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14 September 2015

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User:Verbhg7 has made only 3 edits: all to Articles for deletion/Nextiva, an article created by BiH.   

User:Bigm07 has only edited Nextiva where among other edits they twice removed the AfD template  and and added Wikilinks to Nextiva at List of Arizona companies and List of corporations in Phoenix and List of unified communications companies and with fewer than 15 edits added themselves as a teahouse host

user:Walkeryh has made only 2 edits: Removal of AfD template at Nextiva and deletion of user votes

Kingglass 2 edits only, both to Articles for deletion/Nextiva at  and 2

User:Willi Joseph, ostensibly a paid editor 'working as a content creator' added Wikilinks to the Nextiva page, and created several promotional pages (since deleted). Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 22:25, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Added Lily87h, SPA with exactly two edits: one at Maggie Szabo and one at Tomas Gorny, both created by BiH. It's also curious that several accounts are of the pattern h (including the possible sockmaster) or 7 and, in this case, 7h. — Brianhe (talk) 23:03, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

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The pattern of creating an account [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Willi_Joseph&oldid=588961145], which then goes dormant for months until needed to work on a COI-ful article [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nextiva&diff=prev&oldid=674347216], is a screaming, flaming red flag. — Brianhe (talk) 22:45, 14 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Willi Joseph is pretty obviously a paid editor, but I doubt he's related to BiH or the others. His only edit to Nextiva was to add a link in the "See also" section to one of the articles he created . He did that to two other unrelated articles. However perhaps should be added to this SPI as a sock or meat of the various new editors listed above. His first edit was to Talk:Nextiva protesting the AFD. Note also this edit to Kudpung's talk page which he later removed. The style and gist are very similar to this one by Verbhg7 at the AfD. Voceditenore (talk) 23:05, 14 September 2015 (UTC)


 * From Sockpuppet_investigations/Verbhg7



Sockmaster created, followed by suspected sockpuppet 15 minutes later to alter voting consensus on Articles for deletion/Nextiva. Both have edited in the same style, with no other editing input. Richard Harvey (talk) 00:10, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

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All blocked and tagged except Willi Joseph. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:59, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
 * With respect to the declared paid work of any editor, I do not think we ought to delete declared paid articles except under our usual criteria. This is especially true if an individual is an undeclared editor trying to reform. At this point, if someone did that, we might find ourselves in a situation requiring us to delete all their future declared work regardless of merit, and this would be insanely counter-productive. Even automatically deleting their earlier undeclared work once they declared themselves would discourage any incentive to reform.  DGG ( talk ) 23:29, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Group 1 – The following accounts are ✅ to each other and ❌ to BiH:
 * is to Group 1 and ❌ to BiH.
 * is ❌ to Group 1 and to BiH.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:41, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * is to Group 1 and ❌ to BiH.
 * is ❌ to Group 1 and to BiH.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:41, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * is to Group 1 and ❌ to BiH.
 * is ❌ to Group 1 and to BiH.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:41, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * is to Group 1 and ❌ to BiH.
 * is ❌ to Group 1 and to BiH.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:41, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * is ❌ to Group 1 and to BiH.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:41, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I copied this case from Sockpuppet investigations/BiH and tagged appropriately. Closing now.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  09:18, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

I merged Sockpuppet investigations/Verbhg7 here based on the conclusions above . TDL (talk) 12:28, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
 * and, many thanks for sorting these cases out and for the tagging.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:31, 15 September 2015 (UTC)