Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AnnSydow/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
AnnSydow is a SPA who has only edited about the Curmsun Disc (a gold disc discovered in 2014), its primary scholarly proponent Sven Rosborn, its relation to celebrities Ben Affleck and Casey Affleck, etc. As far as I can tell, most or all of these edits have added claims that support the Curmsun Disc being authentic, and removing claims that question its authenticity. This account was created on 7 June 2016, the date of AnnSydow's first edit; AnnSydow edits sporadically, sometimes editing related articles across several days but often leaving Wikipedia for weeks or months at a time.

The Lowerlands account was created on 19 December 2017 at 22:32 UTC but did not edit immediately. The account creation was 17 minutes before AnnSydow returned from a 4+ month break in editing. Lowerlands's first and only 2 edits were 5+ years later, to restore a poor-quality source added by AnnSydow the day before (which I had reverted).

I'm assuming that AnnSydow used the Lowerlands account because a possible COI had been mentioned at Talk:Curmsun Disc but it really doesn't matter. As far as I'm concerned, this is obvious sockpuppetry. I'm requesting a checkuser in case they're able to locate additional sleeper accounts. Woodroar (talk) 18:38, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅ Courcelles (talk) 02:24, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. Courcelles (talk) 02:24, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Closing. Spicy (talk) 11:31, 27 June 2023 (UTC)