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Blablubbs: I think you are exactly right. I recall now that Mynameispartioshmandal said something like "the editors who did the first drafts were not very good"! Makes sense. Thanks all around.
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talk)
00:47, 27 May 2021 (UTC)reply
On a sidenote, @
Run n Fly: It's usually not necessary to ping me to SPI cases unless it's urgent and you need me specifically (e.g. because you want me to run a proxy check or I'm exceptionally familiar with the master) – I usually read everything that's filed here within 24h at most. --
Blablubbs|
talk09:01, 26 May 2021 (UTC)reply
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Possibly: My best guess is that these are warring UPE factions – they also tried to get rid of each others' pages (
[1][2]); some spamsocks get pretty mad when someone else gets the Upwork job they wanted. Another option I considered was that they are trying to present their own articles as "under threat" to get more money from their clients. Looking again in more depth and with the CU result, I'm pretty sure this is a freelancer turf war though. In any case, this might be worth a separate COIN post – the
DasSoumik group wrote quite a few articles. --
Blablubbs|
talk00:44, 27 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Oh, looks like Kevin got to Alokechatterjee3 despite not being confirmed – not sure why I didn't catch that at the time, though the mild sleep deprivation might have something to do with it. Self-trout and Tagged that one too. @
Possibly: I'm afraid I can't do much about the IP at this time. They've already been on one or two different /64s after the edits on the listed IPs – we could theoretically whack 2409:4060:2000::/36 (
talk+·tag·contribs·filter log·WHOIS·RBLs·proxy check·block user·spi block·block log·cross-wiki contribs·CheckUser (
log)), but I'm guessing that even that wouldn't hold for very long, and we'd be creating a good amount of collateral. The fact that there is logged-out editing is definitely worth noting for the future, though. Closing. --
Blablubbs|
talk09:52, 27 May 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Blablubbs: I think you are exactly right. I recall now that Mynameispartioshmandal said something like "the editors who did the first drafts were not very good"! Makes sense. Thanks all around.
--- Possibly (
talk)
00:47, 27 May 2021 (UTC)reply
On a sidenote, @
Run n Fly: It's usually not necessary to ping me to SPI cases unless it's urgent and you need me specifically (e.g. because you want me to run a proxy check or I'm exceptionally familiar with the master) – I usually read everything that's filed here within 24h at most. --
Blablubbs|
talk09:01, 26 May 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Possibly: My best guess is that these are warring UPE factions – they also tried to get rid of each others' pages (
[1][2]); some spamsocks get pretty mad when someone else gets the Upwork job they wanted. Another option I considered was that they are trying to present their own articles as "under threat" to get more money from their clients. Looking again in more depth and with the CU result, I'm pretty sure this is a freelancer turf war though. In any case, this might be worth a separate COIN post – the
DasSoumik group wrote quite a few articles. --
Blablubbs|
talk00:44, 27 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Oh, looks like Kevin got to Alokechatterjee3 despite not being confirmed – not sure why I didn't catch that at the time, though the mild sleep deprivation might have something to do with it. Self-trout and Tagged that one too. @
Possibly: I'm afraid I can't do much about the IP at this time. They've already been on one or two different /64s after the edits on the listed IPs – we could theoretically whack 2409:4060:2000::/36 (
talk+·tag·contribs·filter log·WHOIS·RBLs·proxy check·block user·spi block·block log·cross-wiki contribs·CheckUser (
log)), but I'm guessing that even that wouldn't hold for very long, and we'd be creating a good amount of collateral. The fact that there is logged-out editing is definitely worth noting for the future, though. Closing. --
Blablubbs|
talk09:52, 27 May 2021 (UTC)reply