Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BreezewoodPA/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
This may be related to multiple previous SP investigations where a users made similar claims about bias in the Mastriano article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Helwr/Archive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RazorThick

Engineer-005 (who was banned for the far-right thing), 25stargeneral, Richinstead, JackGunn and BreezewoodPA have been concerned with removing the wording "Far-right" from the lead in Doug Mastriano for months. Almost all users make references to 'hyperlinked “far-right”'

BreezewoodPA claims to be a student at WVU and Richinstead has edited many pages related to WVU.

User admits to having sock puppet accounts with this comment and threatens to evade article edit ban.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ADoug_Mastriano&type=revision&diff=1116069843&oldid=1116069558

Admitting to having multiple accounts: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ADoug_Mastriano&type=revision&diff=1116069843&oldid=1116069558

Richinstead edits pages related to WVU: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=West_Virginia_University_Reed_College_of_Media&oldid=644738396

and BreezewoodPA states they attend WVU: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:BreezewoodPA&oldid=1086752400

and Richinstead has a similar introduction on user page only identifying themself as formerly attending Pitt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Richinstead&oldid=939697325

Requesting checker to ferret out other potential sock puppet accounts. I believe this may be a pretty extensive network of accounts that are all related based on the number of banned accounts associated with this article.

Hyderabad22 (talk) 23:14, 14 October 2022 (UTC)


 * There's a history of banned accounts and continued reverts around the lead word "far-right" in the article. BreezewoodPA made it clear in their comments they have alt accounts and will use them to evade bans. All linked accounts have either been banned for continued disruption surrounding the term used in the lead of Doug Mastriano or they've made nearly identical arguments to BreezewoodPA. This user has admitted to doing this and I believe there is compelling evidence in the history of the linked accounts and in previous SPIs Hyderabad22 (talk) 00:40, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Please close this: no proof that any of these have anything to do with Breezewood. Drmies (talk) 00:31, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Since Drmies CU blocked a sock of BreezewoodPA, we can surmise that he ran a check and that none of the accounts listed here came up. It isn't surprising that multiple people would edit with the same POV on a controversial article in American politics. Closing. Spicy (talk) 11:42, 15 October 2022 (UTC)