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Becausewhynothuh?

Becausewhynothuh? (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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18 March 2024

– A checkuser has completed a check on relevant users in this case, and it is now awaiting administration and close.

Suspected sockpuppets

• GymratW (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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Editing pattern is pretty much what BWNH does with city articles, such as Houston, Miami, and San Diego. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 13:16, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Per my talk page, here are some comparisons between this user and BWNH:

1. In the Miami page, this edit from Gymrat is roughly the same as the edit here from BWNH earlier in 2023. The only difference between these two edits is that the one from BWNH has a pink skyline as the hover preview image in the infobox, as well as slightly less images.

2. On Houston, Gymrat's edit is essentially the same as BWNH's edit in August of 2023.

3. San Diego was especially where everything went crazy, with this compared to this edit by AbiquiúBoy, a sockpuppet of BWNH. While these two comparisons may not seem like such a big deal due to the images being different in both of them, it does go to show that Gymrat, the sock of BWNH, has this type of obsession with messing up the infobox.

4. Finally, for Newark, New Jersey, Gymrat's edit involved repeatedly changing the skyline, and I knew that this was easily a sock, considering that BWNH's edit also changed the lead skyline. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 22:20, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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I agree this is an obvious duck: compare Gymrat with Bwnh?, for example. --JBL (talk) 00:31, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Same old behavior as all I know. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 09:14, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 Confirmed:

• GymratW (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) to
• Becausewhynothuh? (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) based on usage of a familiar IP range and some information from the CU wiki. EdJohnston (talk) 01:24, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

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