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created the article Infonomics, which is now subject to deletion. Ethansdad has claimed to be Doug Langley, the Gartner analysts who coined the term. Ethansdad editor was blocked following an ANI

Two editors with minimal additional contributions have commented on the PROD after EthanDad was blocked. Like ethandads, all have used the term “retain” instead of the more common “keep”.

In this edit, asked to retain the article.

In this edit also asked to keep the article. Note that Ydemontcheuil was amoung the SPAs that participated in Articles for deletion/Talend Billhpike (talk) 13:07, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

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 * had disclosed in the user draft that the account was linked to Philip Howard of Bloor Research. Either both Ethansdad and InfoPhil were impersonated some staff of "big data" industry, or they were really involved as some sort of COI. Either way, it may already broke some policy of wikipedia. Matthew_hk   t  c  17:16, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I am not anyone's sock puppet. Check me out on LinkedIn if you want: Yves de Montcheuil. I happen to know Doug Laney and Philip Howard (and they are real persons too) and to agree with their research. I don't know what this hiding being a proxy stuff is about but I travel often and connect through many different ISPs when I do. Ydemontcheuil (talk) 18:07, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
 * , don't you think it is suspicious that you are inactive in wikipedia for so long, suddenly found a way to a new Afd? Despite no one in that Afd to say "keep", that could be an excuse, but you just copy the usage of "Retain" by (aka the impersonator of Doug Laney). For the previous Afd you commented, you know the usage of word "keep" and it is the first one to use it. Even if you did not control the two other accounts as sock and sockmaster, it seem you was canvassed to the current Afd.  Matthew_hk   t  c  18:44, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, I realize I used an improper term, that's because someone else did before me. As you pointed out my last contribution was several years ago. Call it suspicious, illegitimate - whatever. It seems every time someone wants to offer something useful but is not part of the system, the system finds a way to crush that contribution. Well, on certain topics, there are few experts and they know each other in the real life (outside wikipedia). Call that canvassing if you like... Ydemontcheuil (talk) 11:14, 21 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Apparently it is suspicious that I used the word "retain" rather than "keep". Well, this is the first time I have tried to make a comment on Wikipedia and I saw the other comments, several of which said "retain" and none of which said "keep" (that I noticed) - so I just followed what appeared to be standard practice. I had no idea "keep" was the more common term. If you seriously think that I am the same person as Yves or Doug then go the Bloor Research web site and contact me directly via email and I'll call you. What you will get is a British accent and not the French that is Yves', nor Doug's American. Alternatively you can wait until I publish a blog about how unwelcoming Wikipedia makes it for new contributors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by InfoPhil (talk • contribs) 09:58, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Though, I am not SPI clerk, I moved InfoPhil's comment which he misplaced below check user's comment area. And would like to remind both and  this place is not for discussion. Already Checkuser has given his result, that they are unrelated. I hope you can talk any other thing on talkpages, pending archiving of this place by clerk. –Ammarpad (talk) 10:28, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Ethansdad and InfoPhil are ❌. Ydemontcheuil is /. The user is hiding behind a proxy.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:53, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Closing with no action. Sro23 (talk) 01:10, 22 December 2017 (UTC)