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03 September 2013

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Both are SPAs who edit solely at articles related to Lambda (olive oil), including Speiron the company that makes it.

Both pages both are edited overwhelmingly by these two when it comes to content (rather than formatting), as well as a number of other SPAs including, , , , , and , all of which seem keen to insert material about the company/product which seems at best tenuously notable, as well as keen to remove tags that mark the articles as having a promotional tone. Because most of these SPAs are long-since stale and unused, I have not included them in this filing. and, however, have both edited recently, which is why I am requesting CU for them. [ UseTheCommandLine  ~/ talk  ]# &#9604; 13:22, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

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. Behaviour evidence should be sufficient here. AGK [•] 14:47, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  15:52, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

16 September 2013

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Aside from a couple initial edits upon account creation, has been an SPA at the Stefanos (olive oil) page, in much the same way that  has been mostly an SPA at Lambda (olive oil). These SPAs both use the same, otherwise totally unused infobox, Template:Infobox OliveOil, and do so in the exact same way (for Lambda, see a previous revision for comparison, as recent edits have changed some of it). There are also significant similarities in the style of the clearly-promotional copy on the two pages.

These two articles are also the only articles to use this template (strange that an SPA would immediately know of such an obscure template), both are "luxury" olive oils, and both are headquartered in Athens, Greece.

Requesting CU for verification, but probably quite stale on the sock. [ UseTheCommandLine  ~/ talk  ]# &#9604; 07:07, 16 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Added new user, Stella stellina, an account created immediately after PRODing the Stefanos article. -- [ UseTheCommandLine  ~/ talk  ]# &#9604; 14:08, 16 September 2013 (UTC)


 * I'm now wondering if any of the probably way stale, not-explicitly-named SPAs in the previous Tassosl SPI could be linked to Stella stellina. The behavior, that of creating a new account and editing shortly/immediately after another editor marks the article as promotional, has appeared at the Lambda (olive oil) page before:
 * tag, new account and response/removal
 * tag, new account and response/removal
 * actual vandalism, new account and removal


 * Or, alternately, if any of these can be linked to the new SPI filing from regarding, below. I have half a mind to start poking around in the histories of any and all articles about greek olive oil after this. -- [  UseTheCommandLine  ~/ talk  ]# &#9604; 23:34, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

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 * Sorry, I was not aware that another SPI had been opened today. This one, with this sole edit so far, should be merged with the above, I take it. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:14, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

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 * Tassosl and DimitrisKo is one of those possilikely results (essentially right between and ). I'm not completely familiar with the traffic we get from the area this person has their IP in. They do use the same operating system and UA, but their networks differ on the same ISPs which could indicate another geographical location in a city. So behavoiral evidence will need a second look beyond my checkuser view to make the determination whether or not to block. Stella stellina is ❌. --  DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  19:45, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Merged two cases together. Note that was never checked by CU, and was not in a case requesting a CU. -- Sh i r ik  ( Questions or Comments? ) 23:06, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Behavior suggests is unrelated, especially with the introduction of  to the case. Blocked Vw8e indef and left the others alone. Closing case.  Sh i r ik  ( Questions or Comments? ) 23:11, 2 November 2013 (UTC)