Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Anne Barrington

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• Михайло Зеленко (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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Somehow overlooked these during the SPI I filed yesterday. Михайло Зеленко was autocreated 18 January 2018, and worked on a few bios at UKwiki, including a request to restore deleted uk: Шестаков Дмитро Юрійович (Shestakov Dmitry Yuriovich) to their user page for further work. First edit here on ENwiki was 27 December 2024, where they created it as Draft:Dmytro Shestakov, and submitted it for review. Blocked sock User:Tysenbald's first edit on ENwiki was to move the draft to Dmytro Shestakov on 6 January, with the same canned edit summary used in their other moves from draft, "Peterwalker moved it", and removal of the draft template [1]. The article went to AFD on 8 January.

Dmytroshestakov was autocreated on ENwiki 15 December 2024, following edit-free account creation at UKwiki, 8 August 2024. Account's first edit was an odd preemptive request for protection misplaced at Talk:Dmytro Shestakov [2] on 7 January, a day before it was nominated at AFD. No other edits had been made to the article yet. The rest of their edits have been lengthy, repetitive filibusters at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dmytro Shestakov to "keep", which are being tactfully managed by the AFD nominator.

Михайло Зеленко has also been tag-team posting keep at the AFD with a very similar writing style: [3],[4],[5]. Yesterday Михайло Зеленко posted a reply to a COI warning at their user talk, including the admission This article is about a colleague we used to work with. According to Wiki policy, Dmytro Shestakov cannot make a publication about himself. Accordingly, he asked me to do this for him without payment. [6]. Wikishovel (talk) 07:32, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• These are   Unrelated to each other, and to Anne Barrington; I thought it might have something to do with Bodiadub, but they appear   Unrelated to that case as well. Probably a COI/MEAT situation. Spicy (talk) 14:23, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Closing without action Vanjagenije (talk) 23:22, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]