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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Cheers, atque supra! Fakescientist800011:21, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Fakescientist8000: Before nominating any page for speedy deletion you should check the page history to see whether there's an acceptable version to revert to. That is particularly important in the case of a user talk page, because barring very exceptional circumstances a user talk page can't be deleted if its history has any valid content at all. JBW (talk) 12:29, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Jamie. I would say that water is pouring off this one's back in torrents.
The article you mention is more than just rather similar to its earlier incarnation; there is a substantial amount of text which is identical, to an extent that would be impossible unless the new account had access to a copy of the old version. Of course that is sometimes because there's a copy on some Wikipedia mirror, but I googled several quotes that are common to both versions, and got no hits from any of them. That alone would be enough to make me pretty damned certain that this is a new sockpuppet, but...
... I also checked the editing histories of the various sockpuppets for other evidence, and found some more similarities, none of them big enough individually to be convincing, but added together they are an unlikely collection of coincidences. For example, there's this edit from known sock CaitlynKozaaa, and this one from Khenzansi Ndhlovu. In a way you could say that doesn't add much to the fact that they both created the same article, but not every editor would do that, and most new editors wouldn't even know how to. Then there's replacing "English" with "British", and other little details.
@Skywatcher68: I've commented on the COI noticeboard. It is clear, both from the talk page and from the editing history of the article, that the editor is acting against consensus, so reverting their editing would seem reasonable. It will be worth keeping an eye on the account's editing. JBW (talk) 21:05, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Skywatcher68: I've now looked further into the history of this, and it's been going on at least since 2006. I'm thinking of creating an LTA page about it. I'll let you know if I do. (Perhaps it should be called an XLTA page.) JBW (talk) 16:36, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I may have misclicked and put G3 hoax instead of G3 vandalism. The long story short is that someone other than the user created the user page without consulting with the person whose user page it is. They’ve edited a few other’s user pages today without permission. Could you look at it again and decide if anything should be done about that? CountryANDWestern (talk) 15:10, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@CountryANDWestern: I did think it strange that anyone would regard it as a hoax, 🤔 but it makes sense now that you've explained it. 💡 I think it's borderline for being regarded as vandalism, but it's obviously an unsuitable page, so I've accepted your vandalism speedy nomination. I'll check the rest of the editing history of the person who created it. JBW (talk) 15:27, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the follow up. Think we may have a CIR situation with the one who created the user page based on the edits here and on Simple where their edits brought me here to see if they were making similar ones. CountryANDWestern (talk) 15:30, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You rejected my article on the subject Bryan Wynbrandt but I have now provided live links and he's been covered in multiple publications from the ny post, newsweek, variety, the hollywood reporter, the cleveland plain dealer and won a humanitas prize. can you please take a look at these new links as per the wikipedia guidelines the subject clearly meets the requirements for inclusion. Katiebug2323 (talk) 18:51, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@K6ka: I have encountered this claim that you can't have more than one account with the same email address before, but I don't know where it comes from. I have the same email address set for both JBW and JBW3, and many years ago, as documented on my user page, I had several accounts, all with the same email address. I have just now sent test emails from JBW to JBW3 and from JBW3 to JBW to check, and both of them were successfully delivered to the same email account. JBW (talk) 14:11, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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