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Both editors arrive almost at the same time (3 years ago) & both have !voted in the same AFD’s & edited the same articles. I would start with the AFD’s In this diff an article titled Crywank is created by Lewishhh & in this diff it is sent to AFD by Discospinster. Now we observe Yealdgate !voting a keep as seen here. In this AFD also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fresh (band) we can observe both editors voting a keep as seen here & here. Also in this third AFD as seen here:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Feature (band) they both !vote a keep & provide eerie similar rationales, See rationale by Lewishhh & compare with rationale by Yealdgate They also share an extensive history in editing similar articles & suspicious behavior as can be seen here where Lewishhh creates an article titled Get Better Records, moments later Netherzone puts a notability tag on the article & in this diff we observe Yealdgate suspiciously removing the Notability tag from the article. The diffs to substantiate my suspicion goes on & on but I believe the aforementioned ones are enough to prove a pattern of behavior from both editors if this is not sockpuppetry (which I believe it is, then this is meat puppetry) Can the duck test also be used here? Celestina007 11:31, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Update — It would appear as though Yealdgate suddenly stopped editing after the SPI was opened & interestingly enough it appears that Lewishhh has seen the message sent generously by GeneralNotability but has chosen not to respond or defend himself/herself as the message was sent on the 3rd of September & I can observe him/her editing here which is on the 6th, hence it is plausible they saw & ignored it. Celestina007 10:08, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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•  On hold - They do have a huge amount of overlap both at and outside of AfD...but to what end? I suspect these are two separate people who know each other. I'm going to notify them both of this SPI, let's see what they have to say. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:04, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  GeneralNotability, It doesn't look like you're going to get the response you hoped for, so would you be OK with me dropping uw-agf-sock on both of them and closing this? At worst, they really are the same person, have gotten the message, and have stopped using both accounts. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:50, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  RoySmith, works for me. GeneralNotability (talk) 14:51, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

•  Clerk note: uw-agf-sock x2, closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:54, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]