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NewsAndEventsGuy

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Please note that a case was originally opened under Ethiopique (talk · contribs) but has been moved to Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/NewsAndEventsGuy. Future cases should be placed under Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/NewsAndEventsGuy.

16 November 2022

– This SPI case is open.

Suspected sockpuppets

• 75.166.143.100 (talk · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
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This sockpuppetry first began in August at my user talk page, and then started up again in November at WP:BLPN. Here's the link from August, and here's the link from November. As you can see from the August link, he explicitly acknowledged being logged out ("I’m away from my computer until tomorrow and don’t have my password and login information readily available"), but refused to give his username when specifically asked by me ("If you disclose your username, maybe I’ll read what you have to say....You don’t need to log in to disclose your username"), almost certainly because I had reminded him only a week earlier that he was banned from my user talk page (see details on the ban from my user talk page here at the talk page of User:Drmies). That briefly summarizes the sockpuppetry in August that I linked at the outset. I also linked November sockpuppetry above, and that involved lots of disparaging remarks at BLPN (the wrong place for it), including that I had been released from a TBAN by "begging", et cetera. That stuff at BLPN mentions "the 2020 Trump coup-attempt by inserting pov-pushing OR Jan 6th denialism" which is a dead giveaway because I had disagreements with NewsAndEventsGuy at those two topic areas; for example, see this complaint I filed about him at ANI (one week before the August sockpuppetry), this discussion between him and me about coups, etc, etc. Notice that 6 days after the August sockpuppetry on my user talk, he was using the same IP address to edit about coups, which again confirms this was all the same person. Anythingyouwant (talk) 05:21, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

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Sidenote: If ‘anything’ qualifies for a BOOMERRANG to an ANI to reinstate user “anythingyouwant’s” original TBAN it is this textbook example of WP:GAMING,pot-kettle abuse by him.

LONG-VERSION(skip to TL;DR version below if you must): AYM clearly promised to be on his best behavior AFTER his last TBAN and his knee-jerk attack against this other editor smacks of bad faith. This frivolous vindictive SPI is yet another example of him failing to keep his promise to keep drama to a minimum. “Anythingyouwant” promised in his desperate TBAN appeal to (quote him)

“However, in the future, if I encounter substantial resistance to enforcing BLP, then I promise to take the matter to BLPN and editors there can make an exception to BLP if they wish to treat a particular living person differently from all the other living people. I won’t edit-war about it, even if I profoundly disagree.” And “ I promise never again to criticize another editor on my own talk page.”(a quick superficial glance at his talk history in recent weeks alone and months shows he broke this promise repeatedly)

I include all this because when a troublesome veteran editor who knows better has just been allowed to return from a TBAN for previous editwarring and gaming behaviors and decides to start gaming SPIs rather than just chill out as he’s been warned again AND AGAIN in recent weeks, then this SPI can not be taken seriously as anything more than ongoing proof that his TBAN exists for a reason.

TL;DR version: this ongoing drama by this previously banned member “Anythingyouwants” belongs in an ANI, not here—- especially when it’s clear to any veteran editor that user “newsandeventsguy” is NOT socking but being scapegoated for everything AYW passive-aggressively hates about Misplaced Pages, his broken promises not to attack editors on his talk page not withstanding (e.g. recent example).lol 174.215.18.76 (talk) 16:46, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

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