Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Adwalking/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Both the user Adwalking and the user MikeyDoon are editors of only a single page, of which Adwalking has admitted to be the subject. The page is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Blessitt

Diff evidence that User adwalking (the subject of this page) consistently reverted or changed mentions of his divorce and remarriage in the same year of 1990:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Blessitt&type=revision&diff=905364748&oldid=905348800

History page showing that user Adwalking consistently marks all his contributions as minor (m):

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Blessitt&offset=20190710091307&action=history

First diff from new user MikeyDoon showing he has the same concern - to rewrite info about the user's divorce and remarriage in 1990 - as user Adwalking, marked as a minor edit (m):

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Blessitt&type=revision&diff=905697456&oldid=905668702

Account information from MikeyDoon, showing account was created just hours before that edit and showing this user only edits this page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/MikeyDoon

Also relevant that this user account was created later on the same day that user Adwalking received the following warning on his talk page:

"Sorry, but we can't have subjects of articles editing their own articles. You can use the talk page to make suggestions so long as you can find reliable sources for them, see WP:VERIFY and WP:RS. But you need to avoid editing it directly. Doug Weller talk 09:17, 10 July 2019 (UTC)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Adwalking

Another diff showing the user is only concerned with the issue of the page subjects divorce and remarriage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Blessitt&type=revision&diff=907443900&oldid=907394227 Sirfurboy (talk) 14:20, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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I am fine with just a COI tag. Who does that? Sirfurboy (talk) 17:39, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Yes, looks like they created a new account to get away from the admission that they were the subject of the article. Doesn't seem like a block is warranted, though, since it's just a slow-mo content dispute. Could throw a COI / sock tag on the new account, but other than that, I'm not sure what action would be warranted here. ST47 (talk) 18:52, 19 August 2019 (UTC)