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06 October 2012

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Chidieberenwaogu created the article Lagbook, about a social media company in Nigeria. It was deleted in February as blatant advertising. Chidi Nwaogu is the name of one of the company's founders and the user was warned about conflict of interest issues. Socialnerd popped up in May and his contributions have been exclusively dedicated to Lagbook and Chidi and Chika Nwaogu - including recreating the LAGBook article and creating the Chidi and Chika Nwaogu article, adding their names to List of Igbo people, University of Lagos, List of Nigerians and adding LAGBook to Template:Online social networking, Social media, and List of social networking websites. Socialnerd added a photo File:Lagbook_twins.jpg of Chidi and Chika that he claimed to have taken himself. User:McGeddon notes that the the name Socialnerd appears to be taken from a quote from one of the founders: ("My twin and I as at that time are what I called “SocialNerds”. We got good fashion sense, but we didn't have a social life."). Socialnerd claims that: "I took my username after I interviewed the twin brothers (founders) and they told me they love to call themselves social nerds. I just love the name myself and I decided to adopt it.", but I would note that on Socialnerd's user page he describes himself as "Am a social nerd - nerd with great fashion sense." This account is clearly being used for promotional purposes after a user was previously warned that he couldn't promote his company using his own name. GabrielF (talk) 08:04, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

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 * - Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 15:07, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Decline and closing. I don't see "abuse" since there is no overlap and the utility of changing accounts is dubious. First editor made article, it was deleted.  A few months later, another editor makes article.  Even if it was the same editor, 3 months passed.  Could be a friend, could have forgotten password, could be anything, but the multiple accounts, even if the same person, isn't being used to deceive or game the system. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 15:07, 6 October 2012 (UTC)