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27 April 2013

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Promotional sock with the intent of promoting a company called RentAGoat. Identical article language used for similar promotional articles by both editors here and. User Mjrichmo removed a speedy on the promotional article created by PictureTrivia with this edit attempting to avoid the speedy deletion process. The user also attempted to avoid the detection of the similar articles to be cleaned with edits like this. Other examples of the promotional edits include, , ,. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 16:56, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

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I see continual removal of the COI tag I placed, the last time by with [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RentAGoat&diff=552497435&oldid=552464696 this edit which has the misleading  edit summary "deleted bad source" as it only moved a source with some sight rewording and deleted the COI tag. This IP is probably also who reverted  ConcernedVancouverite. We also now have replacing material I removed which is about conservation grazing and not about this company. Dougweller (talk) 05:50, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Ok, I now have two fairly identical edits on my talk page, one from PictureTrivia and the other from Mjrichmo. Dougweller (talk) 16:28, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
 * And at Mrjichmo has said he's warned me twice - as the first warning (for blanking the page, ie removing irrelevant material) was by PictureTrivia, so this is an admission of sock puppetry. Dougweller (talk) 16:54, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

It looks like the user is now carrying on with an IP address, reverting all the good work done by other editors to tidy up the article. --Biker Biker (talk) 22:05, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

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 * Blocked two named accounts via DUCK as indef, master for two weeks. Those IPs rotate frequently, so I sem-protected the three articles for one month via socking as that was a simpler solution. Dennis Brown - 2¢  © Join WER 13:55, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Adding for the record: I checked this due to an unblock request by Y2kdsp007. PictureTrivia and Mjrichmo are ✅ to one another. Y2kdsp007 is ❌. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 19:43, 16 May 2013 (UTC)