Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Abagley97/Archive

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I'm not convinced myself they are socks, but these accounts all seem to have been recently editing N. K. Bansal in a similar manner, but thought might be worth confirming. Kj cheetham (talk) 08:57, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

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I'm not seeing any evidence of socking here. It's true that they all started editing that page at roughly the same time, but there are differences in their editing styles that make me suspect they're different people. I'd also question why they would bother socking - they weren't getting any pushback in terms of reverts, and there wasn't a talk page discussion going on that they needed to win. I think it's more likely that the subject was in the news, or perhaps some people from his former institution got together and decided to work on his article (one of them has admitted a COI on their user page). TLDR: I don't think there's any disruption going on here. Closing. Girth Summit  (blether) 15:35, 22 December 2020 (UTC)