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three apparently very dedicated SPAs trying to spam BEAMSTART/Draft:Beamstart by way of removing tags with new accounts, etc... Praxidicae (talk) 14:48, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

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 * , Draft:Beamstart was also edited by Kkodakk, one of the Yoodaba socks you blocked. Could you take a look here and see if anything seems familiar? -- RoySmith (talk) 20:36, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the ping . This is a strange one. Normally, I would suspect Iamkenho of plain old COI editing (Kenneth Ho is the founder or something of BEAMSTART). However, looking at their edits...those look very UPE to me (interest in corporate trivia like funding, new products, and sales). Looking at their one overlapping edit, that looks like some kind of a touch-up to the draft (since Yoodaba is a suspected UPE farm, maybe they paid for a quick cleanup to a declined draft?). My suspicion is that the Mcgan users are meatpuppets of some sort (either COI or mercenary). I have all accounts (it looks like Iamkenho was editing while logged-out, blocked that range two weeks as well). Not going for a temporary block on the master because they really look like a covert promotional editor even if their username suggests that they're the CEO of BeamWhatever. I'm leaving this open because I'm not sure whom to file it under - the oldest account is Mcgan17, but I feel like Iamkenho is the "primary" account here. Will leave the question of who to mark as master and tag to another clerk. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:25, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm going with the Mcgan1986 twins; Mcgan1986 was the first of the three to edit anything related to Beamstart. Tagging and closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:08, 24 November 2020 (UTC)