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After a deletion in January of a promotional political brochure for Dana Nessel by MiPolitico, Sddart put in another promotional article at the same title, originally done at Draft:Dana Nessel. While Sddart's version differed in text, it had the same erroneous redirect link and R from move template at the top of it as MiPolitico's previous version, indicating that Sddata had edited that same version offline and reposted it. See original and repost. While the two are probably similar enough to consider ducks, they've been using sleeper socks that have made minor edits to bypass autoconfirmed move restrictions (see as well, likely too old to check), so it'd be nice to know if there are any more sleepers waiting. Seraphimblade Talk to me 03:39, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

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Peanuts and coffee here. Am not a puppet, although I have recently come across this video of one singing a Groucho Marx song. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peanuts and Coffee (talk • contribs) 04:03, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

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In addition to the two listed users, I've checked Peanuts and Coffee, who is the oldest account and not. The three users are ❌. There is a reasonable possibility they are meat puppets.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:36, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I think you are correct and it's either meat puppetry or a little WP:PAID clan. Peanuts and Coffee blocked for 2 weeks, the other two indef blocked and tagged. Ben   Mac  Dui  16:26, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Closing per Ben MacDui's actions. Bbb23 (talk) 17:33, 3 March 2018 (UTC)