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Created Baldev Duggal, an article that has been created twice by socks (User:Behaver and User:PhotoguyNY). Sro23 (talk) 19:10, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:11, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

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Created Baldev Duggal (entreprenuer), basically an exact copy of the Baldev Duggal article which had to be salted because it was repeatedly being recreated by socks. Sro23 (talk) 04:01, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

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 * ✅, block and tagged. Mike V • Talk 18:58, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

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 * Chaker Khazaal (author) Adding ref per previous block evasion  - same as user User:Ousewind - sock of User:Mikethomas8585.
 * Behaviour: New account, with highly suspicious behaviour immediately adding and removing COI/notability tags. Widefox ; talk 22:41, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Overlap of articles with (non-involved party) User:Bilby who tackled prev block evasion / COI. Widefox ; talk 23:05, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Behaviour evidence: group of suspicious / blocked / not fully disclosed paid editors & accounts (listed here first, but possibly need to be explored at WP:COIN to work out exact connections/COIs):
 * Possible sockfarm/meats
 * Patrick Warren
 * created by User:Lazaearth
 * User:Khocon also edited (paid editor, not fully disclosed)
 * Paolo Petrocelli
 * User:Jbmalone creator - a blocked sock of (paid editor, not fully disclosed)
 * User:Tate2016 edited
 * Rob Shirakbari
 * creator
 * editor

User:Bbb23 - thanks, just finished adding other accounts. Widefox ; talk 00:30, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

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Tate2016 is ❌ to Mikethomas8585 but ✅ to. Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:28, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I should have paid more attention before agreeing to check. Both of these accounts are considerably older than the master, and the evidence is insufficient to connect them to the master. Reclosing.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:39, 18 November 2016 (UTC)