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David Cote

Articles about a filmmaker called "David Cote" have been repeatedly recreated on Wikipedia, with deliberate, concerted attempts to circumvent policies and guidelines. The latest is M. David Cote (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views).

Background

David Cote (film director) was created in October 2010, and deleted following an AfD.

The discussion, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Cote (film director), was affected by numerous sockpuppets (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/NickSoroka/Archive) and manipulated in other ways, e.g. NickSoroka (talk · contribs) a) edited the article removing display of the deletion notice [1] and b) moved the AfD page changing the word deLetion (with an L for Lima) to deIetion (with an I for India) [2].

• NickSoroka (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · logs · block log · arb · rfc · lta · SPI · cuwiki)

The article has been repeatedly recreated under different names, by various (now confirmed) socks;

• Dave Cote
• David Cote (Actor)
• Cote, David
• Overwriting David_Cote_(writer) [3]

Various articles for creation have been declined, including Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Dave Cote.

Feb-March 2011

M. David Cote was created by JulieLeon80 (talk · contribs) on 10 Feb [4].

It has also been edited by Davecotefilm (talk · contribs) here and IP 70.69.60.99 (talk · contribs) here. That IP has also added links on other pages, e.g. [5] [6] [7]. The same IP also had a single post in 2010 at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Cote (film director) [8].

• Davecotefilm (talk · contribs) appears to be an SPA (one edit to this article) and is a violation of WP:Username policy.
• JulieLeon80 (talk · contribs) appears to be a SPA (only edits to this article).
• IP 154.5.190.200 (talk · contribs) has only one edit within the past three years and that is to this article.
• IP 24.82.162.63 (talk · contribs) has only one edit within the past three years and that is to this article.

Actions

Please assess and take whatever action necessary; as it may involve blocking, reverting edits, deleting the page (or is AfD necessary?), protecting creation?, SPI/checkuser action, etc. I bring it to ANI, to keep things in one place.  Chzz  ►  18:30, 20 March 2011 (UTC)