Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BotanikmanUSA/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
BotanikmanUSA has made 6 edits. 4 of them have been to the page Roger L. Hammer, and one of the other two was about their edits to that page. Gladesguy has made 3 edits, all to Roger L. Hammer. On January 14, BotanikmanUSA replaced the existing article with a brand new article, which contained no sources, and included in the edit summary that it was At Roger's request. (Diff: ). They made an additional edit providing a single source... themselves, BotanikmanUSA, personal friend and colleague of Roger Hammer. (Diff: ). These edits were reverted and BotanikmanUSA was given the notice about conflicts of interest. (Diff of notice: ) BotanikmanUSA has made no edits since receiving the notice. Today, Gladesguy has made three edits to the article. (Diffs: ) These edits once again replace the entire article with an unsourced article - and it's the same article as the one entered by BotanikmanUSA, which was done, according to BotanikmanUSA, At Roger's request and "sourced" to BotanikmanUSA's personal friendship with Roger. (Comparison: BotanikmanUSA's version Gladesguy's version) The chief difference is that Gladesguy does not mention having a connection to the article subject. It also seems relevant that that Gladesguy did not simply revert to put BotanikmanUSA's version back, as edits 2 and 3 were to fix the formatting errors from edit 1, which suggests that they didn't get the text from Wikipedia, but from somewhere else. The most logical explanation is that they got it from the same place BotanikmanUSA did. I am not requesting CheckUser since the connection, whether sock or meat, is obvious enough that there does not seem to be a need. Egsan Bacon (talk) 02:49, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * It's obvious that they're getting the material from the same place. Whether they're the same person is a different matter - CU says they're ❌ aside from being in different parts of the same large country. I'm going to block both accounts from editing the article, as there is an obvious conflict of interest, but I'll give them some advice rather than just block and tag. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  14:48, 8 April 2022 (UTC)