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A series of SPA socks have been adding promotional content to Stephen Powers (artist) since 2009. One edit summary says, "I worked with espo for over ten years on the writing of my book, graffiti lives, and i made a few corrections" (ESPO is another name for article subject Stephen Powers), Past accounts are inactive, except for current one User:Mowwra. Beginning SPI to track.

If you only care about the active sock, scroll past the inactive SPAs that follow and see Mowwra entry at the bottom. Dennis Bratland (talk) 17:58, 27 June 2016 (UTC) Same ongoing promotional tone and sources, same subject. Inactive SPA. Editing overlaps with articles on other artists in same region as Stepehn Powers Dennis Bratland (talk) 18:06, 27 June 2016 (UTC) This is the currently active SPA sock, adding same promotional material to Stephen Powers (artist).

Side note: Edit summary on talk page said "Not Copyrighted work . I work for the artist" in reference to copy-paste of press release into article. If true, this person probably originally wrote the press release, and published it with the expectation that media would copy it under Fair Use. Often PR writers don't understand that their press releases are still under copyright, and that Wikipedia does not take such content under Fair Use in this way.

Since this person has been busy on Wikipedia since 2008 and is clearly adept at editing, it's unlikely they fail to understand the rules. Hence the need for so many socks. Dennis Bratland (talk) 18:16, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

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 * - PLease, compare Mowwra to FSThompson. All others are .  Vanjagenije  (talk)  21:07, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * The two accounts are .--Bbb23 (talk) 00:05, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I blocked two most recent accounts. I also indefinitely semi-protected the article. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:27, 28 June 2016 (UTC)