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The two main accounts, similarly named with "Forever", are both from 2012, and show a strong interest in supporting articles articles and mentions of Jonathan Kis-Lev, his artwork and self-published books:
 * Jonathan Kis-Lev
 * The Peace Kids (mural)
 * 27 Club

Psychology Forever
 * Psychology Forever adds the references to Kis-Lev’s books to various articles without being noticed. Examples:Bibliography of the Arab–Israeli conflict, The Parents Circle-Families Forum, Falafel, Seeds of Peace, Haifa, IPCRI – Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, Peace Now, 27 Club, List of peace activists, Had Vashem, Peres Centre for Peace. Googling any of the books above also will show that publisher of the books is actually "CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform” (example) and not “Goldsmith Press” as given in the source (example).
 * Psychology Forever is also responsible for uploading about 50 images of Kis-Lev’s work to Commons. The Kis-Lev image with an OTRS ticket uploaded by Forever Art might be helpful there.
 * Psychology Forever also created a new user space article on Kis-Lev’s Unidance company. This article included the entire text of a version of an earlier version of the main Jonathan Kis-Lev article. Psychology forever did manage to get Unidance into article space at one point, but it was AfD’d and then speedied when it was recreated.
 * In this edit, PT adds a huge section on Unidance to the Jonathan Kis-Lev article.
 * Psychology Today may also be a meatpuppet of Forever Art, as Psychology Forever has other editing interests that include self-publishing and the Oprah Winfrey Show. However the main work seems to be centred around Kis-Lev.

Forever Art
 * User Forever Art works on the article creation side, having created Jonathan Kis-Lev, The Peace Kids (mural) and 27 Club (page creations).
 * They are very good at inserting images of Kis-Lev’s work (uploaded to Commons by Psychology Forever) into various articles. For example: Politics of Israel, Peacekeeping, gentrification, bohemianism, stencil graffiti, Jim Morrison, Meretz, Counterculture, Middle East economic integration, Refusal to serve in the IDF, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Amy Winehouse, Florentin, Tel Aviv, Ecumenism and so on.

Artismylife2020

This third account has only made three edits but seems related. In this edit, it pasted the entire Jonathan Kis-Lev article into a draft on another subject being written by Psychology Forever.

The seems WP:DUCK to me. I guess I could dig up more on these users and their common interests. Let me know if that is necessary. Both accounts have logged in in the past 60 days, so I am also requesting CU. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 15:28, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * They're all ❌. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:40, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

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At the Jonathan Kis-Lev Afd a number of suspicious keep !voting accounts have suddenly appeared. All of these accounts are from 2012. All had a hand in the creation of the Kis-Lev article. All are now !voting keep at the AfD. So these seem clearly related. If they were not socking in the creation of the article, which seems to be the likely explanation, they are socking now at the AfD. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 05:06, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Art Lover originally created the Kis-lev page in their user space back in 2012.
 * Art Lover then blanked the page and 6 minutes later Forever Art published it. An off-site web page comparison tools shows them to be 99&% identical.
 * Art Lover also has a second draft of the Kis-Lev article, this time from 2014, in their user space.
 * user אמנות או נמות, also edited Art Lover's Kis-Lev sandbox back in 2012.
 * thanks Kevin for the CU. I wasn't sure how to file this, but I think Art Forever is now the master as it is the oldest.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 17:32, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Funny followup: I noticed that Art Lover started out with the username "Jonathan Kis-Lev". So this was clearly long-term self-promotion. Thanks for the CU and blocks.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 14:58, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * I haven't run an extensive check but at minimum Art Lover and Forever Art are ✅ to each other. I wasn't able to finish this check because I was interrupted by another thing so leaving open. Kevin ( aka L235 · t · c) 17:17, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I've done more of a check and haven't found much. Forever Art and Art Lover . Please move and tag this case as appropriate. Best, Kevin ( aka L235 · t · c) 22:55, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Case moved from Sockpuppet investigations/Forever Art Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 11:07, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Blocked sock and master tagged. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 11:11, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * No mention in the CU report of, but I'm not seeing any behavioral evidence to support their being a sock, so closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:10, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

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This is WP:DUCK. All of the accounts in this SPI group were concerned with promoting JOnathan Kis-Lev. Psychology Forever was CU'd during the first SPI, but was not connected by CU info. Today they recreated a draft for recently deleted article on Jonathan Kis-Lev.

See the first SPI for their:
 * persistent addition of bogus references for Kis-Lev's self-published books (they changed all the sources to read "Goldsmith Press" rather than the actual self-pub press),
 * their Kis-Lev uploads to Commons, and
 * their promotion of Kis-Lev in article space,
 * their two drafts for Kis-Lev's Unidance company in their user space. The accounts associated with this SPI have been using Wikipedia to promote Kis-Lev for 8 years.

