User talk:98.197.112.171

Cambridge University Study
Dear user with the IP- address 98.197.112.171,

I just saw your post on the Max7488 socket puppet investigation page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Max7488/Archive) and wanted to apologise for the confusion in which you were wrongly accused for socket puppetry. I tried to comment on the socket puppet page to reveal that I was responsible for all the edits, but was prevented from doing so.

The edits were made as part of a field experiment for a Cambridge University study. The field experiment aimed to explore the extent to which there is a bias on the Wikipedia pages of the most polluting public companies (measured in terms of combined scope 1 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions). It was designed after a similar study by Kalla and Aronow (2015) (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0136327).

As you were one of the editors who challenged a number of the edits I made, it would be very valuable for the study to talk to you in an interview that should last between 15 and 30 minutes. Your comments on the socket puppet investigation page were already very insightful and it would be interesting to hear in more detail why you wanted to contextualise the information. Further, I would appreciate hearing about your experiences as a Wikipedia editor in general and how you experienced the whole socket puppet investigation.

The interview has been approved by the Cambridge University Ethics Committee. In the study that will be published afterward, you can stay completely anonymous.

If you are interested, please contact me at WikipediaStudy@web.de. I am happy to answer any questions and send more information!

Best wishes, Vincent — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:630:212:DE0:A5EE:77D6:C06F:6CE3 (talk) 10:01, 18 March 2021 (UTC)