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Both are WP:SPAs whose sole goal is to promote a Chinese businessman named Zhang Lijun. Timmyshin (talk) 22:27, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

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 * Also adding (see deleted contribs) and requesting CheckUser to confirm the connection (each of these accounts have only made 1 edit so far, could be meatpuppetry). Mz7 (talk) 20:46, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * - Definitely suspicious. Thanks, GABgab 03:54, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ = Ren Yifan.  technically is ❌. - Mailer Diablo 14:18, 10 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Sock indeffed, master blocked for 3 days. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  15:07, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

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Recreating Zhang Lijun (business person)/Zhang Lijun(entrepreneur) as Zhang Lijun(enterpriser). Timmyshin (talk) 21:02, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

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Privacypolicyer is a CheckUser confirmed sockpuppet of 123Aristotle at zhwiki, see their userpage there -★- PlyrStar93. → Message me. 🖉← 23:25, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * see also SPI for 123Aristotle at enwiki -★- PlyrStar93 . → Message me. 🖉← 23:27, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * They may also be related to Sockpuppet_investigations/Mokezhilao since the user who uploaded Zhang Lijun's photo 2 weeks ago, User:前三夜, has been blocked for being a suspected sock puppet of Mokezhilao. Timmyshin (talk) 18:36, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:36, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
 * At some point, we're going to have to make a call on whether to merge this with Mokezhilao and 123Aristotle. GABgab 15:15, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree, but waiting on clarification below. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:56, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

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Recreating Zhang Lijun (business person)/Zhang Lijun(entrepreneur)/Zhang Lijun(enterpriser) as Zhang Lijun(disambiguation). The article should be deleted & salted like the others. Timmyshin (talk) 19:38, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:36, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

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Zhanglijun/Zhang Lijun (business person)/Zhang Lijun(entrepreneur)/Zhang Lijun(enterpriser)/Zhang Lijun(disambiguation) recreated as Draft:Zhang Lijun（CEO）. Timmyshin (talk) 23:06, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

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Now that this case has been endorsed for CheckUser, I am leaving a side note here. -★- PlyrStar93. → Message me. ← 01:58, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
 * There is an account Privacypolicyer above that has been blocked both on zhwiki and enwiki.
 * This account is confirmed as a sockpuppet of 123Aristotle by a CheckUser at zhwiki, meaning the accounts are technically indistinguishable there. I was reporting 123Aristotle's socks on zhwiki and didn't report this account (never knew this account exists at the time of report), but the CU got it even without any edits, basically meaning this is a sleeper account at zhwiki.
 * On the other hand, Privacypolicyer is confirmed as a sockpuppet of Ren Yifan per behavioral evidence here, so I don't think this account has been checked technically here to determine which master it belongs to. I am guessing that we don't merge case without CU result here?
 * Please be advised that although we can take other wikis' CheckUser result as a clue, even their CU might give "strange result" and we are unable to merge cases here (see an unrelated case).
 * Please also refer to archived cases of 123Aristotle SPI. According to the CU there were technical differences between Ren Yifan and 123Aristotle at that time, but we can always merge the cases if a connection has been established here at enwiki.


 * Please also consider merging to Sockpuppet investigations/Mokezhilao. Notice Shabi256's only other contribution is Draft:DRAGON GUARD and that DRAGON GUARD has been salted since last year due to persistent recreations by Mokezhilao's (suspected) socks. Timmyshin (talk) 22:34, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

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 * and page deleted again. - this is a bit relentless, I'd like a CU for sleepers please, or any other connections that might be useful. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:38, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Shabi256 is ✅ to, a proven Ren Yifan sock, and , an account I ran last mont as part of Sockpuppet investigations/Xuan98xuan.
 * Technically speaking, it's possible that 123Aristotle, Xuan98xuan, Mokezhilao, and Ren Yifan are all the same master, but as I said in one of the other SPIs, the devices are a little different. We may be looking at a group with different devices (and different English skills) in the same room or building. Katietalk 16:10, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
 * My assumption is these are all part of a related editing-for-hire operation, perhaps run by students of a university or something like that. I'm disinclined to try merging all of these cases, it would be a lot of work and I don't think it would be of much benefit. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:18, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

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Zhanglijun/Zhang Lijun (business person)/Zhang Lijun(entrepreneur)/Zhang Lijun(enterpriser)/Zhang Lijun(disambiguation)/Draft:Zhang Lijun（CEO） recreated as Draft:Zhang Lijun (disambiguation). Notice this user also created Draft:Justin Sun = Justin Sun = Sun Yuchen = Yuchen Sun which have been repeatedly created by Mokezhilao's socks, see Sockpuppet investigations/Mokezhilao. Timmyshin (talk) 01:09, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

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 * please use the instructions at Sockpuppet investigations to open new investigations, and don't copy the code from older filings.
 * , but to check for sleepers, given this case's history. Please ping me when done. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:00, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I'll post results in the section below. ~ Rob 13 Talk 10:09, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

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Created Dragon Guard Eas Ltd = Draft:DRAGON GUARD which was deleted a couple of days ago. Notice DRAGON GUARD has been salted since last year. Timmyshin (talk) 22:56, 9 October 2017 (UTC) Timmyshin (talk) 22:56, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

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Noted at COIN. ☆ Bri (talk) 21:18, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
 * This came up at COIN earlier, with cross-connections noted to the Anatha Gulati sockfarm. WP:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 118 ☆ Bri (talk) 13:14, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

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~ Rob 13 Talk 10:09, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * Vixvovessor and the second group are ✅ (might be a good idea for to take a peek at that - last entry from me in the CU log with this SPI as the reason). I separated the groups mostly because Daidueerr is blocked as a sock of 123Aristotle while Privacypolicyer is blocked under this SPI. I will echo what Katie said above about the possibility these are multiple people operating very closely together. ~ Rob 13 Talk 10:41, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
 * - please hold on tagging, I'm up to something. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:15, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocking all socks without tags for the time being. There's a complicated merge afoot, I'll update tags afterwards. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 01:37, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * Vixvovessor and the second group are ✅ (might be a good idea for to take a peek at that - last entry from me in the CU log with this SPI as the reason). I separated the groups mostly because Daidueerr is blocked as a sock of 123Aristotle while Privacypolicyer is blocked under this SPI. I will echo what Katie said above about the possibility these are multiple people operating very closely together. ~ Rob 13 Talk 10:41, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
 * - please hold on tagging, I'm up to something. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:15, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocking all socks without tags for the time being. There's a complicated merge afoot, I'll update tags afterwards. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 01:37, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * - please hold on tagging, I'm up to something. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:15, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocking all socks without tags for the time being. There's a complicated merge afoot, I'll update tags afterwards. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 01:37, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

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Account created the same day Vixvovessor was confirmed a sockpuppet. Same style: Compare Wang Mengde/Tse Kam Pang by Vixvovessor, with Draft:Richard Yu/Draft:Caitlyn Chen by Jooktmggs. Timmyshin (talk) 22:31, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

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 * - probably, but please check for sleepers. The accounts confirmed in the report above this one haven't been blocked; I am about to fix that. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 01:35, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅. . ~ Rob 13 Talk 02:56, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * and drafts deleted. GABgab 03:38, 17 October 2017 (UTC)