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This is one of two cases I am filing now. The other is Sockpuppet investigations/Kiril43. This set of possible socks is "pro-Eric Arnoux"; the other set is "anti". Per this source, Arnoux made his business in high end real estate, lived richly and apparently went deeply into debt, and has been charged with financial crimes (fraud, etc).

The first 2 IPs were the first ones on the scene after the page was created in way that emphasized the allegations; the 77' IP removed negative content and added positive content in November 2017, and the '46 followed up on that three days later. The master (the first named account) showed up in Jan 2018 (after the article creator had returned to restore the negative content). The master made two desultory edits elsewhere, then nominated this page for deletion under WP:G10 (later declined), made two more desultory edits, then vanished. Very likely an UPE.

Usernamesa1007 showed up in May 2018 and tried twice to blank the page in the space of 5 minutes. The pattern is clear already.

2 June 2018 Eric andre ARNOUX showed up and blanked the page, the day after content was added about Arnoux's relationship with "the worlds most expensive boarding school. That user later said here and here that he is Arnoux. The user blanked the page again, and blanked it again the next day, and again.

10-11 June Sofianichols showed up and made a series of edits removing negative content and adding postive/ameliorating content. They did the same in this series and this series. This person has made cryptic remarks e.g here about " I work on protection of minors and for some reasons i am obliged to manage this file". But their edits go far beyond the school matter.

I am asking for a CU. It is not clear if these are all one person or if it is accurate that one is Arnoux, one is perhaps his lawyer.. the master and Usernamesa1007 may be paid editors? There is definitely meat here. Jytdog (talk) 00:43, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

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The three puppets are. .--Bbb23 (talk) 14:35, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Tagged and closing. GABgab 20:18, 11 August 2018 (UTC)