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I got involved after Avaya1 posted on my talk page asking for assistance. Avaya1 suspected COI (and sockpuppetry) regarding the now deleted Articles for deletion/Steven Strauss. NYC.Geek also posted on my TP, and Avaya1 asked for help again..


 * Shiva.TheDeleter / NYC.Geek editing/tagging/AFDing articles created by Avaya1:
 * 1) Shiva.TheDeleter is newly created account with 30 edits, 20 of which are on articles created by Avaya1 Avaya1 / Shiva.TheDeleter editor interaction, 15 intersect with NYC.Geek . The other contribution of note - Adrian Benepe is a NYC administration figure. Their 3 sandbox edits are also interesting - they copy comments by Avaya (a month prior to account creation) and myself (from the AfD - diff - in which they did not participate).
 * 2) Concurrent and after to the deletion of Strauss, both NYC.Geek and Shiva.TheDeleter - start querying for notability, COI, and in one case putting up for AfD articles created by Avaya1 - very obscure articles (while May Golan (recently elected) has been in the news, Shlomit Malka, Anna Zak, Neta Alchimister, Dorit Revelis, Tanya Pylavets are all young Israeli fashion model with mainly Hebrew coverage).
 * 3) On Zak and Golan both NYC.Geek and Shiva.TheDeleter were active, the rest they were active separately. The pattern of activity on articles created by Avaya1 is similar.
 * 4) Thus NYC.Geek tag notability and queries notability on the talk page of Dorit Revelis, tags COI, notability, and opens a TP section on Tanya Pylavets.
 * 5) Shiva.TheDeleter likewise tags notability and starts a TP section on Neta Alchimister as well as tagging notability on May Golan.
 * 6) Both also modify articles (e.g. removing unsourced info), e.g. on Anna Zak they intersect with Shiva.TheDeleter removing a header, and NYC.Geek a few days later removing a claim the subject is famous.
 * 7) Opening talk page sections titled "Is this person(al) notable?", using similar arguments. Shiva.TheDeleter:  NYC.Geek:
 * 8) Similar line of argument regarding Hebrew sources and notability:  NYC.Geek:, Shiva.TheDeleter:

The possible connection to I.new.around.here (who stresses they are new) is weaker - and based on similar arguments on the now deleted Steven Strauss and similarities below. User:jpgordon on COI/N also wondered about a possible connection to NYC.Geek - diff. The connection to Bene.Nota (who also stresses they are new - yet their 4th edit is starting an AfD - ) is via joint interest and POV slant in NYC administration figures Rachel Haot and Rohit Aggarwala (which Bene.Note put up for AfD). The trigger for this report was the similar editing by NYC.Geek and Shiva.TheDeleter on articles created by Avaya1.
 * other users - I.new.around.here and Bene.Nota


 * General Common behavior and observations:
 * 1) Use of "deleted" (in lieu of "removed", "erased", "redacted", etc.): Shiva.TheDeleter: . I.new.around.here: . Bene.Nota:, NYC.Geek:
 * 2) Use of "peacockery" (in lieu or addition to "puffery"):  I.new.around.here: . NYC.Geek: . Shiva.TheDeleter:
 * 3) Similar user name morphology.
 * 4) The initial edits by Shiva.TheDeleter, Bene.Nota, I.new.around.here do not seem to be those of a new editor (despite professing otherwise).
 * 5) Rohit Aggarwala has 86 edits and 26 editors - prior to the AfD 10-20 views a day. This is a NYC official from the Bloomberg era. Both Bene.Nota and NYC.Geek (with 23 edits to the article) edited this quite a bit, attempting to remove positive information. NYC.Geek tagged for notability, and Bene.Nota  put up for AfD.
 * 6) Similar formatting between this COI post by I.new.around.here and these user talk posts  by NYC.Geek.
 * 7) Common interest in NYC administration figures (from around the Bloomberg era). Icewhiz (talk) 14:15, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * , who interacted much more with the set here, to add additional evidence/observations in section below. See User talk:Icewhiz for Avaya1's line of reasoning (NYC.Geek / Shiva.TheDeleter particularly convinced me). Icewhiz (talk) 14:17, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

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 * ✅ Accounts are technically indistinguishable. --jpgordon&#x1d122;&#x1d106; &#x1D110;&#x1d107; 14:52, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * . Closing. The SandDoctor  Talk 16:24, 14 April 2019 (UTC)