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See the page history on Treeium Inc: the named master has declared he has been paid to edit this article. The other accounts haven't, but seem to have found it, which is odd considering it is an obscure company.

All three have similar styles and quirks when it comes to edit summaries (not saying more per BEANS) and Vanillasky789 has a relatively similar format of PAID disclosure on their talk.

Also note similar username formats. I'm not sure if this is socking or MEAT, but the three accounts are definitely related, and per the recent ArbCom ruling, all likely share a COI on this article even if it is three different freelancers helping one another out.

Checkuser is to try to confirm, but also because Darkhorse99 appears to also be EC gaming or trying to hide what he is on Wikipedia for. If you look at his contributions, the only substantial one is here and they remind me of a pattern I have seen repeated in other UPE farms. This account in particular warrants a CU to see if it is connected to other farms beyond the accounts listed here. TonyBallioni (talk) 21:06, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

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 * Those three are ✅ as well as User:Darkhorse99, User:Derpinkepanther,, and . All blocked without tags.Courcelles (talk) 21:28, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Case moved, all tagged, closing. GABgab 21:49, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

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Recreated Steve Hulford with the same content as the version of one of the blocked users User:Drmaisel. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:09, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
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 * You haven't opened the case correctly so it doesn't show up at Sockpuppet_investigations. Use the 'ARV' option of TWINKLE when on the userpage of a suspected sock and it is super easy to file. Before seeing this though, I emailed and  with evidence about Smileverse which links them to many other users, but which I think is sensible to keep private. SmartSE (talk) 21:54, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Smileverse was . SmartSE (talk) 21:18, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

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After Articles for deletion/Deep Eddy Vodka Distillery closed as delete, recreated it at Deep Eddy Vodka. That was G5d after Drmaisel was blocked but then recreated by Nidhi.b.dalal. At Articles for deletion/Deep Eddy Vodka a large number of new accounts listed here turned up to !vote keep. I doubt that they are all linked, but at the same time I can't believe they none of them are socks either. Many of the accounts show other signs of UPE that I'd prefer not to discuss in public but am happy to via email if this isn't enough to merit a check. SmartSE (talk) 21:15, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * Caninelover is . The remaining accounts are ❌ to each other and to the master.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:18, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
 * , I've gone through these and blocked all the accounts indefinitely for WP:MEAT. I also agree that this is UPE. Likely a bunch of different contractors for the same firm that farms out white label jobs from the looks of it. Some of them also have creations that you may want look at. Closing this one. TonyBallioni (talk) 01:25, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

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Duck: re-created unsalted Aly Ryan at Aly Ryan (musician), then moved it to Draft:Aly Ryan (musician). See also Draft:Aly Ryan, Aly Ryan (Musician), and edits from previous socks User:Mrscastillo01 and User:Hunter VanHook. TMGtalk 17:29, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Dungeon requests Aly Ryan and new user, LegendBalr creates it. If these are not direct socks this is clear meat. CHRISSY MAD ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  15:10, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

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Yes. Certainly something dodgy going on here. Given and, I'm adding Idera1123 to the list. SmartSE (talk) 16:14, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

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 * - Please, compare those accounts to each other.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  08:08, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
 * LegendBalr and DungeonMasterr are ✅ to each other. Jweston007 is to . Idera1123 is a technical match to  but . Blocked the two confirmed accounts without tags.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:23, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
 * based on 's evaluation of this case involving undisclosed paid editing by meatpuppets, and the fact that all of the remaining unblocked accounts exhibited behaviours of that group (long idle periods, close paraphrasing of promotional sources, creating articles about non-notable English musicians) I have blocked the remaining accounts without tags. I hope this doesn't conflict with anything you were working on.  please tag any suspect articles with WP:G5 or send to AfD for the borderline cases. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:19, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

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Immediately following Dungeon's block, up pops this account removing G5 tags on his articles. CHRISSY MAD ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  18:45, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

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 * Blocked; closing this one while pondering the one above. Favonian (talk) 11:40, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

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I've blocked ChrisGriswold as a seemingly comprimised account. They were an admin back in 2006 who barely edited until this year when they recreated two articles that were salted at different titles: Arjun Malhotra (entrepreneur) cf. Arjun Malhotra and Rome Douglas (American football) cf. Rome Douglas. The Rome Douglas article was previously created by a sock of this master. CalebEdwardAllistair a photo of Malhotra and  Aleya Sen, an article created by Globe2trotter, who I've previously suggested was a sock of Gabriel Costa. SmartSE (talk) 10:06, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Added e.g. page creation, image addition by Globe2trotter. SmartSE (talk) 09:56, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

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 * - CheckUser won't tell us anything useful. ChrisGriswold is stale. (I'm assuming they have no deleted edits after their most recent visible ones.) The other two would have been caught up in the last check on 12 July. That being said, the behaviour also points to this being multiple people, possibly engaged in paid editing. Between their claims to hold the copyright on the image of Arjun Malhotra and this previous disclosure by another editor, CalebEdwardAllistair almost certainly is and should probably be blocked on those grounds. I'm less sure about Globe2trotter. I'll leave that evaluation to your discretion. Sir Sputnik (talk) 03:59, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Repinging due to typo. Sir Sputnik (talk) 04:00, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I've gone ahead and blocked . I'll leave the other account to Smartse's discretion as to whether or not to take action; I don't see anything beyond circumstantial evidence and over a long period of time to justify blocking the other account myself.  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   04:08, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * If people wouldn’t mind keeping this open for a bit, I’d appreciate it. there is some overlap here with an ar account that follows a very similar format and I suspect might be advertising. ar paid groups tend to be meat puppets and I’ll send Ala’a an email about this to see if he knows anything. TonyBallioni (talk) 04:21, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Also,, might be a good idea to change this to open since two admins and a steward are aware of it now. Keeps people from rushing to review ;) TonyBallioni (talk) 04:28, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * With UPE it's often impossible to tell who the master is and there is a lot of MEAT, but as there was some link to this case it made sense to me to file it here. When there is evidence of socking, it is common for the non-stale users to be CUd in order to try and find others. In the case of Globe2trotter, there are hallmarks in their editing (happy to explain via email) that make it extremely likely that they are a long term abuser and as such should be CUd. Thanks for pointing out the crossover with . It would be good if they were CUd as well. SmartSE (talk) 09:54, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Alaa says there isn't evidence of socking on ar. The accounts here may be different though. TonyBallioni (talk) 15:10, 3 October 2018 (UTC)


 * I've moved this back into the open queue as requested. Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:18, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Please do explain in more detail, by email if necessary. Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:59, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * - Given the evidence provided by Smartse by and some private general feedback from Katie, I'm endorsing this for a check. Will provide both to the evaluating CU on request. Sir Sputnik (talk) 17:11, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm going to give this a wildly . There are too many factors that you would have to take into account to make a proper assessment of the data from CU. And if I were to explain the issues here, I'd have to breach privacy. So I will stick with inconclusive. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 19:26, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. That's not surprising. I just independently came across Globe2trotter again and think the evidence is overwhelming so will block them and مينا جمال صبحي and G5. SmartSE (talk) 19:59, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

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WP:SPA that created Jon L. Wanzek. Jon Wanzek was G5 as created by a sock of Jasleen Ahluwalia. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:55, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

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 * The last Jasleen Ahluwalia sock was over 3 years ago, and looking at Jon L. Wanzek vs Jon Wanzek they're substantially different. Based on the evidence presented here, I'd say UPE likely, socking not so much. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:19, 15 January 2022 (UTC)