User:Biosketch/Unomi SPI draft

{subst:SPI report |checkuser=no |sock1=BothHandsBlack |evidence=The evidence below will endeavor to establish that BothHandsBlack (talk · contribs) is an undeclared successor account of Unomi (talk · contribs).

Background

1. User:Unomi last contributed to Wikipedia on 26 December 2011. User:BothHandsBlack made his first contribution about two days later on 28 December 2011. User:Unomi has made no indication that he's retired his account, despite the counsel offered at WP:CLEANSTART. Meanwhile, User:BothHandsBlack is refusing to acknowledge that he's an alternate account of User:Unomi.
2. Prior to abruptly discontinuing the use of his account, User:Unomi was extensively and passionately invested (e.g. here, here, here, here, and here) in the defense of User:YehudaTelAviv64's right to edit from an undeclared alternate account. User:YehudaTelAviv64 is a blocked sockpuppet of Dimension31 (talk · contribs).

Behavioral evidence linking BHB to Unomi

1. Single quotation marks. Unomi: e.g. [1], [2]; BHB: [3], [4].
2. Smileys. Unomi: e.g. [5], [6], [7]; BHB: [8], [9].
3. Frequent use of parentheses. Unomi: e.g. [ ; BHB: [10], [11].
4. Penchant for DR. Will elaborate in a separate comment.
5. Exclamation marks. Unomi: e.g. [12], [13]; BHB: [14], [15].

Further cause for suspicion

1. User:BothHandsBlack's second edit (31 December) was at the article USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10), in a lead paragraph with WP:Markup#Text_formatting that included bold text. His second edit (same day) was at Solar maximum, also to a lead paragraph with bold text. Dozens of edits later, as late as 14 January, User:BothHandsBlack was claiming he didn't know how to make text bold. BHB has described himself as "a research academic working in an area that requires precise research and referencing." It's inconceivable that these two narratives could be consistent and is further evidence that BHB is engaging in deceit.
2. BHB's second and third edits were to articles relating to astronomy. Since then, he's been making dozens of edits per day in the I/P topic area with apparently no interest in any other areas of the project. This, together with his curious introductory comment, also suggests an attempt to deceive onlookers into believing BHB's sudden preoccupation with the I/P topic area so soon after the creation of his account is merely arbitrary.
3. The peculiar patterns of BHB's editing behavior leave little room for doubt that he's a reincarnation of someone who's edited extensively in the Israel-Palestine topic area before. The question is therefore not so much one of if as of who: of all the familiar editors in the I/P topic area, who does BHB's behavior resemble the most? The answer is no one, except Unomi. There's no one else that edits I/P whose behavior overlaps BHB's as much as Unomi. I'm not requesting a checkuser be performed in this case. It's too fallible a method, and BHB has established off-wiki that he's a frequent flyer. Rather, given the nature of BHB's edits, the evidence should be solid enough for invoking WP:DUCK.—Biosketch (talk) 12:14, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

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