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08 May 2015

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These two users have been exhibiting very similar behavior in their promotion of Ervin Malicdem. The sockpuppeteer claims to be Ervin while Philippine Adventurer while Philippine adventure seeks to promote him wherever possible.

User page evidence: Both users claim to be from the Philippines and adventurer states his goal is to: "Making it a point that people who promote the Philippines is in Wikipedia."

Diff evidence: Adventurer has created a wikiquote on the subject here: which includes two links to Ervin's blog. Adventurer has also created Ervin Malicdem's article several times. First on April 11 which got speedy deleted under G11 for promotion. The next day he creates Draft:Ervin Malicdem which is declined four times and eventually for MfD at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Ervin Malicdem (2nd nomination) where the result is delete with four editors participating in the discussion. The only one who !votes keep is adventurer. Not being discouraged, adventurer recreates the article in mainspace only to have it sent to AfD at Articles for deletion/Ervin Malicdem by me. Six other editors have voted Delete with adventurer being the only keep vote.

He has also engaged in promoting schadow1's content here:  , among others.

They have also both added content to Mount Marami relating to shadow1 as well, adventurer even reinstating it after its removal by another editor. 

Here are some instances where shadow1 engages in the same self promotion behavior:   

Both editors are clearly the same person who is using another account to attempt to hide some of their COI issues. Winner 42 Talk to me!  01:39, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

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I apologize to Schadow1 for having dragged in to this. If you have issues with how I defend the creation of an article about him while citing rules and improving articles, do so the same way I do and not looking for other means such as this investigation. Philippine Adventurer (talk) 17:12, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

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 * I did some additional digging to see if I could establish a stronger connection for a check. I looked through the overlapping contributions and there were a couple of instances where the users would revert back to the preferred version. I then ran a check and found that both accounts are ✅ to each other. I've blocked the sock and issued a 1 week block to the master account. Mike V • Talk 17:39, 15 May 2015 (UTC)