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The history of Nicholas C. Rowley is: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nicholas_C._Rowley&action=history The logs show that an article on this trial lawyer was previously deleted twice, most recently on 13 June 2017.

The article was originally created by Speedeomon88, a new account which has made three edits, one of which was inaccurate anyway. The record of that account is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Speedeomon88

The article was then tagged for speedy deletion as spam. The tag was removed by BME917, and was removed again by BME917. The contribution history of BME917 is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/BME917 The contribution history shows that BME917 is an on-again-off-again account specializing in lawyers and businesspeople. This behavior is characteristic of paid editors.

The reason why Speedeomon88 created the Nicholas C. Rowley account is so that, if it was tagged for speedy deletion, BME917 could untag it (and has done this twice).

The contribution history also shows that both BME917 and Speedeomon88 have made the same deprecated edit to Northbrook, Illinois to insert “affluent”. Quack. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:04, 18 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Note: Nicholas C. Rowley has been tagged for speedy deletion as copyvio, so that an administrator may need to verify the behavioral evidence if the article is deleted.  Robert McClenon (talk) 04:39, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  23:59, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 07:55, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocking master 72 hours and indeffing sock with tag. Also noting older account which appeared to have been abandoned before the current account was used. Closing.