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There has been unusual participation at Articles for deletion/Jack Carlson (rower) that suggests sockpuppetry. This is strong behavioral evidence of off-wiki coordination between Utraqueunum and Georgetownhoya (and maybe the IP), but what prompted Utraqueunum to return to Wikipedia after a long absence specifically to participate in a discussion of an article they have never edited, in a forum in which they have never participated? The answer may lie in the history of Jack Carlson (rower).
 * , who has never edited Jack Carlson (rower), returned from a three-year absence to make one edit, recommending that Carlson be kept. Utraqueunum has only made 83 edits, mostly periodic major edits to Edward W. Scott, and has never participated at AfD before. Utraque Unum, by the way, is the Latin motto of Georgetown University.
 * , an WP:SPA who until now has only ever edited Edward W. Scott, in their first edit in four months then also recommended that Carlson be kept. Hoyas is Georgetown University's athletic nickname.
 * 2A02:A210:2044:300:9876:F943:75E7:C2FB, who has no editing history, meanwhile also recommended "keep".

This is strong circumstantial evidence of undisclosed paid editing, although Cozyalley111 denies involvement, saying they were "quite shocked" that anyone thought they were paid, and that they are "just someone who has followed this subject's career for some time." I would like to believe them, but something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
 * , a WP:SPA, created Carlson with their second edit. For a new account, they showed remarkable familiarity with Wikipedia, producing in a single edit a well-formed article with 46 impeccably formatted references, an infobox, correctly piped links, categories, close compliance with the Manual of Style, etc. Their only other edits, the following week, were to create a disambigution page for the topic.
 * , another SPA, later added a studio portrait to Carlson. Green Room Creative is a New York City marketing agency that, until I commented on the fact in the AfD discussion, boasted Carlson's company, Rowing Blazers, as a client on their home page. In the five days since then, Green Room Creative has changed its home page, removing Rowing Blazers and replacing it with Traveling Spoon. Coincidence, or is someone in the company following the discussion?
 * , yet another SPA, in November 2017 made major updates to Carlson and started Draft:Rowing Blazers, about Carlson's company.
 * , not quite an SPA, has spent 11 of their 21 edits, spread out over seven different days spanning two months, to tweak Carlson and Draft:Rowing Blazers, to link to Carlson from other articles, and to argue at the AfD that Carlson be kept.

What connects the two groups is: -- Worldbruce (talk) 07:34, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * It's after Cozyalley111 recommended "keep" that Utraqueunum, the IP, and Georgetownhoya all added their voices to keep.
 * Among Cozyalley111's very few edits are ones to Georgetown Hoyas and Philodemic Society (a Georgetown University society).

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 * Ultraqueunum and Georgetownhoya are ✅ to each other.
 * Cozyalley111 and Hydropout are ✅ to each other but ❌ to the other two accounts.
 * Blocked all four accounts without tags. The remaining two accounts are .--Bbb23 (talk) 15:24, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I tagged the blocked accounts in two groups. Since everyone is either blocked or stale, It's time to close this.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  20:32, 11 January 2018 (UTC)