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First, let me start off by saying that this is a violation of WP:SOCK as it is avoiding scruiteny, as well as 'vote stacking', in the sense that the user is pretending to be two different people. However, it becomes obvious that they are not when they use the same language in edit summaries, as evidenced below:

• Marlin: Undid revision 328840145 by Morphh (talk) This is not your site and your POV is not the main concern for your hero. 3RR ? Take to TALK
• 169: Undid revision 388794546 by Daedalus969 (talk) Is in TALK page. Report yourself as VANDAL

Those are just two of many; just a quick review of 169's recent contribs and Marlin's contribs shows a similar editing style between the sock and the master. Such as the above, shown where they all-cap specific words.

The pattern is pretty recognizable; the words that they all-cap have been shown to be 'talk': [1]/ [2], 'ref': [3], [4], [5]/ [6], [7], [8], and, '3rr': [9], [10], [11]/ [12].

On top of all-cap'ing certain words, they both share similar traits in regards to behavior. As shown in the diffs above, they commonly edit war and note 3rr in their edit summaries, but there is more than just that; they also call users vandals that they are in conflict with.

Given this obvious socking, I request that blocks be issued on both accounts. Both accounts has cross-over in edits, as evidenced by the user compare report below, and as evidenced in the first linked diff, they are pretending to be two different people to win content disputes.

Please tag and bag per WP:DUCK.

User compare report

http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/UserCompare/Marlin1975.html — Dædαlus ^Contribs 03:17, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See Defending yourself against claims.

 Administrator note Agreed with the report. Blocking IP. Still thinking about the rest. --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 04:27, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

 Administrator note Marlin1975 blocked 1 week. Normally would go with a warning on the first offense, but his account and the IP each have a block history. Will leave a note about what's going on. --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 04:32, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]