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Tipped to this by Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard. A number of SPAs creating articles on MDPI-related journals around the same time, the submissions all appear to follow a similar template. This looks like a sockfarm to me, requesting CU to verify and check for sleepers. GeneralNotability (talk) 15:02, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't see any that are non-stale, but I note from a review of Category:MDPI_academic_journals that the non-redirect articles all look fairly similar and many have SPAs whose only purpose is to update the journal's impact factor. I'm having some flashbacks to the Lewoniewski farm here... GeneralNotability (talk) 15:15, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * - self-endorsing. (yes, yes, I know you won't comment on the IP) GeneralNotability (talk) 15:03, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * - Mz7 (talk) 18:26, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * All accounts listed above are ✅ in addition to the following accounts:
 * The following account is :
 * Mz7 (talk) 19:06, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * The following account is :
 * Mz7 (talk) 19:06, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * The following account is :
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 * Strong behavioral overlap with MiCocx, I suspect this group is quietly promoting MDPI in some way (there are several similar MDPI articles which might need review). all, moved to oldest account, closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 19:21, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

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Obviously another MDPI sock. Is the genus Anas within the scope of the journal? Robert McClenon (talk) 15:13, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, I should see if MDPI will publish my journal "Wikipedia Socks"... GeneralNotability (talk) 03:05, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

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This account is two years old and edited long before the sockpuppetry by MDPI became apparent, but this is clearly another MDPI account. The data is long since gone, but if it swims and quacks and eats insects, is it a mallard? Robert McClenon (talk) 15:36, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

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 * A stale duck is still a duck. . GeneralNotability (talk) 14:52, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

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Vladimir Senk has submitted another draft on another MDPI journal.

The IP, which changed a date, presumably is the throw-away account editing logged out.

Ducks, like all other animals, are organized into cells. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:00, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

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 * Yup, that's more of this farm., IP blocked one week, draft nuked. GeneralNotability (talk) 19:48, 2 November 2020 (UTC)