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Both accounts were used exclusively for creating the page Draft:Burnaby Lake Rowing Club. User abandoned original account Team BLRC after User:LaMona reported him for COI, and created sock User:Round4figure. He also states that he owns these two accounts. Tseung Kwan O (talk) 23:28, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

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 * Comment I'm pretty sure CLEANSTART allows for this exact activity: "Team BLRC" was an unacceptable username, the user created the new account Round4figure, and stated their previous affiliation on their user page. Provided that Round4figure does not edit again with their previous account, there is no foul play here. Recommend closing this SPI. Primefac (talk) 04:46, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Dear Wikipedia,

In February 2016, I created a Wikipedia account with intention of writing about the sport of rowing in Canada. For my account I used name "Team BLRC" because I collected materials about rowing on the Burnaby Lake, and I wanted my first article to be about a rowing club from the lake. I submitted the draft article and Wikipedia editor LaMona advised the following: $ citation start

06:58:27, 14 February 2016 review of submission by Team BLRC[edit] Team BLRC (talk · contribs) Draft:Burnaby Lake Rowing Club (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi LaMona, I added two additional references, including a citation from a national engineering magazine in Canada. My first reference is to an article from the Vancouver Sun which does not have a public http link. I originally included the link to the printed article in the City of Burnaby Archives.

Hello, Team BLRC. As I said before, you are in violation of the username policy and may NOT continue to edit using this name. Go change the name immediately, because you will be blocked from editing and the article may be deleted. This is serious and you must do it. If you have made changes to the article you can resubmit, but only after having made the name change. Please look on the talk page of your user account. Also note that anyone with a conflict of interest is not allowed to make further changes to the article once it exits draft space. Conflict of interest is also taken seriously here. LaMona (talk) 16:21, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi LaMona, do you mean that I should delete my current account and create a new account with different user name? If I delete my account what will happen with the draft article? I thought it would be fine to edit the article, sorry about that. It says 'You are encouraged to make improvements by clicking on the "Edit" tab at the top of this page.'

Thank you, Team BLRC Team BLRC (talk) 07:23, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

You can create a new name and use it, abandoning the old one. Edits done under the old name will not show up on your account, but you have only edited that one page, so it shouldn't matter. You should put on your user page under the new name that you once edited under the name Team BLRC but are no longer doing so. The other issue is your conflict of interest. You are clearly associated with the organization whose article you are creating. You must make the appropriate declarations, as found in WP:DISCLOSE. And, as I say above, anyone with a conflict of interest should not make changes to the article once it is no longer a draft. LaMona (talk) 15:42, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

$ citation end Hence, I deleted the Wikipedia account Team BLRC and created a new user name Round4figure. I added a COI declaration upon an editor advice on 04:02:04, 21 February 2016. I stated this in my account https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Round4figure "User:Round4figure From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I once edited under the name Team BLRC but I am no longer doing so."

I continued to edit the article under name Round4figure. On 23:19, 8 July 2016, Wikipedia editor Tseung Kwan O, rejected the article submission, and opened a Sockpuppet investigation.

I am providing you with the chronology of events so that you can judge if intentional misnomer has been done.

Sincerely,

Round4figure

Round4figure (talk) 07:42, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Nothing WP:ILLEGIT. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  13:11, 28 July 2016 (UTC)