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Sockmaster appears to be a PR person, writing articles to promote an actor Kevin L. Walker (under AFD) and related articles. Shortly after being warned about COI, a new single-purpose account Appreciatetherealones appeared out of the blue to create yet another Kevin-Walker-related article Love Triangle (film), and continued editing the Kevin L. Walker (diff), Donnabella Mortel(diff), and Vigilante Diaries(diff) articles, all of which were created by the alleged sockmaster.

The coincidence seems suspicious, hence requesting a checkuser. For a relatively new account, the user seems unusually experienced also, suggesting that there may be some sleepers. ~Amatulić (talk) 16:52, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

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✅, blocked and tagged. No other accounts seen. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:28, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

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I came across Wikilogic111 because they tried moving Draft:Kevin L. Walker to the mainspace on 3 October 2016, with the edit summary "Create Page Live". This page was created by Melissaburner and for this account to suddenly want to start transferring a page is pretty suspicious. This account was created on 22 September 2016, after Melissa was blocked, so this one might be a sockpuppet. They also edited Maurice R. Greenberg, but this might have been done in an attempt to get the account the permissions that come with making a certain number of edits. They also made Fourquadrant, which was deleted due to it being promotional. Melissa's edits tended to center around Walker, but she might have been an undisclosed paid editor.

Wikiswiki111 is a little bit older, as their account was created on 13 July 2016. They seem to have gone inactive a few days after that, so the account might have gone stale by the time the last SPI was done. The name is markedly similar to the other account and also makes some pretty promotional edits, as can be seen at MindStir Media. (Which I shall nominate for speedy deletion as spam and block evasion.) What also ties them is that they tried recreating Kevin L. Walker with a cut/paste on 3 October 2016. The article was quickly caught and tagged for deletion. From what I can see, it looks like it was a copy of Melissaburner's version of the article.

I'm going to go ahead and block them since this seems like it's at the very least a case of meatpuppetry and undisclosed paid editing. I'm listing this here so there's a record of this and so we can get a sweep to see if there are any socks out there that have been missed. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  09:38, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

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 * Already blocked. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  13:24, 3 October 2016 (UTC)


 * A checkuser should still be done. It isn't clear that these new accounts are the same as the original Melissaburner account, since the new Kevin L. Walker article had some substantial differences from the original. It would be helpful for a checkuser to confirm sockpuppetry here, at least to justify CSD G5 removals. ~Amatulić (talk) 21:58, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

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Recreation of Kevin L. Walker at Kelvin Walker. duffbeerforme (talk) 03:21, 6 October 2016 (UTC) duffbeerforme (talk) 03:21, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

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 * - . Obviously trying to circumvent the salt. Please block the sock. Thanks, GABgab 19:17, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, awaiting close. Katietalk 23:19, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, closing. GABgab 15:20, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

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Recreation of Kevin L. Walker (at Kevin L Walker like previous sock avoiding salt) and Donnabella Mortel. Total focus is on the promotion of these two individuals and Vigilante Diaries as previous accounts were. Diffs not available to me due to deletion but admins can see them. duffbeerforme (talk) 11:17, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * The master and the listed sock are both blocked, and the IP edits are way too old. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 14:55, 22 March 2018 (UTC)