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The article of Pete Hawkes has an exhaustive history of single purpose accounts all editing to promote the subject for the past 9 years. Note the reoccurring theme of moons, galaxies, music etc among some of the usernames. A look at the edit patterns suggests these accounts were all created by the same editor with a strong conflict of interest and largely using throwaway accounts to continue editing the same article. Of late they have become very combative and frustrated towards other editors adding the conflict of interest template to the article. Something very fishy is going on with the article on Pete Hawkes and after almost a decade it's time to bring an end to the ongoing disruption and possible paid editing the article is attracting. Longhair\talk 11:44, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * Indefinite ECP applied as a discretionary sanction.
 * See also Sockpuppet investigations/John17587. MER-C 16:58, 23 July 2021 (UTC)


 * I have no reason to doubt that these are the same person or working together, but given the very long history and the fact that these are all clearly throwaways, there's really not much point in blocking. The ECP should do the job. Note for the record that I don't think this is John17587 - this group wants mathematician added, at least one member of that group wanted it removed. GeneralNotability (talk) 15:37, 8 August 2021 (UTC)