (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maxime_Bernier&diff=780132564&oldid=780131598) - interesting that all of these accounts were edit-warring with each other but all are CU-confirmed
• Doug Ford: {{ul|Katy Park}} (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_Ford&diff=833636044&oldid=833607516), {{ul|AstronautPants}} (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_Ford&diff=823334725&oldid=823327744)
• Stephen Harper: Bell1985 (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stephen_Harper&diff=778883563&oldid=778355126), Ontario Teacher such-and-such (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stephen_Harper&diff=731623559&oldid=731620405)

Another hallmark is the significant overlap with the {{ul|Charles lindberg}} sockfarm, which is active on both Faith Goldy ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=776753483 created the page], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=819588968], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=778435830]) and Toronto mayoral election, 2018 ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=786822653 created the page], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=819592785], [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=838442855]). Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:49, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

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• {{selfendorse}} per my own request. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:49, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
• {{confirmed}}. {{bwt}}. Please don't change the master. Soulspinr and Charles lindbergh are {{unrelated}}.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:59, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

::Closing, it appears everything's been done here that needs to be done. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 17:37, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

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Similar habits as previous socks (not saying too much per BEANS), making politically [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Justin_Trudeau&diff=prev&oldid=828782077 contentious] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Justin_Trudeau&diff=prev&oldid=856550026 edits] again. User:Bbb23 has experience with these. It may be worth a check for sleepers. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 01:35, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

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• {{endorse}} - user made 10 nonsense edits followed by their 11th to a semiprotected page. Obviously somebody's sock. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 01:39, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
• {{confirmed}}. {{bwt}}. No other accounts seen. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:57, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

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• {{checkuser|1=LegLanCorois}}

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Similar edits to right-wing Canadian politics articles, including People's Party of Canada and Supply management (Canada), compared with Special:Contributions/Ottawa11. Bradv 14:51, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

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• {{confirmed}}, {{bnt}}. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 15:20, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

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• {{checkuser|1=Timewindermob}}

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Edits over similar topics to past confirmed socks (current political events in Canada) and also see below. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:08, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

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User:Hiveho is Soulspinr's current sock. Ten Antelopes (talk) 19:39, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

• This account came up in another check and has definitely been editing logged out on multiple ranges known to have been used by Soulspinr socks in the past, but as those accounts are stale, {{behav}}. I have blocked the account for logged out socking, but I would like a second opinion with respect to this SPI. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:08, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
• {{re|Ivanvector}} Although you didn't ask this question, I believe that Timewindermob is {{unrelated}} to Soulspinr. OTOH, the account is {{possilikely}} to {{user2|Nixon Now}}. By contrast, the following accounts are {{confirmed}} to Soulspinr:
• {{checkuser|Hiveho}}
• {{checkuser|65Karlson}}
• {{checkuser|OnlyfromtheSix}}
• {{bwt}}.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:38, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

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• {{checkuser|1=Heinvan5}}
• {{checkuser|1=TitanSymphony}}
• {{checkuser|1=JaventheAlderick}}

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Same editing pattern as Special:Contributions/Hiveho and Special:Contributions/Ottawa11, adding redundant ideologies to Canadian political parties, e.g. [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=People%27s_Party_of_Canada&diff=prev&oldid=902952032&diffmode=source] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=People%27s_Party_of_Canada&diff=prev&oldid=902955451&diffmode=source]. – bradv🍁 17:05, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

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{{possible}}.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:26, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

• {{relisted}} - I have added two more accounts, one of them very new, which have been tag-teaming to restore Heinvan5's edits at People's Party of Canada, one of Soulspinr's favourite targets. One of the accounts is quite old but the other seems to have been created to participate in this edit war, and both appear remarkably similar to each other. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:17, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
• TitanSymphony and JaventheAlderick are {{unrelated}} to each other and to the master.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:58, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

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• {{checkip|1=199.119.233.219}}

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The edits to Proportional Representation look like Soulspinr's Ontario Teacher persona. The same change was made by Ontario Teacher in July 2016 (although the deleted text then was much different) with a similar (wrong) argument: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=729599959&oldid=729599059] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation&diff=730060004&oldid=730017032]. ('Wrong' because the article is about the proportional representation of an electorate in an assembly; how this is achieved - by voting, random selection, or anything else - is not determinative).

I'd just like to know if these PR edits are Ontario Teacher because that would give me the backup to undo them. I don't care about the IP being blocked.

The other edits stretch back to 2014, before Ontario Teacher was created, but nonetheless mostly seem to concern right-wing Canadian politics, Ontario Teacher's hunting ground, plus some vandalism (e.g.Quentin Tarantino) and un-partisan hyper-linking (e.g.Cedric Cox). Mis-leadingly anodyne comments ("Typo") (Corruption in Canada, Ontario electricty policy) are another Ontario Teacher speciality, e.g.this Special:Diff/702727870/702821340 claiming to restore an edit but in fact only restoring part of it - check the 2nd.para.in the identified section 'Link between constituent and representative'. The first edits (Christian Paradis) promise - but, as far as I can tell, do not deliver - an anti-abortion angle: Ontario Teacher received a 1-year abortion topic ban and his very first edit concerned abortion: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Mulcair&diff=prev&oldid=675278488] (not forgetting this anonymous attempt a little earlier: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Mulcair&diff=prev&oldid=675088359]). If these were all Ontario Teacher/Soulspinr edits I would not be at all surprised. BalCoder (talk) 16:00, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

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• These are one edit and one revert to the same edit from nearly two months ago. If you want to undo these edits you should base your rationale on the content of the edit, not who might have been behind the IP at the time. Closed with no action. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:14, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

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