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27century is a declared paid editor who has nonetheless been warned for edits that are too promotional. Up to yesterday, this editor was working on a promotional draft of businessman and telecommunications scientist Mischa Dohler. Yesterday, 27century blanked their sandbox, and another account, FredericDe, posted the text. FredericDe, not a declared paid editor, has a user page claiming to have joined Wikipedia on the 11th of this month, which is true for this account. I guess this account could be OK under WP:FRESHSTART, but the misleading counter and promotional article make me think this is a sock for carrying on same behaviour with less scrutiny. When I spotted this I wrote on his talk page with an informal message asking if he needed to declare a COI and gave him a day to do something, but I've had no response. Blythwood (talk) 20:23, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

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this does not appear to be the first instance of 27century drafting an article (or edits to an existing article) in their sandbox prior to posting to mainspace. It's fine to do that yourself, but if you're handing off your text to another editor to post into mainspace as themselves, that's a copyright violation. 27century has been doing this as themselves for some time, but only after being warned did this become drafting an article and having another editor post it. It's my opinion that this is deliberate sockpuppetry to evade COI and skirt the request to use WP:AFC to post articles by masquerading as a new user. If is in fact a separate user, then this is egregious meatpuppetry.

another blocked account linked to this master via COIN, for the record. Case still closed. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 00:30, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * please block indefinitely, and block  for one week for sockpuppetry to evade COI and copyright violation. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 00:20, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  17:52, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, can you link to this discussion? I can't find mention of "Pablo Linz" anywhere in the COIN archives, and he is saying that he doesn't understand why he's been blocked. Blythwood (talk) 19:53, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * oh dear, I seem to be mistaken about this being a COIN thing. See the discussion #27century on my talk page. User blocked Pablo Linz as a duck of 27century, I wasn't involved in that determination. I understand 27century has been under investigation at COIN and I seem to have assumed that that was how Bilby came to their conclusion. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 22:38, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * To clarify, I've known that 27century has been engaged in paid editing for some time, and kept an eye on their edits but, as long as they seemed willing to disclose, didn't see any major issues. However, I came across Pablo Linz independently due to some paid editing they were engaged in, and made the connection to 27century. I am very certain of that connection. That led to looking back over 27century's edits, which is where the connection to FredericDe appeared. I checked for blocks and messages, but didn't think to check for an open SPI - it seems we found FredericDe at the same time. - Bilby (talk) 17:35, 23 September 2016 (UTC)