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How this first came about is I noticed that User:Pouyaaftabi had created a page about himself (see Pouya aftabi, I tagged it for speedy deletion for A7). I had also noticed that the User:NazaninSolo had contested speedy deletion on the talk page for the reason (see Special:Permalink/840286154, "This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... (This is an artist and should not be removed)." This made me suspicious that the 2 users were actually the same person, so I looked further into both of their contributions. For both of theirs, their only contributions to the wiki were about Pouya aftabi. User:Pouyaaftabi had created the Pouya aftabi page as well as their user talk page with the exact same content, and User:NazaninSolo created Draft:Pouya aftabi and was the one who contested the deletion. All of these happened within the same 3 days. I find it rather unlikely that this is just a coincidence, and I believe that Pouyaaftabi created the NazaninSolo to make it seem like several users supported keeping the Pouya aftabi page. SkyGazer 512 What will you say? / What did I do? 22:51, 8 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Oh, and I've looked into this further and have some more information. If you look at the history for Draft:Pouya aftabi, an article created by User:NazaninSolo, you'll notice that it was then submitted for review by User:Pouyaaftabi. Another possibility I thought of, after NazaninSolo posted a message on my talk page, is that maybe the two users aren't the same person, but are just friends who think it would be fun to make an article about one of themselves on Wikipedia.--SkyGazer 512 What will you say? / What did I do? 23:21, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

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 * - . Please block the master account for a few days, and the sock indefinitely. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:21, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Sock blocked indefinitely, master for a week. Closing. Favonian (talk) 14:46, 11 May 2018 (UTC)