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Hollyeighteen and the three sock puppets write about government-owned assets (“public wealth”); in particular they write about the two collaborating Swedish economists Dag Detter and Stefan Fölster, and their books.

Hollyeighteen and the three sock puppets were created between 2016-10-24 16:02 and 2016-11-23 11:51. There are two problems: first problem is an apparent COI (COI is on COIN, here: ) and the second problem is sockpuppetry.

Smoking gun evidence 1: In October–November 2016, Hollyeighteen, Tigerinthesmoke and Sakakawean all created articles in the area of “public wealth”. All three made the same beginners mistake: they used superscript numbers when adding footnotes instead of reftags:
 * Hollyeighteen 17:44, 27 October 2016
 * Tigerinthesmoke 20:24, 16 November 2016‎
 * Sakakawean 14:42, 23 November 2016

Smoking gun evidence 2 Hollyeighteen and Timeforteapet are linked by their edits in Fakenham. On a few occasions, Hollyeighteen and the sock puppets have made edits about film and the arts. In the article Fakenham, at 18:41, 14 September 2017, Hollyeighteen added a section on Fakenham Film Society:. It was removed after 32 minutes. At 11:45, 25 October 2017, Timeforteapet put in very similar words:. If Hollyeighteen and Timeforteapet are two different people, these things have to be true: The probability is close to zero. Timeforteapet is Hollyeighteen’s sock puppet.
 * 1) Two different people start editing Wikipedia in October–November 2016.
 * 2) Both of them are interested in the not very famous Dag Detter and his co-authored book.
 * 3) Both of them also want to write about the small obscure Fakenham Film Society i provincial England.
 * 4) The inexperienced user Timeforteapet either sees Hollyeighteen’s quickly removed edit, or digs it up from Fakenham history in Timeforteapet’s third edit ever, and decides to add words very similar to Hollyeighteen’s.

I could provide more circumstantial evidence, but the instructions say a report should be brief.

This matters because the four accounts have tried to add a lot of text to articles that concern the work of the two economists, who are of marginal notability in the first place, and there is also an apparent COI. The accounts are used abusively to give the impression that different users are adding a lot of text to the affected articles, and to conceal the COI (which is dealt with separately on COIN). I suggest the sock puppet master and the three sock puppets be blocked. Min hemliga identitet (talk) 04:05, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

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 * Three of the accounts have stopped editing, two of them over 2 years ago. It doesn't look like blocks (which are meant to be preventative) would prevent anything. The editor who is still active is making useful edits unrelated to the COI topic. Closing. Cabayi (talk) 08:35, 20 February 2020 (UTC)