Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BRassistant/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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The two accounts seem to be each attempting to insert promotional material into the exact same page, Betsy Rosenberg. BRassistant made an edit to the page that has since been suppressed (apparently due to a COPYVIO). The user, upon seeing that the page was modified by, edited as an IP and made a now-suppressed edit at Village Pump that (apparently) complained about the fact that the user's edit was removed. In doing so, the user revealed that they were Rosenberg's assistant. BRassistant was blocked on 10 September 2021 at 17:11 for using an advertising/promotional account to edit wikipedia.

A few hours later, SKYranch7 made their first and only edit to Wikipedia, which was to add promotional material to the same article. That material was quickly reverted by.

In light of the timeline, this is rather duck-ish. It would be odd for two independent promotional accounts to target the page on the same day. I'm requesting a CheckUser to see if these two accounts are technically related, though I think that there's strong behavioral evidence for block evasion. — Mikehawk10 (talk) 00:15, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

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I've been following this since I saw the original COI editor post to the Teahouse, and it seems clear to me that the accounts are strongly related if not not the same person, due to the content posted and the editing behavior itself. Pyrrho the Skeptic (talk) 00:43, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Clearly either socking or closely coordinated meat. Don't see the need for CU., closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 12:18, 12 September 2021 (UTC)