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There is a wider problem beneath this. Looking at the global contributions of both the named accounts and the IPs, I see that they are targeting an increasing number of Wikis in other languages, mostly rather small languages where they may go unnoticed, but they are also trying to disrupt Commons and Wikidata. I am not familiar with the workings of global Wiki, so any help with or advice about how to report this globally would be appreciated. Regards! --[[User:TU-nor|T*U]] ([[User talk:TU-nor|talk]]) 19:35, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
== Undisclosed Paid Editing by Nnadigoodluck ==
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I was going to leave this until the ongoing RFA was complete but I figured this was quite urgent and needed addressing.
The editor Nnadigoodluck were first nabbed by {{u|Yunshui}} in 2019, where Nnadigoodluck was advertising their Wiki-services on Twitter, in a tweet that was swiftly deleted and Yunshui immediately revoked their Autopatrol rights for possible paid editing see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%3ARedirect%2Flogid%2F103875666 here] and their Autopatrol rights revoked. It was later reinstated by {{u|Rosguill}} who assumed good faith two months after.
Fast forward to yesterday when @{{u|DGG}} nominated one of their most recent articles for deletion see [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jennifer_Etito&oldid=1026591767 here]. I was pinged to discussion by {{u|Alexandermcnabb}} to nudge an investigation into possible undisclosed paid editing and whilst I found the ping to be mischievous, it turned out to be of great help to the collaborative project. Immediately digging into the history of this editor, i immediately discovered this article: [[Alex Nwankwo]] which had the image in it as his “own work” After leaving UPE template warnings on their userpage, which I should not have done since they were an experienced editor here.
I decided to sort this out by discussing this with them not as a robot but as person to person, i went to their tp to ask how they obtained the image, they implied that it was in an award ceremony and by chance they took a picture of him see [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1026903906?diffmode=source here], I found it to be too convenient but was fairly okay with the response, but then again I came across the article on a non notable businessman; [[Godwin Maduka]] with the image in it as it’s “own work” this time it was a major red flag as the picture was shot/taken up close, they again implied that it was a “by chance photo” at this point, I know this is covert upe. I do a thorough digging and I uncovered a mixture of creating good articles and including UPE articles every now and again.
I unearthed a plethora of articles on very non notable “businessmen” “Entrepreneurs” “Philanthropists” most of which are currently at AFD with delete !votes. See [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspower_Oshodin here], [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin_Maduka here] [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Okonkwo here] and [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Olakunle_Jamiu_Azeez here] for example, there are a plethora I’m still unearthing.
Their two most recent articles where so dubious, @{{u|DGG}} had to come [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Celestina007?markasread=219782915&markasreadwiki=enwiki#notability_%3F confirm] the notability status of the articles of which I frankly told them that both articles were non notable possible covert UPE written by a brilliant editor who knew the art of [[WP:ADMASQ]]'ing.
For full transparency I have suspected them of UPE in the past and shared my concerns with {{u|Drmies}} and {{u|MER-C}} but chiefly hadn’t acted because I have been in and out of hospitals.
It is either they are not competent enough as per notability(GNG) policy wise, to hold '''Autopatrol''' rights or they are engaging in undisclosed paid editing of which they should be indefinitely blocked for either way they aren’t eligible to hold Autopatrol and by extension should not hold NPR rights.
During our discussion they made a blunder by going “off topic”(classic deflection technique) and said I had an agenda to chase away Nigerian editors, which wasn’t true because I am a Nigerian and secondly is a brazen lie. This is me [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1026912556?diffmode=source yesterday] literally begging an editor to join [[WP:NIGERIA]].
Nnadigoodluck has asked me not to ping them ever again and I have respected that.
Lastly perhaps a lexical error on their part, [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1026911167?diffmode=source here] they say they have “{{green|tolerated me all these years}} which I find rather strange, perhaps just an error or an indication of a prior account. Should a Checkuser be optimized? Perhaps unnecessary, why I think they can’t hold the Autopatrol rights and should be removed is not necessarily because they are on non notable persons but because they are ''Promotional'' in nature, so what we have here is an editor with Autopatrol who promotes articles for non notable businessmen, had {{u|DGG}} not put it upon himself to patrol the works of editors with Autopatrol we would have a covert UPE editor roaming free.
I am hereby proposing both the immediate removal of their Autopatrol rights and NPR rights, because if you can’t yourself tell promotional non notable from notable you shouldn’t be patrolling the works of other or an IBAN in creating BLP’s. '''[[User:Celestina007|Celestina007]]''' ([[User talk:Celestina007|talk]]) 23:09, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
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