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** Do they have a mix of article and talkpage edits, or do they lean towards one over the other?
:: A contrib list with nothing but talkpage edits, and no article edits, ''may'' be an indication of an editor who spends all their time doing nothing but jumping from dispute to dispute
:: A talk page with ''no'' contributions (eg: replies) from the user, but lots of canned messages from bots (such as [[User:DPL bot]]) and occasional messages from other people may indicate that a user does know about Wikipedia communication methods. Be ''very'' careful to assume good faith; even if the user has received multiple warnings for edit-warring or BLP violations
* Look at their userpage, scan through it to get a sense of their personality
** An empty or "boilerplate" userpage is sometimes an indicator of a sockpuppet or meatpuppet account, though many new and some established good-faith editors have empty userpages.
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