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These 4 accounts are each a SPA, making negative edits at James White (theologian), a WP:BLP article. The master and 1st sock are too old, but the 2nd 2 socks are not.
 * September 2014: Master's first edits, adding 2 instances of "unaccredited" and link to the seminary page, and a popular translation among many fundamentalist and ultra-conservative Christians.. was reverted, restored it, was reverted, and restored it.  No more edits.
 * March 2017, Veritazzz adds section controverting the PhD from the unaccredited institution, was reverted. Came back in April 2017, added content about PhD with strange verb, "purchased".  Reverted.  Added back more criticism of Phd, reverted, added content about "procured" degree again, and strange section on Ergun Caner. And they were done.
 * 7 June 2017 Nuggeters shows up, and makes one diff series, about the unaccredited degree and adds "(Controversy)" to standard "Education" section header.
 * 7 July Liberty7777 and restores edits made by Nuggeters and adds section on views on Islam, using JihadWatch and other poor refs.  Is reverted. restores own edits.  Reverted. adds, new content including the purchased the PhD. and emphasizing "unaccredited" degree.  Reverted. adds back Islam section (basically same content as before) and again adding extra "unaccredited".  Rest of their diffs are more of the same.

Liberty7777 was brought to ANI for this BLP violating editing here, and User:Oshwah said they should be indeffed per the AE if the behavior continues. It has. I started filing at AE but then noticed this socking pattern where each account shows up, tried to edit war in negative stuff and goes away, and it seemed better to file here, and have a CU done. But Liberty7777 is here to harass this person, insisting on over-emphasizing negatives, and should be blocked regardless per the BLP DS. Jytdog (talk) 03:27, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  18:08, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Veritazzz and Truthynessmatters are stale. Liberty7777 and Nuggeters are ✅.  I've blocked the two confirmed socks, and indef protected the article in case of more socks.  Can a clerk evaluate the two stales to make sure they're in order and, if warranted, block? Courcelles (talk) 18:40, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ and tagged all four with suspect tags. Closing.