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I think he's more of a bot programmer who created a bot with sysop privileges. Here's some testing he did last year.
Yeah, I'm not so sure that those IPs are Curps', but he does fit the profile to a certain extent.
It could be freakofnurture too, he sort of fits the profile as well. I'm just curious because someone "high up" (or a wannabe) is clearly editing under their IP but still wants to stay very much anonymous.
The IP editor edits railway related articles, sci-fi real-time strategy video games, and profiles/biographies of NBA basketball players, political/historical military people, and of notable Chinese people (and 69.117.7.126 has even done some Chinese-language
editing on the Chinese Wikipedia on a StarCraft (video game) character's article, and 69.117.6.210
added a disputed tag regarding the birthdate of Chinese actor Gu Yue.)
Edits like these are quite rare though, most of the time this user is fervently correcting spelling and grammar in ArbCom rulings and articles, making knowledgeable comments here or there with respect to administration and ArbCom, and tracking down banned users so he/she can put the "this user has been banned" notice on them (a lot of Curps' impersonators even.)
The editing profile is
Very similar to Curps', (if you don't look at his history--one big list of reverts--and use Interiot's contribution tree thingie. Curps has more than 30000 edits!) Curps is also constantly dealing with blocked/banned users on his talk page, like it is his speciality. When it comes to the Chinese oriented stuff,
Curps is also a user on Chinese Wikipedia (34 edits), and his user page there redirects to English Wikipedia. So Curps also speaks and reads at least some Chinese. I am definitely not positive that it's Curps, and probably can't be unless Curps comes right out and says it's him (I don't know why the IP editor seems to be hiding his true user identity--I did read a post where he admitted to having one somewhere in my search).
I also get a kick out of doing "investigative" kind of stuff like this. Curps, if it is Curps, isn't doing anything wrong at all that I can see, but it is interesting the way whoever it is uses their IP addresses as sockpuppets. Maybe it's a sort "AGF" protest, since his anon edits are sometimes met with "you're just an anon, sign up and learn some things." The editor is really into commenting in ArbCom anonymously too. Curious, is all, if a little disconcerting to me, since I wonder why edit this way at all, is the editor hiding something? Also, the editor's comments, when he/she makes them, are usually pretty abrasive and have a sort of "in-your-face" authority.