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Disruptive promotional editing relating to a rapper variously known as "Kevin Howard", "Cali Kev" and "Vinny Chase". Kevin Howard currently pertains to a baseball player and all three accounts have edited it to replace it with very similar content about the rapper: see diffs for QBWRIST, 777BANS (sole edit), 6RingBrady. QBWRIST and 6RingBrady have both also edited Vinny Chase, a page about the same rapper. Also some similarities in edit summaries: edit by 777BANS vs the first edit to Draft:Cali Kev by QBWRIST (a third page about the same rapper). Requesting checkuser to confirm the connection and find any further accounts. Wham2001 (talk) 20:28, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * , I had listed QBWRIST twice but missed 6RingBrady. I've added a second  back in: apologies for the error. Wham2001 (talk) 21:13, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

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✅ + . . Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:12, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

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The master was blocked by Bbb23 back in March for using sockpuppets to disruptively promote a rapper variously called "Kevin Howard" and "Cali Kev". In particular they hijacked the page Kevin Howard to describe the rapper; examples diff diff. Note the addition of a birthday of Jan 15, 1990. Two successive edits from this range today (diff) disrupted Kevyn Major Howard, changing the name to that of the rapper, adding the same birthday and mentioning "Cali Kev". Looking back through range contributions from the last two months there are sporadic disruptive edits to Kevin Howard adding the same birthday (diff diff). I feel that this suggests that the /64 is (a) relatively stable and (b) assigned to the same person who was previously promoting the rapper using sockpuppets. Wham2001 (talk) 20:17, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

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 * Range blocked, closing. ST47 (talk) 16:54, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

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Disruptive edits promoting the rapper Cali Kev (Kevin Howard), again. In March 2019,, , and hijacked the page Kevin Howard to describe Cali Kev (diff, diff, diff). In October 2019, the IPs listed above (170.170...), all of which are from FedEx, similarly hijacked the page Daddy Kev to describe Cali Kev (diff, diff, diff). File:Cali Kev 2018.jpg was uploaded by their sockpuppet and added to the page Daddy Kev by 170.170.57.206 (diff). The same image was also added to the page Draft:CALI KEV by Feddyy123 (diff). 122.24.3.108 (talk) 08:09, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

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I can't see the deleted draft, obviously, but I remember it being more promotional, as is e.g. this. Creating a draft with a tag is a bit odd, but I think implies that it might not be the same person, and they could have found the image coincidentally. Thanks for the rangeblock; I agree that the IPs are clearly them. Wham2001 (talk) 08:13, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

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 * 170.170.57.205/22 looks like it's a VPN/proxy for either employees or customers of FedEx Office stores, and matches the pattern of hijacking other pages to promote this person. This Feddyy123 account I'm not sure about, other than reusing the image, does their draft match up with any of the previous socks? I'll go ahead and block the range. ST47 (talk) 05:47, 10 October 2019 (UTC)


 * ✅ - A l is o n  ❤ 05:53, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Feddyy123, IPs already blocked by . The SandDoctor  Talk 03:55, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

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Re-creation of promotional draft on non-notable rapper "Cali Kev", alias "Kevin Howard", who was the sole editing focus of master and previous socks. Suggesting checkuser for confirmation. Wham2001 (talk) 10:30, 29 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Also the username resembles previous sock . Wham2001 (talk) 10:32, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

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✅, . — Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:23, 29 February 2020 (UTC)