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I believe that Pimptronot is using IP addresses to promote himself by adding himself as one of the writers of Levels (Avicii song), despite no source claiming that he is, not even Discogs.

But before I do, here is a timeline of events: Note that I will be referring to myself in the third person.
 * On December 24, 2019, User:Pimptronot created his user sandbox.
 * On February 14, 2020, User:Pimptronot did his last edit on his user sandbox.
 * On March 16, 2020, an IP address, 2600:1017:b819:7dc7:4da7:a08c:5162:2a31, started editing the sandbox and subsequently made 6 more edits to the sandbox. These were the IP addresses first edits by the way.
 * On the same day, 2600:1017:b819:7dc7:4da7:a08c:5162:2a31 added Pimptronot's name to the writer's section in the infobox of Levels (Avicii song)
 * On the same day, 2600:1017:b819:7dc7:4da7:a08c:5162:2a31 added Pimptronot to the List of club DJs, claiming that Pimptronot worked with Avicii. The anon spelled Avicii's name wrong by the way.
 * On June 17, 2020, User:Davey2010 removed Pimptronot from the List of club DJs due to being not notable.
 * On August 2, 2020, User:Ojorojo de-wikilinked Pimptronot from the infobox of Levels (Avicii song) as part of a maintenance edit.
 * On August 18, 2020, User:Lazman321 removed Pimptront from the infobox of Levels (Avicii song) as part of a major edit.
 * On August 19, 2020, a new IP address, 2604:2000:4288:1400:f871:14d5:e4bf:b147, removed Pearl Woods's name from the infobox and added Pimptronot's name back in. This was the anon's only edit.
 * On August 31, 2020, User:Lazman321 re-removed Pimptronot from the infobox of Levels (Avicii song) as part of a copyedit.
 * On September 13, 2020, a new IP address, 2600:1017:b804:bf5b:61c7:d81c:e3b:7f, re-added Pimptronot's name to the infobox of Levels (Avicii song) right over Leroy Kirkland's name, claiming that its the "correct name". The edit was reverted by User:CLCStudent on the same day.
 * The next day, the same anon re-added Pimptronot's name back, this time, not replacing Leroy Kirkland. The edit was reverted by User:Lazman321 on the same day, due to not being able to find reliable sources.

To put this into context: An IP address was editing on Pimptronot's user sandbox. That IP address then edited Levels (Avicii song) and List of club DJs to promote Pimptronot. The only reason I could see why the IP address would do these edits if either, it was a fan of Pimptronot, even though Pimptronot is insanely obscure, or it was Pimptronot himself. Anyways, immediately after I removed Pimptronot from the infobox of Levels (Avicii song), another IP address added him back. After a while, I removed Pimptronot again. Then soon, another IP address added Pimptronot back. This time, the edit was immediately reverted by a different user. But then, the IP address added Pimptronot back. I reverted it back and requested the IP address to cite his sources in the talk page. It is worth noting these are the only edits of these two IPs. The thing is I was not able to find a single sorce that said that Pimptronot helped write Levels. The only reason I would think that these IP addresses would be adding Pimptronot to the infobox is if they were Pimptronot himself. On top of that, the three IP addresses are similar, being in the "260X:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX"XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX" series. I have put all three IP addresses through Geolocate and they are all from the state of New York. I rest my case. Lazman321 (talk) 05:04, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * I have no doubt that these are all the same person, but since the master hasn't edited since February I'm willing to consider that an abandoned account. None of the master's edits overlap with the IPs, so I'm hesitant to call it sockpuppetry. I will give the master a uw-login but won't take any other action. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:21, 17 September 2020 (UTC)