wikiquette you need to check both of the ip's talk pages and their edit history then you will see why i am concerned in parallel with this we have what looks like another sock attack on the uk page someone else is looking at that the raising suspicion stage the ip edits here are very similar to previous sock puppet attacks hence my asking the question if you check back on this history i have done my best to avoid sock puppets trying to get ips to admit up front if they have edited even trying to get one long term sock puppet rehabilitated i understand your reaction and your wish to establish your self as a mediator i do a lot of that at government level myself including canadian provinces but we are dealing with a complex set of pages here which are permanently subject to attack by ips edit warring sock puppetry etc etc you would probably need to have the scars of an active and concerned editor on these pages to understand just why most of us will check as i did the minute a new editor emerges when they use different ip addresses within a day of each other refuse to ask questions and use features of wikipedia it took me a year to discover then a degree of suspicion is reasonable talk