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Girth Summit: regarding your question below to TBOTNL, not meaning to put words in TBOTNL's mouth, but LillyEnd1937 was likely spamblocked for activity related to the
Lilly Endowment (founded 1937), as a Google search for "Lilly Endowment" along with either "Charles Venable" or "Martin Webb" (or both) turns up some interesting connections.
OK - I've blocked the confirmed accounts. Two were clearly created by the same person to improperly influence the discussion; LillyEnd1937 was created by Martinwebb after they had been warned about COI issues, and was used to edit the same article they had been warned about. I would be surprised if the non-confirmed accounts had not been canvassed to the AfD discussion in some way, but the closer will take that into account. Slothstalk may well be related, but since they haven't edited in nearly ten years I don't see any point in blocking. Closing.
GirthSummit (blether)10:18, 31 May 2022 (UTC)reply
The CU data says Unrelated or at best, Unlikely. I agree that it's almost certain that the AfD was tainted by canvassing and/or socking, but given that it has been closed, it seems pointless (and contrary to
WP:BLOCKP) to continue to invest electrons on this. --
RoySmith(talk)14:44, 5 June 2022 (UTC)reply
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Girth Summit: regarding your question below to TBOTNL, not meaning to put words in TBOTNL's mouth, but LillyEnd1937 was likely spamblocked for activity related to the
Lilly Endowment (founded 1937), as a Google search for "Lilly Endowment" along with either "Charles Venable" or "Martin Webb" (or both) turns up some interesting connections.
OK - I've blocked the confirmed accounts. Two were clearly created by the same person to improperly influence the discussion; LillyEnd1937 was created by Martinwebb after they had been warned about COI issues, and was used to edit the same article they had been warned about. I would be surprised if the non-confirmed accounts had not been canvassed to the AfD discussion in some way, but the closer will take that into account. Slothstalk may well be related, but since they haven't edited in nearly ten years I don't see any point in blocking. Closing.
GirthSummit (blether)10:18, 31 May 2022 (UTC)reply
The CU data says Unrelated or at best, Unlikely. I agree that it's almost certain that the AfD was tainted by canvassing and/or socking, but given that it has been closed, it seems pointless (and contrary to
WP:BLOCKP) to continue to invest electrons on this. --
RoySmith(talk)14:44, 5 June 2022 (UTC)reply