Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bezoma/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Three users recently have been adding the same content, sometimes formatted a little differently, but the same promotional citations organized into SYNTH. I believe they are someone working for the subject, or the subject himself.

All three are SPAs which have only edited the article Bruce Friedrich, and have made extensive edits right out of the starting gate. I submit that these edits are made by someone close to the subject because this edit by Bezoma used an edit summary of "Removed irrelevant and original content from overview and Early Life sections, as well as See Also associations no longer relevant to person's current work."

For example, this edit by Bezoma is comparable to this edit by Varun.gad, and is comparable to this edit by 71.187.79.109 , using the same dozen or so citations but formatted or worded very slightly different while still covering the same content.

Similarly, this edit by Bezoma contains an identical element to this edit by 71.187.79.109. These edits both remove the half sentence "and the author of two books" from the lede, which is odd because it seems true as there are two books listed in the article's "Works" section as being written by this subject. So why would any ordinary Wikipedia editor remove that? Normal Op (talk) 19:28, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

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 * The two accounts are . -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 22:19, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I believe these accounts are working on behalf of the subject and/or coordinating with each other. I have both (UPE blocks rather than sock blocks). GeneralNotability (talk) 17:06, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
 * (IP left unblocked because it hasn't edited in two weeks). GeneralNotability (talk) 17:07, 23 October 2020 (UTC)