Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BazzaHarp/Archive

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Both accounts only add work by Paul Harpur to articles. Even though BazzaHarp is technically older, that account didn't make a single edit until Prof PD Hoy racked up warnings about spamming articles. Then Hoy went dormant and Harp began making the same edits to the same articles (both adding Harpur information to Social model of disability, Disability abuse)
 * Prof PD Hoy examples include 1, 2, 3
 * BazzaHarp examples include 1, 2, and 3. Justeditingtoday (talk) 03:15, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

I just found 58.106.29.53 who was making the same edits to promote Harpur. Justeditingtoday (talk) 03:24, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''  This seems like a rather tortured connection. Further, Justherefortheday has been involved in a series of highly aberrant, disruptive edits in which he is removing vast quantities of unambiguously RS material (for example:, , , and more than three dozen other examples) - primarily legal journals - if it's authored by Paul Harpur (ostensibly on the grounds it's "self promotion", though I'm not sure how that works). Harpur is a tenured senior lecturer and researcher on disability law at the University of Queensland  who has authored many RS on issues of disability law, as a quick JSTOR search confirms, and whose work shows-up frequently in related WP articles as a result. I'm not sure what's going on here, but I'm not sure Justherefortheday is making this report with clean hands. I'm concerned we are having cornerstone research on these issues eviscerated from WP because Harpur may have given a student a bad grade, or some other less-than-GF reason. BlueSalix (talk) 04:03, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry you are so upset that I put your article up for AfD, but WP:WIKIHOUNDING me is not the solution. Justeditingtoday (talk) 04:06, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I can assure you, I am not WIKIHOUNDING you. When one engages in highly aberrant edits one attracts attention to one's edit history and this shot right out. BlueSalix (talk) 04:16, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * If you are admitting that you are looking through my edit history for things to criticize, then you are meeting the definition of wikihounding. Please stop harassing me. Justeditingtoday (talk) 04:19, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
your comments are in no way a refutation of the subject under discussion here, which is sockpuppetry. I would add that it does look like you are engaging in retailiatory behavior. Your input would be more helpful at the thread at WP:ANI about your apparent conflict with Justeditingtoday than here. Beeblebrox (talk) 04:24, 12 April 2017 (UTC)


 * This is a glaringly obvious case of sockpuppetry, and nobody who has looked at the editing could reasonably make such a statement as that it is "a rather tortured connection". At first I hesitated to block the Prof PD Hoy account, as it has not edited for a long time, but I decided that on balance it would be better to do so, as the block on the other account might prompt that one to come out of hibernation. The IP address, however, made just four edits, all within a few minutes of one another well over a year ago, and there is no justification for a block there. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:06, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

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Chestersean appears to have taken up from blocked user BazzaHarp the campaign to post referrals to Paul Harpur writings in arbitrary articles. Largoplazo (talk) 10:14, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:55, 21 May 2017 (UTC)