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OrangeEclipse is an apparent SPA for creating the draft-space article Draft:MainStreet (company). While the notability of the company is unclear (NCORP and NOTNEWS might push it out), the article as written has read as relatively promotional, and has been declined to be moved under the AFC process by three separate editors. This is where HamsKale enters; immediately after registering they did minor copyeditting on Astras, summing to eleven edits, and then they went silent for four days. After those four days had passed, they came back to move MainStreet out of draftspace into mainspace, being now allowed to under the 10/4 requirement, before vanishing again. This is possibly a meat puppetry issue, particularly given this is likely to also be a UPE issue, but I believe sock puppetry is also sufficiently likely, and thus is worth a check before being taken to the longer process of identifying MP and UPE. BilledMammal (talk) 23:57, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

Immediately after I made this edit, which itself comes shortly after I returned the article to draft-space, HansKale returned to request the article be considered under AFC. I have also added an IP that has placed one of the AFC requests on the page; apart from that edit, they have made two unrelated edits, and two edits to Bradley Tusk; an article that reads as promotional, for a person who has invested in MainStreet. BilledMammal (talk) 00:07, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

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 * - I agree that this pattern of editing is highly suspicious, and looks a lot like sock/meat puppetry.  Girth Summit  (blether)  18:03, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
 * - ~TNT (she/they • talk) 02:31, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
 * are ✅ to each other, and ✅ to . . ~TNT (she/they • talk) 02:34, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
 * - ManeBit is by far the oldest account, any objection if I move this case and fiddle with your tags? Girth Summit  (blether)  11:25, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Please carry on! ~TNT (she/they • talk) 14:14, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
 * rearranged tags to show oldest account as master; closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  11:16, 28 September 2021 (UTC)