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Hello all. This is an urgent request concerning efforts to whitewash a BLP of a political candidate running in an election tomorrow. In December 2020, user edited the page of St. Louis politician and 2021 mayoral candidate Lewis E. Reed to add a different image. Mgoodman1 then added a lot of information to the article about various legislation Reed had passed, sourced to city government press releases, that cast Reed in an overly flattering light. I first noticed the inclusion of the copyrighted image and removed it from the page and nominated it for deletion on Commons under WP:F9 (diff not available as the file was indeed deleted). After discovering this, I tagged the page with an undisclosed paid template and filed an ANI report, visible here; admins concluded the same and partially blocked Mgoodman1. However, in February 2021, other new users have attempted to remove well-sourced but negative content from the article without explanation. These users are a user with "Ms. M" in the username and another with U. City in the username. This is incredibly concerning. I have already filed a report at WP:RPP seeking temporary semi-protection of the page and I am now requesting a sockpuppet investigation here. Thank you. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 03:27, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
 * The page has now been semi-protected by admin ; thank you El C. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 14:58, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
 * For sure, AllegedlyHuman. Didn't know of this SPI, but happy I could help. El_C 16:18, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * Also found and ✅:
 * Bagging and tagging confirmed accounts.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   21:52, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Also found and ✅:
 * Bagging and tagging confirmed accounts.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   21:52, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Bagging and tagging confirmed accounts.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   21:52, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Bagging and tagging confirmed accounts.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   21:52, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Bagging and tagging confirmed accounts.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   21:52, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Bagging and tagging confirmed accounts.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   21:52, 1 March 2021 (UTC)


 * For UserUcity, it feels more like WP:MEAT than WP:SOCK, but nonetheless, closing. Mz7 (talk) 00:07, 3 March 2021 (UTC)