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514:& quacks like one it is probably a duck. Also notice how they all keep typing “keep & improve” rather than “Keep” only. If not sock puppetry then there’s a high probability that it is meat puppetry. My main concern is the wrong impact this actions may have on the outcome of this AFD. Using multiple accounts is a bad practice but using them to disrupt & ongoing AFD is even worse.
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620:: I created my account using an anagram of my social media username, gradualclearing. The Gradualclearing username already exists and my name, Sarah Horton, is the same as an existing article, so Sarahhorton was not allowed. I was inspired to create a Knowledge account to contribute to an article about a prominent figure in
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Celestina007 keeps thinking this is some conspiracy. I do not know why folks voted to Keep & Improve, aside from the fact that the article doesn't have enough references, particularly from media. Yes, I should have started the article as a Draft article, but I didn't. There was a
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This is almost funny. Celestina007 seems to have a grudge against me because I made a mistake when editing the article in question. Technically I could certainly do what I was accused of, I'm a web developer after all. That said, I'm also very open about who I am. You can find me using the @mgifford
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Someone in the global web accessibility community died. He affected many of us and so there was an effort to gather up what information that we could find to help acknowledge the impact he made in the field. This was all done publicly on
Twitter. Not sure that this would make someone a Sockpuppet
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this centers around, and without access to technical evidence, I did not really suspect sockpuppetry here. If anything untoward has happened here it seems at worst like some mention of the discussion was made off-wiki amongst people familiar with the subject, who then came to participate
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Sleeper accounts, SPA’s & Very new users have all sprung out from thin air to !vote keeps. My evidence are as follows, In the aforementioned AFD we find a sleeper account named
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as part of the clerk training process. Please allow him to process the entire case without interference, and pose any questions or concerns either on his Talk page or on this page if more appropriate.
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