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Each of these accounts is a SPA related to Mikhail Blagosklonny and two journals he started, Oncotarget and Aging (journal). They have also gone after the Jeffrey Beall article some.

Each one of these pairs one or more IPs with users
 * edited Oncotarget and then followed right behind and a bit later made this edit with edit note Jeffery Beal's blog is opinionated and has been taken down indefinitely due to false allegations. They hold no merit and therefore should not be represented. His links are not archived as they are a blog. Moreover,self-cite has noevidence
 * jumped in after Thomasrighthand with edit note This is a guest blog post. The author has asked to remain anonymous. The line holds no merit and it is not based on facts (about post at Beall's blog), which was reverted, then again deleted another IP
 * removed content Beall from the Blago article, was reverted by Rich Smith, who then left this note at the IP's talk page, and shortly thereafter made their first edit, responding to that TP note, but now on Rich Smith's tp.  Leendett went on to remove a big chunk of content from Blago article about Beall. as the IP had. with edit note The following content was removed based on the fact that none of the below-published resources were known as any reliable type of the online publications. Please note that personal blogs and personal opinion have nothing in comm.
 * Most recently we have who is hit all three articles, the talk pages of several admins, and EWN twice now.  All deriding the reliability of Beall and edit warring via the IP  and is very clear in history of the Blago article.  Same types of edits for the user and IP like Contested or likely to be contested information should not be added to a BLP page - please revise wiki policy - this is reckless - please stop editing pages of oncotarget and this BLP and join the discussions on talk and NB and gain consensus for the named account and WP:BLPSPS makes no exceptions for experts. Per WP:SPS, "NEVER use self-published sources as third-party sources about living people, even if the author is an expert, well-known professional researcher, or writer.".

This is brainless behaviorially, you can do a CU if you like. But has become wildly disruptive and it is time to indef them already. Jytdog (talk) 05:53, 4 December 2017 (UTC)


 * btw see EWN here and another one here. Jytdog (talk) 06:02, 4 December 2017 (UTC)


 * The CU decline is understandable. I look for administrative review of the behavioral evidence. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 21:06, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * MakinatorJones now indeffed after ANI filing. Jytdog (talk) 18:36, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

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Another close pair of user/IP with similar edits is (both removed the same paragraph as each other from Oncotarget in late October/early November 2016, with reasoning in the edit summaries indistinguishable from the more recent edit warriors). Also note this edit by 209.6.69.10 (an IP editor already listed above) in which the IP removes Leendett's name from a list of SPAs and writes "have removed myself". The list of SPAs also includes another one not listed here, James1347, but my feeling from looking at the contributions of James1347 is that that account is unrelated. —David Eppstein (talk) 11:20, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

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MakinaterJones is the only non-stale named account. CU declined.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:07, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * MakinaterJones is now blocked. There's nothing more to do here. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 19:23, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Obvious socks - SPA for Blagosklonny and associated journals, Oncotarget and Aging, removing negative content, adding promotional content, etc. Honorslaw all about journal rankings for Oncotarget - first this about "SCImago" ratings, then adding hype-y content about Clarivate Analytics rating [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oncotarget&diff=next&oldid=819510681 here and 2nd instance here and edit warred to try to keep it eg diff, diff. Gave up on Jan 12.

Dmzn8844 picked that right up, starting on Jan 21 with this and continued from there, and the third sock DavidMinerck whose name rings of the 2nd, has done the same.

I am also listing Mannan369 here; their editing has been semi-OK but kind of fishy to me, since they got here; and this was also noted by User:Smartse at their talk page here. If the sockmaster has a connection to Blagosklonny and is a scientist, these are the kinds of edits that scientists make (as though they were writing a scientific paper), and just today this person rolled around to the Oncotarget and made an incompetent or bad faith reading of two sources that are critical of Blagosklonny here: Talk:Oncotarget. This ~would be~ the behavior of a person trying to establish some credibility before sliding into the topic. Jytdog (talk) 20:30, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

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 * Other than the suspected puppets listed here, all users/accounts in this case are.
 * HonorsLaw and Mannan369 are ❌ to each other and to the other accounts.
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * Blocked the confirmed accounts without tags.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:06, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Tagged the confirmed sockpuppets. Closing. Sro23 (talk) 23:29, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Blocked the confirmed accounts without tags.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:06, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Tagged the confirmed sockpuppets. Closing. Sro23 (talk) 23:29, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Tagged the confirmed sockpuppets. Closing. Sro23 (talk) 23:29, 10 February 2018 (UTC)