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The article at LaTour has a history of abusive SPA editing going back years. The account appears to be the subject of the article, who has complained several times about the other accounts being his former band mate who is hijacking the LaTour article to promote his own band and harass him,. That this has gone on for so long is unacceptable.

The hijacking began in 2009, with Americanmusics inserting spam links to myspace and other pages about The Squids. At some point, William LaTour began editing his own page (and nobody really explained to him at the time that this wasn't a good idea). An article for The Squids existed for a few years, edited almost exclusively by anon IPs and SPAs. After that article was AfDed (with a result of merge), the SPA editing transferred over to the LaTour article.

There's a long discussion at user talk:107.219.204.241 between the IP, LeslieCola and Dennis Brown, which was later blanked by User:Solomeo8812. Dennis blocked one of them at one point for edit warring.

As soon as the merger happened, LeslieCola began inserting unsourced, promotional material regarding The Squids to LaTour.

An IP editor CORRECTLY noted that all of this material was unsourced, and they were repeatedly and incorrectly reverted.

From this point on, the history is a repeated reversion between an IP and Mmmohhmmm (the article subject) on one hand and Solomeo8812 and LeslieCola on the other, , , and in February 2016, Clenup82 joins in.

I warned Solomeo8812 on their talk page for using LaTour for promotion, their response was to blank the warning and reinsert the unsourced Squids spam into LaTour.

It is obvious that the listed accounts are all colluding to spam this article with promotional unsourced language about this band The Squids. I've attempted to find ANY published information about this band, and found absolutely zero, except for a couple brief passing mentions, and a bunch of spam Google jacking stuff seemingly done by the band's former singer. According to William LaTour, this band "barely existed" and he was only a minor part of it. I'll also add that while the AfD ended as "merge", this doesn't mean we wholesale insert a massive amount of unsourced promotional language into another article. The Squids themselves have ZERO notability and the SPAs seem to want to try and change that by hijacking their former band member's article. The Master ---)Vote Saxon(--- 00:51, 20 January 2017 (UTC)


 * EDIT: I have been deleting related spam from multiple other articles. You might like to know that THIS is the kind of stuff that this person has been inserting all over Wikipedia for who knows how long. The Master ---)Vote Saxon(--- 06:13, 21 January 2017 (UTC)


 * EDIT: Additional evidence - The IP and two of the accounts also spammed Rock Me Tonite to insert information about their band, , . The Master ---)Vote Saxon(--- 06:21, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

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Only Solomeo8812 is not (it's also not the oldest account). CU declined.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:22, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Clenup82 has also edited recently. Could you run a check in light of ? King of  &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 06:09, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
 * The two accounts are ✅. Blocked without tags.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:18, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked all, closing. The older accounts are enough for WP:DUCK, I think. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 01:52, 22 January 2017 (UTC)