Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/B3May15/Archive

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All three of these accounts have made no other article edits except to International Art Museum of America. Kchsieh100 is the latest, an account created today. None of the accounts have posted their COI, or listed themselves as paid editors, although B3May15 (who created the article) claimed when challenged on their talk page to be a "volunteer" with the museum.

This is obviously either sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry at the direction of the museum - which is a suspect institution primarily dedicated to a single artist who claims to be a re-incarmation of the Buddha. (Sources verifying that he made this claim are in the article.) A handful of independent editors (including myself) have removed the blatant WP:PROMO from the article and sourced it, but an obscure article such as this is inherently vulnerable to biased promotional editing.

These accounts should be required to state their COI or their paid status, if appropriate, and be barred from editing the article in the future or creating new accounts to do so. It might be worthwhile to permanently semi-protect the article as well to prevent this. Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:03, 24 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Bbb23: Thanks. Meatpuppetry then, I guess. Beyond My Ken (talk) 14:08, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

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The master is. The two suspected puppets are ❌.--Bbb23 (talk) 11:19, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Closing. Sro23 (talk) 04:48, 9 April 2018 (UTC)