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For archived investigations, see Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Cirt/Archive.

01 October 2018

– A checkuser has placed this case on hold pending further information or developments.

Suspected sockpuppets

• Sagecandor (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• 69.50.70.9 (talk · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))

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Cirt has been topic-banned from political biographies since 2011. He stopped editing Misplaced Pages on April 24, 2016 and requested the removal of his admin privileges from all Wikimedia sites on May 4. Both dates were imminent to decisive events in the 2016 Republican primaries, which is relevant for the editing area of this editor and could have made him have an urge for violating his topic ban.

In October 2016, during the actual presidential campaigns, an IP that is likely a proxy based in Antigua (69.50.70.9) started editing election-related articles. The IP address is familiar with Misplaced Pages formatting. Besides politics, the IP edited Class (2016 TV series) which is a spin-off of the Doctor Who series which Cirt edited. Here is a reception section made by Cirt in a Dr. Who article  ; and here is a similar reception section inserted by the IP in another Dr. Who article.

The IP made 44 edits to fake news website in mid-November. The IP made its last edit on 17:08, 17 November 2016 and a new account called Sagecandor (talk · contribs) made his first Misplaced Pages edit 9 hours later in the same article. The IP never edited the article again, and only resumed editing in March 2017 (presumably by another proxy user), whereas Sagecandor ended up with 904 edits in the article. They had similar edit summaries: either "add info" or "add information" and the source wikilinked: & .

Cirt had an interest in books especially related to politics or society. He lists 48 book articles he helped to promote to GA status and four to FA status. For instance, he requested an exemption to his topic ban to edit the bibliography of Dan Savage who was responsible for the sexual neologism "santorum" as a response to Senator Rick Santorum's views. Similarly, most articles created by Sagecandor are political books. Of these, Trump Tower is heavily focused on sexuality, and Sagecandor also has 404 edits in Elijah Daniel who has written an erotic novel about Trump. More recently, he has created articles for three books authored by Mark Judge, related to the sexual assault allegations against the SCOTUS nominee.

Further behavioral evidence:

• Sagecandor and Cirt both use the phrase "respectfully defer to" The phrase gets just around 3,000 Google hits in the whole Internet. Similarly "acknowledgement of my" is used by both.
• Both use a space before an exclamation mark after thanking someone, like this: "Thank you !" Sagecandor: & Cirt:
• Both use the edit summaries of "commented" and "minor copy edit" frequently. See the edit summary search tool:
• Both use a Meta userpage with _NOEDITSECTION_ code
• Both create welcome messages for new users en masse with Twinkle:
• Both have a habit of stating a number followed by a parenthetical with the digit, such as "zero (0)" or "two (2)": &
• Both say "at DIFF" with the word in full caps: &
• Both create new talk page sections with the first line being just a short sentence or a wikilink, or each paragraph is just one sentence. The IP also did this:

I'm not sure about the conclusiveness of a CU because a proxy has already been involved and some time has passed, but it could be done if needed. Pudeo (talk) 11:47, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Comments by other users

Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

@Bbb23:Responded to you privately by email. Sagecandor (talk) 14:11, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

@Sagecandor: Do you have anything to say?--Bbb23 (talk) 13:52, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

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