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David Cote
Articles about a filmmaker called "David Cote" have been repeatedly recreated on Wikipedia, with deliberate, concerted attempts to circumvent policies and guidelines. The latest is.


 * Background

David Cote (film director) was created in October 2010, and deleted following an AfD.

The discussion, Articles for deletion/David Cote (film director), was affected by numerous sockpuppets (Sockpuppet investigations/NickSoroka/Archive) and manipulated in other ways, e.g. a) edited the article removing display of the deletion notice  and b) moved the AfD page changing the word deLetion (with an L for Lima) to deIetion (with an I for India).



The article has been repeatedly recreated under different names, by various (now confirmed) socks;
 * Dave Cote
 * David Cote (Actor)
 * Cote, David
 * Overwriting David_Cote_(writer)

Various articles for creation have been declined, including Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Dave Cote.


 * Feb-March 2011

M. David Cote was created by on 10 Feb.

It has also been edited by here and IP  here. That IP has also added links on other pages, e.g.. The same IP also had a single post in 2010 at Articles for deletion/David Cote (film director).


 * appears to be an SPA (one edit to this article) and is a violation of WP:Username policy.
 * appears to be a SPA (only edits to this article).
 * IP has only one edit within the past three years and that is to this article.
 * IP has only one edit within the past three years and that is to this article.


 * Actions

Please assess and take whatever action necessary; as it may involve blocking, reverting edits, deleting the page (or is AfD necessary?), protecting creation?, SPI/checkuser action, etc. I bring it to ANI, to keep things in one place.  Chzz  ► 18:30, 20 March 2011 (UTC)