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Possible socking focused on Articles for deletion/Kang Daniel (2nd nomination)

Silvermist95 and HimeChan both have similarly formatted non-standard AfD votes and appear to be SPAs:

Moon Gin created the page perfectly formatted as a draft:. Two days later when it was an obscure draft stuck in draftspace, HimeChan editted 30 minutes after Moon Gin twice, before it had been moved to the main space.

Requesting CU to confirm and check for potential other accounts. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:46, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I've added per the IP below and this diff TonyBallioni (talk) 13:14, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

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I don't mind you to check my IP Address and the other two users if you need to confirm that I don't use duplicate accounts to edit the page. Thank you. --Moon Gin (talk) 04:01, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Rather than sockpuppetry, meatpuppetery is more likely as there are many new accounts showing up these few days to oppose the deletion. 31.166.152.59 (talk) 12:25, 5 October 2017 (UTC) ''' With his current popularity and notability in Kpop, it is not too surprising that the creation of Kang Daniel page has invited people to visit his page, and when they notice the AfD template above the page, some of them (which probably passive users of Wikipedia before) decided to add their opinion on the matter.--Moon Gin (talk) 07:20, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
 * The user has pretty much admitted to meatpuppetry, along with User:Snowflake91's evidence which pretty much suggested that the accounts are created to sway the votes. 144.138.75.78 (talk) 15:41, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I never admit to do meatpuppetry and me and user "HimeChan" actually worked together in creating the page. The evidence by "Snowflake91" only shows what is obvious as "HimeChan" had stated its participation in the creation of the page even before "Snowflake91" states it. About new accounts voting - '''I did not encourage fans or anyone to vote but I can't stop them from voting either. The article regarding the subject obviously has been known to other users out there, experienced or not, fans or not, and they come to vote here. Now if there are more of suspected fans voting here I guess that is purely logical as the ones who will visit the subject's page are people who are searching of the subject (which in this case mostly composed of his fans)--Moon Gin (talk) 16:37, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

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 * HimeChan is ❌, and the rest are at best. This appears more likely to be meatpuppetry than sockpuppetry. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 16:31, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
 * With the AfD in question closed, and the alleged meatpuppets inactive (probably as a result), no further action is needed here. Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:37, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

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WP:DUCK. EternalRose0 is an SPA that has not been used for any purpose other than supporting Moon Gin in discussions related to K-pop star Kang Daniel, and another user expressed their suspicion during the AFD. The account had been dormant for almost two years since the AFD was closed, but is now suddenly reactivated to support Moon Gin in a new discussion on the talk page. The CU for the last SPI expressed strong suspicion of meatpuppetry. Zanhe (talk) 06:14, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
 * As noted above as well as in the previous complaint by others, this is more likely a case of meatpuppetry than sockpuppetry, which is why I did not request a CU in the first place. -Zanhe (talk) 00:33, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

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 * Probably worth a check. Suspected master/puppet both non-stale. -- The SandDoctor Talk 21:05, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
 * ❌, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:52, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Based on the specific technical results, it is virtually impossible that the two users are meat puppets.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:26, 14 October 2019 (UTC)