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title: "No Wikipedia Straw Accounts for Top 100 Editors"
description: "We used several text and activity metrics to identify the most similar editor accounts for each of the top 100 editors on wikipedia. We found no evidence of duplicate accounts."
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published_at: "2026-07-07T00:00:00.000Z"
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# No Wikipedia Straw Accounts for Top 100 Editors

> We used several text and activity metrics to identify the most similar editor accounts for each of the top 100 editors on wikipedia. We found no evidence of duplicate accounts.

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## Claim — We used several text and activity metrics to identify the most similar editor accounts for each of the top 100 editors on wikipedia. We found no evidence of duplicate accounts.

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> We used several text and activity metrics to identify the most similar editor accounts for each of the top 100 editors on wikipedia. We found no evidence of duplicate accounts.

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## Context, methodology, and limitations

We used several text and activity metrics to identify the most similar editor accounts for each of the top 100 editors on wikipedia. We found no evidence of duplicate accounts.

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