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Self-identified editors edit
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Active, and disclosing edit
- CorporateM (talk) (disclosure)
- BC1278 talk
- WWB Too (talk) (disclosure)
- John Vandenberg (talk) (disclosure)
- Fbell74 (talk) (disclosure). He also has a profile at freelancer that lists several WP articles in his portfolio, some of them created with other usernames.
- User:Arturo at BP Self-identified BP employee.
- Mr RD (disclosure)
- Johanna Janhonen aka jjanhone (talk) (disclosure)
Not regularly disclosing paid edits edit
Editors no longer active edit
- Eclipsed (talk) (email) (disclosure) Account has been abandoned. The individual who used it is now editing as 1Wiki8Q5G7FviTHBac3dx8HhdNYwDVstR (talk). Was indefinitely blocked at own request in 2017.
- Joedesantis (talk) (disclosure) Communications Director, Newt Gingrich Campaign, 2012 (discussion). Last edited in 2012.
- Hilumeoka2000 (disclosure) Page deleted in 2015.
- Djhuff (disclosure). Last contrib in 2015.
- Savannah38 (disclosure). Last contrib in 2015.
- Alexwillis (disclosure) Last contrib in 2015.
- ChrisPond (disclosure) Last contrib in 2014.
- TGCJKS197276(disclosure) Last contrib in 2015
Editors who have been indefinitely blocked or banned edit
- Worthywords (disclosure) -- blocked for persistent direct promotional editing.
- Nmwalsh (disclosure) -- blocked for socking.
- User:AKonanykhin, Wexperts (& socks), Jeremy112233 (& socks) WikiExperts, community banned
- User:I'm Tony Ahn alt account User:Noraft (disclosure)
- User:KDS4444 (disclosure) - socking, community banned
Review edit
Entries reviewed; did not check to add any additional. Jytdog (talk) 19:52, 12 July 2017 (UTC)