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The page David Bowles (Author) was nominated for deletion via AFD due to debatable notability of the subject. The page is currently the subject of an edit war apparently relating back to comments made by the subject on Twitter. User amycummins is a close professional colleague of the article's subject and is currently engaged in the edit war on the page (see 1 and 2 as well as the following diffs 3 and 4. In violation of WP:COI, the user has been the only editor besides bots and category updaters to work on the page since February 2019. Once this COI violation was pointed out in the AFD, here Articles_for_deletion/David_Bowles_(author), the user has not made any additional edits to the subject article. However, in her place numerous users without prior edit histories or who had previously been inactive for a number of years emerged to both comment on the AFD (see: 5, 6, and7. Additionally, user RGVLiterature, the creator of the page in question, appears to be the subject of the page himself (a previous version of the article included promotional information such as the author's agent see diff 8. He may be controlling all or some of the accounts in question.MichiganCharms (talk) 01:05, 4 December 2020 (UTC) MichiganCharms (talk) 01:05, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - apparent votestacking at AfD. I am not particularly confident in RGVLiterature's relation, but the rest are pretty socky. Please also have a look at, brand-new account who is also puffing up the page in question. If not socks, suspect off-wiki coordination (perhaps someone is a-Twitter about this page's deletion) GeneralNotability (talk) 01:18, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Amycummins, Simonbean101, Carolinepritchard, Libiabrenda, Johnjnevins, and DrCSRhodes are ❌. RGVLiterature was not checked. KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 01:44, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Off-wiki canvassing it is. I'll leave them unblocked for the time being since they're not being outright disruptive and the AfD's closing admin should recognize them as SPAs. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 14:51, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

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appears to have the longest history of all the accounts in relation to David Bowles (author). are single purpose accounts recently created and almost immediately !voting at an AfD regarding the same author. was the first to !vote keep, with another 'keep' quickly following by in their first edit in months,  with  also returning from a hiatus specifically to !vote for keep  (although this is perhaps less unusual with 366 edits since 2015). Overall, are new single-purpose accounts and are almost certainly linked,  has been editing heavily in relation to David Bowles since being created in January 2019, and  each return from hiatuses of several months in order to !vote in this specific AfD... I don't buy it. Jack Frost (talk) 13:21, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * - To confirm any link between the given accounts, particularly in relation to . --Jack Frost (talk) 13:41, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Balls. I thought that Twinkle flagged if there had been a previous SPI, however that is clearly not the case. I note that this was reported to SPI and a checkuser was run on a number of the accounts on 4 December, with no link found. Given this, and the assessment of clerk at the time; it would seem reasonable for this to be closed with no further action. Apologies. Jack Frost (talk) 13:52, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Closing - as noted by filer, all of these (except BarryNorton) have been checked before and were found ❌. My suspicion is off-wiki canvassing, but as long as they're not being disruptive, I don't see an immediate need to block. GeneralNotability (talk) 13:58, 9 December 2020 (UTC)