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The KnewtonSoft account was created and immediately created the article Starling Software on 2 March diff 1. The company is an IT company founded last year with less than 5 employees and no significant coverage in the sources provided. I initially removed two references which did not even mention the company, as well as adding maintenance tags around notability and third party sources. KnewtonSoft removed the maintenance tags multiple times without explanation or improvement e.g. Diff 2 and I warned Diff 3 for doing so. On 8 March, KnewtonSoft again removed (hid) the tags Diff 4. After I reverted, the Pieman102 account was created and one minute later removed the tags Diff 5, asking on the talk page for notability to be demonstrated by another article linking to this one Diff 6. KnewtonSoft then added a link from the article Cambridge Judge Business School Diff 7 and responded on the talk page that there are other "links" such as the one added (which is the only one) Diff 8. KnewtonSoft then removed then orphan tag and then the notability tag with the edit summary "removing unnecessary image" Diff 9. The next day, LaSinga was created, making her/his first edit one minute later to the talk page to 'agree' that notability had been established Diff 10 and again removing the maintenance tag Diff 11. I asked for an explanation as to how WP:NCORP had been met Diff 12. AdamJones201 was then created and made his/her first edit four minutes later which was also to the talk page to 'agree' that notability had been established Diff 13 and then to remove the maintenance tag from the article. Diff 14. Sounds like WP:DUCKs to me. Melcous (talk) 09:24, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * Blocked and tagged.
 * Pieman102 is apparently ❌.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:21, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  18:38, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged.
 * Pieman102 is apparently ❌.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:21, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  18:38, 18 March 2017 (UTC)