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An account that also intersects here is who created both Gaption and BEAM Connect, as well as a draft for the latter. He also shares a name with a co-founder of the two companies. I'm not naming him as a sock in this case because the account is both stale, and I also think he farmed out the work as explained below.

I've blocked Gaption as a spam only account for creating and spamming links to BEAM (Platform) today, as well as promotional editing on the deleted Gaption page.

Beamstart's only edits have been to the Beam page, the name is clearly tied to the company, and the users use similar edit summaries that are unique from the Wallace account, sharing things such as focusing on "inaccuracies" Beamstart, Gaption. None of these patterns were followed by Wallace

The distinction between the Wallace account and these two accounts suggest, as well as the recreation of BEAM (Platform), which uses different language and is written much more professionally and with marketing buzzwords that have the possibility of escaping our G11 definition suggest what happened here was that we had a startup founder who tried to write his own Wikipedia articles, and then hired a firm to maintain them later when his drafts weren't getting accepted. The firm uses names of the customer accounts to edit those pages.

I'm requesting a CU on this to check if there are an visible sleepers, because if the pattern above holds, there is a likelihood here that we have a bunch of different throwaway accounts for different companies. TonyBallioni (talk) 00:05, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:17, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * - TonyBallioni's theory is plausible, given the history of the articles. The only curious thing to me is that Wallace HZG's original submission of Gaption was accepted and was live for two years before dressed it up, and then it was deleted. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:41, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
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 * All users, closing the case. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:04, 10 November 2017 (UTC)