Based on reports in the media this week, and from comments made by others who have experienced what I went through, it's apparently not uncommon in Wikipedia for a single person to create several different personalities, or ID's, and to then use them themselves, or in concert with others, to create the appearance of unrelated people making edits, challenging posters, harrassing and threatening others, and worse. So, your statment that "..hmm, no, it was three people.", rings hollow with some of us.