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27 September 2015

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Suspicious account activity has been noted in all Literacyadviser, Friend of Alice, RooMorgue and 209.188.124.19 accounts in relation to the Inanimate_Alice article over a number of years. I estimate there is a high chance that each of the above accounts is being run by the same person, especially as the operator of one of the accounts - that of user - has today openly admitted to WP:CONFLICT and WP:ADVOCACY via the Talk:Inanimate Alice page by confessing their professional involvement in the Inanimate_Alice project - here's a direct quote from that page by : "I have done some freelance work in the past, as an independent contractor, some of which is already included in the entry (I did expand and update) but not in the majority of the content that I added.". I assume the sockpuppetry involved is to mask the fact of 's professional affiliations to Inanimate_Alice. Additional evidence for the Literacyadviser, Friend of Alice, RooMorgue and 209.188.124.19 accounts all being run by the same individual is as follows:
 * 1) All of Literacyadviser, Friend of Alice, RooMorgue and 209.188.124.19 accounts have editing patterns that are exceedingly similar, are done in clusters, with multiple revisions and versions being carried out over condensed periods of time.
 * 2) All of the Literacyadviser, Friend of Alice, RooMorgue and 209.188.124.19 accounts have gone above 3RR.
 * 3) The majority of all the edits from all 4 accounts lack edit summaries, and of those few that have edit summaries, none present any disclosure of WP:CONFLICT.
 * 4) The majority of all the edits from all alleged sockpuppet accounts fail to acknowledge any of the edit summaries from other Wikipedia editors, even though this feedback has subsequently proven to be correct (again, see Talk:Inanimate Alice for proof).
 * 5) Every edit from each of the Literacyadviser, Friend of Alice, RooMorgue and 209.188.124.19 accounts are edits made directly to the Inanimate_Alice article, besides 2 edits, and one of these 2 edits is to only add promotional content from  to the Everloop article about the Inanimate Alice project.
 * 6) The Literacyadviser, Friend of Alice, RooMorgue and 209.188.124.19 accounts routinely attempt to disrupt the editing process by attempting to insert information to do with project contributions from a certain freelancer and an associated company (I'm mindful of WP:OUTING here), as well as removing verifiable information to do with the Inanimate_Alice project.
 * 7) The Literacyadviser, Friend of Alice, RooMorgue and 209.188.124.19 accounts have consistently slanted article content on the Inanimate_Alice article by repeatedly adding excessive promotional (and consistently unexplained) edits which bloat the article, even though other editors (myself included) have attempted to inform them of their WP:CONFLICT, WP:ADVOCACY, WP:SELFPROMOTE, WP:NEUTRAL, WP:COIBIAS, and WP:FCOI conflicts. EdTechUSA (talk) 11:16, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Hi again  Vanjagenije , regarding providing diffs to support my case, please see the following. After a bit more investigating, I've also added another suspected sock puppet in use by at the IP address 24.180.82.35 - I hope it's ok to have added it in?
 * 1) Diff from  (sockmaster?) showing no manual edit summaries were added, and rapid repeat editing (often exceeding 3RR) in a condensed block of time on the Inanimate_Alice article.
 * 2) Diff from 209.188.124.19 showing the same pattern of editing that  shows: no manual edit summaries added and rapid repeat editing (often exceeding 3RR) in a condensed block of time on the Inanimate_Alice article.
 * 3) Diff from  showing the same pattern of editing that  displays: no manual edit summaries given, rapid repeat editing in a short period of time on the same Inanimate_Alice article.
 * 4) Diff from  showing again the same pattern of editing shown by : no manual edit summaries provided, rapid editing in a condensed block of time on the same Inanimate_Alice article.
 * 5) Diff from 24.180.82.35 showing the same pattern of editing as that used by : no manual edit summaries, rapid editing in a condensed block of time on the same Inanimate_Alice article.

Hope this proves to be helpful! EdTechUSA (talk) 07:03, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  10:09, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * - In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
 * 1) At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * 2) At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * 3) In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  13:28, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Indeffing master and socks, IP 209.xxx one week. Thease are COI accounts. Closing.