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Series of editors whose only Wikipedia contributions have involved the article about former Washington state legislator Brendan Williams. Some of the names I've listed here are further back in the history and I accept that they may be too stale to investigate, but I'm including them just as a matter of record (particularly because of the recurring "Poli-job" trope) — the much bigger and more immediate concern is Polieditor, Nopetynopenope and Olympiaattorney, who have all been directly involved in an edit war within the past month, trying to bury recent allegations of sexual harassment against Williams by either removing them from the article or trying to get the article deleted outright under false pretenses. Bearcat (talk) 20:55, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

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 * Polieditor and Olympiaattorney are . Nopetynopenope is ❌. The other accounts are . Blocked Polieditor and Olympiaattorney without tags.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:12, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Nopetynopenope actually removes negative content about the accuser, while Polieditor is focused on removing the allegations entirely, so I'm satisfied these are different people. There's no reason to take action against the stale accounts, so closing. Sro23 (talk) 22:56, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

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He have the usual "Pol" letters associated with the above socks, but more importantly he is also here to get Brendan Williams article deleted by what ever means. His first and only edit on 13 December was to revert DGG who closed the earlier suspicious AfD as Keep. He was reverted, but come back on 16 December and revert again insisting Brendan is not public figure and must be deleted. He then went and write this on his talkpage, repeating words of blocked sock, that Brendan is no longer a public figure. Then perhaps, he thought, if they failed to get the article deleted let every other former members of representative also have sexual allegation in their articles and edited this. Although, the source is New York Times, I nonetheless reverted him because the article is stub with only lead section and infobox and too short to contain such information except if that's the only essence of the article. –Ammarpad (talk) 17:51, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

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✅ to. Blocked and closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:26, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

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Obvious sock, but Check user may find more accounts. He have his usual identifier "Pol" letters and his first edit is the usual article. As I am typing this, I got notification he reverted me here, which is one of the mess of the earlier sock that I removed. –Ammarpad (talk) 22:13, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

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Blocked and tagged as obvious. No need to run a CU. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:33, 7 January 2018 (UTC)