Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Boman12/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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The article City University of Hong Kong has a long history of COI promotional editing (particularly with regard to university rankings). All the above accounts suddenly appeared during the past five days, are single-purpose accounts (editing on CityU only), and have been adding promotional content and whitewashing referenced content.


 * Examples of promotion
 * Boman12 – inappropriately promotional tone
 * Jenny114 – re-adding some content that was added by Boman12 earlier in the day
 * Austinforexas – also re-adding Boman12's removed content
 * Alexintie – inappropriately promotional content
 * Examples of whitewashing or blanking referenced content and/or PR damage control
 * Boman12
 * Kowloonandhk
 * Helloworldfellow


 * An idiosyncrasy that further suggests these are the same person: all the accounts that have user pages have put their own signature on the page:


 * User:Jenny114
 * User:Austinforexas
 * User:Alexintie
 * User:Dyingforfreedom
 * User:Asianhongkonger

Also, I think the article should be semi-protected. Thanks! Citobun (talk) 06:04, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * - lots of SPA promotion by multiple accounts. If they are linked they are using multiple accounts to revert other editors. Might be part of a UPE sock farm, requesting and endorsing CU to find any links. Also some the accounts seem behaviorally more connected than others, and a check will help determine which accounts are socks. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 10:07, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * One more account to add to the pile: . Signature on userpage. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 22:25, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * - Katietalk 14:49, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Good catch, . :-) These accounts are ✅ to each other:


 * I don't see any sleepers; they're all pretty obvious. The page has PC on it now and I think that will do for the next month. If it gets worse, it may need to have semi laid over it. All blocked, tagged, closed. Katietalk 15:11, 4 September 2020 (UTC)