Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/77willshop/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

FlowStack2022 added a statement to the OpenAI article stating that "The Matthew Brown Companies" were an investor in OpenAI, and also added an extra page link to the article (Special:Diff/1145819911, reverted at Special:Diff/1145823142).

30 minutes after this edit was reverted, the account 8989wallstreet was created. 8989wallstreet then, as their first edit, added "Matthew Brown Companies" as a founder of OpenAI, and also added an extra page link to the article (Special:Diff/1145825297). Shortly afterwards, 8989wallstreet added "The Matthew Brown Companies" as one of the developers of the Falcon 1 rocket (Special:Diff/1145826740).

75.63.169.51 has also made very similar edits promoting "The Matthew Brown Companies", including previously on the OpenAI article (Special:Diff/1129780261, Special:Diff/1129780477, Special:Diff/1135417134), on the Bob McNair article (Special:Diff/1145243864), on the Boom Technology article (Special:Diff/1145244469, and on the Virgin Orbit article (Special:Diff/1145367960). FlowStack2022's first edit was to the Virgin Orbit article, adding to a sentence about "The Matthew Brown Companies" that was originally added by 75.63.169.51 (Special:Diff/1145819544).

2603:8080:6B01:1A00:3817:8B78:D53C:D87D has also made an edit adding "local entrepreneur Matthew Brown" on the SpaceX article (Special:Diff/1104276171). 75.63.169.51's first edit was to the SpaceX article, adding to the sentence made by 2603:8080:6B01:1A00:3817:8B78:D53C:D87D's edit. (Special:Diff/1104423340).

This is my first time filing a sockpuppet investigation, and I wasn't 100% clear on what to do in the case where there are both several IPs and several registered accounts which may be the same user. Please let me know if there is anything eles I should add. Thanks. Wysholp 🧊 (talk) 07:10, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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It looks like they're vandalizing these articles, or at the very least disruptive editing. I think that these are, more likely than not, sockpuppets. It's probably just a troll. AugustusAudax (talk) 14:15, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - It looks like a duck, and WP:NOTHERE. Please, indef the accounts. Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 16:47, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Both of the accounts listed (FlowStack2022 ad 8989wallstreett) are confirmed to one another, and to, the oldest account, the author of Draft:Matthew Brown Companies. I'm indeffing all three. No comment on the IPs, but come back if they or any other IPs start up similar shenanigans concerning these companies.  Girth Summit  (blether)  16:26, 8 April 2023 (UTC)