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Overlapping activity on several completely unrelated articles. Strange addition of promotional content, copyright violations, and unreliable sources. Might be SEO activity or similar, or might be something else, but one account was already temporarily blocked for adding unsourced content.

All three accounts have tag-teamed to restore flimsy promotional content to List of toothpaste brands, starting with this edit, and continuing for a dozen more in the article's recent history. This overlaps with Elham377mm's edits to Leontopodium nivale linking to the same brand of toothpaste.

The Mo accounts have both edited International English Language Testing System. Mo.reminiscer's edits were conversational WP:OR, while Mohsen.shariatisarabi's edits were WP:COPYVIOs which have been revdeled. Elham377mm similarly added promotional copy/paste to Ebi.

Two accounts have also edited Mashhad to promote a book festival and Qamar al-Din to add similar, poorly sourced information.

The Mo accounts were created within minutes of each other, one day after Elham377. This indicates intention and planning, so I am requesting a checkuser to make sure there aren't any others. Grayfell (talk) 07:57, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

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Hi, these accounts and several other accounts use the shared network, and are new to wiki, and had some mistakes, but we edited those. but I don't Know why my only line in list of toothpaste brands was revert again and again, but the other lines that have ads still remains. Elham377mm (talk) 06:04, 20 December 2020 (UTC)elham377mmElham377mm (talk) 06:04, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
 * At least two of these accounts were created within minutes of each other, and all three have been aggressively edit warring at that article. You have also been adding spam links to other articles, and multiple editors have asked you to stop. Please respond here, or at User talk:Elham377mm, explaining that you understand that paid editing is prohibited in most cases. Thank you. Grayfell (talk) 08:00, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi Grayfell Dear Sir, why so much suspicion?! All my colleagues and I intended to do was to be in WIKI. We did not have a lot of experience I have to say. I appreciate it if you help us out here and facilitate the process of what we want to do out of good will. I would also like to kindly ask you to let us know what on earth was wrong with that ONE SINGLE LINE we added about the list of toothpaste brands?! I ask this because I saw many suchlike lines existing in WIKI already. Many thanks for your help and (re)consideration. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elham377mm (talk • contribs) 08:45, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Your behavior has been similar to spamming. This edit suggests an interest in using social media for "branding". Wikipedia is not a platform for promotion or advertising. Your colleagues are acting in together to restore spam you have added. The ONE SINGLE LINE was inappropriate because it was supported by an unreliable source. As I said at the time, it doesn't appear to meet WP:RS, and is likely a press release or similar. Again, Wikipedia is not a platform for promotion. I also removed many other inappropriate lines from that article, and you (and your colleagues) restored them without any explanation at all. Further, as I explain above, you have promoted this brand of toothpaste on another page, and in your own sandbox. Spam damages Wikipedia, and your addition of copyrighted material is against Wikipedia's policies and is very disruptive, hence the "suspicion". Grayfell (talk) 09:01, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 00:25, 25 December 2020 (UTC)