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Four accounts sharing a common and exclusive promotional interest in Setsunan University, three of them with "Setsunan" as part of the username (if Google translate is right about how to read 摂南太郎, that is). Not clear to me whether this is socking or meating, but it seems to be one of the two. CU requested in the hope of clarification. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:30, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

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Hello. Sorry I have no idea what sockpuppet is. We work for the same office who is trying to get things right for the description of our university. The first three account users, all from the same office, the changes they made to the page were reverted and they didn’t know what to do. So another staff member tried to edit the page by creating a new account, and then the next, and now me, Setsunan Taro. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Setsunan Taro (talk • contribs) 23:40, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

@Tazmin Shall I ask the other account holders to close their accounts? I am new to editing on Wiki, and since I noticed that the edits made by previous accounts were deemed “too promotional”, I spent hours making the last edit (which could not be reverted anymore) without promotional contents, and my edits were removed/reverted without a proper reason. I sent a message to Justlettetandnumbers to ask why he/she reverted my changes, but I didn’t get a response. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Setsunan Taro (talk • contribs) 23:44, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I will tell my office about this and be sure to avoid tag team editing from now on.
 * Sorry I read the conflict of interest page but couldn’t quite understand how my last edit is related to it. Is it because I did not declare that the edits were made by a staff of the institution? I’ll read it again now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Setsunan Taro (talk • contribs) 23:53, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * , there's not much that CU can give you here. and  both geolocate to the same country, but they're using different networks. The other two accounts are stale. Sorry I can't be more help.   Girth Summit  (blether)  20:58, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Two notes: 1) User:Setsunan University has been softblocked for a username violation. 2) See ongoing discussion started by Justlettersandnumbers at User talk:Setsunan Taro. I'm going to mark this pending an answer to my follow-up question there. I doubt anyone's getting blocked here (at least not for socking), but their answer will influence whether any warnings are in order.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 19:28, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
 * @Tamzin I'm guessing if you haven't gotten an answer yet, you're not going to. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:32, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the ping, Roy. Well, they haven't edited since I left that query, and they've given a good-faith explanation for what's going on. I will close as follows I see that neither of you is currently active, but if you return to editing, please understand that it is not acceptable to engage in edit-warring (even slow-moving edit-warring on the timescale of months) to restore content added by people you work with. If you do so again, or if a new account appears and does so, this will be treated as sockpuppetry regardless of how many people control the accounts in question. Please also read our guidelines on conflict-of-interest editing (simplified guide). I will leave a copy of this warning on your user talk pages to make sure you see it. Closing as warned.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 23:16, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Understood. Do you understand that this is something no one from your office should do again? Have you read the guidelines you've been linked to about conflict-of-interest editing? If you have concerns about this article, you should address them on the article's talk page rather than reverting. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 23:45, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry, replied to your first message without seeing the second. To answer that, no, you don't need to ask anyone to close their accounts. Just make sure that if anyone else chooses to edit Wikipedia again, they understand these same conflict of interest guidelines, and especialyl make sure that no one engages in what we call "tag-team editing": one editor making an edit, and then a friend or colleague of their restoring it when it's reverted. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 23:47, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, you need to disclose your connection to the university. If the COI guideline is confusing you (which I do understand, it's not always the most straightforward document), you might want to check out the Plain and simple conflict of interest guide that I mentioned, which is a summary of it. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 01:00, 12 March 2022 (UTC)