I posted inquiries on their talk page about the bogus references and COI 18 days ago, but no response. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 18:49, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * ✅, --  Amanda  (aka DQ) 07:06, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Found significant behavioral evidence suggesting that this account is a sock of User:Art Lover. User created Draft:John Kiss old version after Jonathan Kis-Lev was deleted via Articles for deletion/Jonathan Kis-Lev. This (non-notable) person has a history of using Wikipedia for self-promotion. This account was also used to create drafts about their own art: Draft:Spray Me, Draft:The Spray Witch. Requesting check for sleepers. F ASTILY  04:32, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * The behavioral pattern is very conclusive, he continue to edit the entries he wrote before under his previous names, and even participated in the delete discussion. You can also compare his names and behaviour in the Hebrew wikipedia. 2A02:14F:1FD:8A19:0:0:F08:6BA1 (talk) 15:47, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * due to extensive proxy use.  -- RoySmith (talk) 23:58, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Noting was renamed to   and they were listed in the 08 June 2020 report, though no action was taken at that time as there was very limited behavioural evidence. However, since 3 June 2021, this user has been highly focused on the works and biography of John Kiss / Jonathan Kis-Lev and in promoting this artist like no other user. This is clear enough that on behaviour and shared interest I am comfortable to call them connected.  - Please block  indefinitely as a suspected sockpuppet. I can do the G5 cleanup. --Jack Frost (talk) 23:45, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Shared interest in the same non-notable individual is obviously a huge red flag, but I'm not seeing much more evidence than that, and I don't think it on its own is enough for a block. Could you elaborate on your analysis here? By IRC is fine if it's tell-sensitive. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 14:28, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Have chatted with Jack on IRC. I think at this point I'd like to hear from Everybuckwheat. No edits in a month but worth a shot. @Everybuckwheat: Do you have any connection to Art Lover, a/k/a Forever Art, a/k/a Psychology Forever? --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 21:25, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Resolved below. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 21:08, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

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Everybuckwheat is currently under suspicion at Sockpuppet investigations/Art Lover. A new wrinkle has emerged with Polyglot Lady, though; I see grounds for a check as explained at Special:Diff/1102575463. -- Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 19:38, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

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 * -- Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 19:38, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Technically speaking, although the evidence is somewhat limited, I'd say . I'll also throw in for free.  Salvio 20:30, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Salvio. Moving to Art Lover for resolution. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 21:01, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Going to resolve both sections here. So, I don't think that Everybuckwheat is the exact same person as Art Lover. I wouldn't be shocked if they were, but more likely I think these are two people with overlapping COIs. But I've moved this back under Art Lover because I think that whether this is one person or two or four, all of these accounts are working together, and they're working together to create moderately promotional drafts for non-notable or probably-non-notable subjects, which they leave in draftspace indefinitely while never letting them go stale for G13, essentially using Wikipedia as a webhost. I'm blocking all three as suspected. If anyone has a compelling unblock request, I'll be open to it. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 21:07, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

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AllThisPaperwork was blocked as a possible sockpuppet. They wrote on their user talk page that the first article that they created was Shira Kuperman-Segal (1 Dec 2022). The same article was created by User:Everybuckwheat on he-wiki (24 March 2023). Everybuckwheat was blocked on English Wikipedia already on August 2022 as a sockpuppet of User:Art Lover. So it's possible these all accounts actually belongs to the same user. I found another connection; he:משתמש:Everybuckwheat/Everybuckwheat/Building Your Field of Dreams 2 was created on June 2022, and Draft:Mary Morrissey (author) (created by AllThisPaperwork, edited also by Averagestu29) has a link to Building Your Field of Dreams.

AllThisPaperwork says that those 3 first accounts that I included in this investigation belongs to their student(s) (diff). It's clear that those accounts have connection; see draft history 1, draft history 2, history 3. They have similarities in edit summaries.

I also added User:Fruitcomplain, their user page reminds me of User:Keeran01's user page + they have translated sr:Patty Aubery from simple:Patty Aubery by User:AllThisPaperwork. Also User:Averagestu29 has translated hy:Փեթի Օբերի from simple:Patty Aubery + edited Draft:Mary Morrissey (author). Stryn (talk) 16:32, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

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 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 17:40, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
 * These three are ✅ to each other:  The others all somewhere between  and .  All of these accounts exhibit extensive proxy use. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:02, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm blocking/reblocking the accounts I've identified as cu blocks. Everybuckwheat is currently listed under Sockpuppet investigations/Art Lover, but I see a note from  saying they suspect that's incorrect.  I'll leave the tagging and figuring out if there should be a case merge or not to a clerk. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:11, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 18:17, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I was planning on filing this report, but I was going to file it under the existing case, and FWIW, I think it should be merged into that case. This is a combination of clear socking, mixed in with a probable coordinated UPE ring, and I think it should all be in one spot based on behavior. The heavy proxy use is not surprising in cases like this. A Finnish admin,, has filed a request at Meta for global locks: see here. The details are quite extensive, and some of the suspected socks listed above that are not confirmed are listed. Many of the accounts have registered on en.wiki but never edited, although they are not stale. The request is pending.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:41, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I've added Merlene02 to the list. That account is listed by ATP on their list of "students" along with the others. I blocked Merlene02 as a sock a while ago., you might wish to run a check on that account.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:00, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Merlene02 falls into the same /  bin as the others. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:11, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Actually, I dug a bit deeper.  Merlene02 is ✅ to NGOYA01. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:47, 6 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Of the unblocked accounts on the list, I've blocked and tagged everyone except Fruitcomplain based on behavior. Bbb23 (talk) 19:04, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Tagged accounts. I've blocked Fruitcomplain - they have not done much on enwiki but their crosswiki editing has all the hallmarks of this sockfarm, and they translated another article by AllThisPaperwork, simple:Mary Morrissey, onto srwiki . I'll comment on the global lock request linked above; I also believe these should be locked. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 14:32, 9 April 2023 (UTC)