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Both of these accounts are single-purpose accounts that have been editing only Draft:Behavioral Signals and related user talk pages. Second account showed up after first account was asked about conflict of interest (which they didn't answer). Not as blatant as some cases of pushing a draft, which is why I am requesting CU, but still has mallard feathers. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:13, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

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 * - What stands out to me here is promotional tone of the article on Shrikanth Narayanan, the founder of Behavioral Signs, and the number of SPA's editing that article also. Notably, one of these is called . As such, I think its unlikely for all of these accounts to be independent, especially given the COI concerns, though meatpuppetry is more likely than sock. Please block the two accounts listed here indefinitely. The others are all stale, so no action is needed. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:21, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't do these blocks. Agree that Shrikanth Narayanan has a promotional tone, but that article would survive AfD, since he has a zillion citations on Google Scholar and holds a named chair at USC. None of the accounts have been reverting normal article maintenance. So I'd leave this alone, though keeping a nervous eye on Draft:Behavioral Signals. Recently the draft survived an MfD at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Behavioral_Signals. Though the reviewers did not favor sending it to mainspace. There is another account called which so far has behaved correctly, though they may not have fully taken on board the COI warning. They admitted knowing the team here. There was a discussion with User:Legacypac here. EdJohnston (talk) 04:54, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
 * The filer of this SPI, User:Robert McClenon, now agrees that this SPI can be closed without further action and I would support that. EdJohnston (talk) 22:44, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Closing per the above. It seems more appropriate to take this through COI channels rather than sockpuppetry. ~ Rob 13 Talk 14:00, 7 June 2018 (UTC)