Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Chickienugs/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
User:Thewhiterabbit1 created 19:01, 11 October 2022. In their drafts, often deletes several references wholesale with similar case in edit summaries.

User:Matty19962022 created 04:49, 1 November 2022

Matty19962022 Makes nine autoconfirmation edits. Nearly all are bad spelling or grammar changes to apparently random articles.

9 Nov Matty19962022 creates user page with Michael Koch spam, with professional photo of subject declared as their own copyright. 

11 Nov, Matty19962022 creates larger, spammier Michael Koch (entrepreneur) at Michael Koch CEO and claiming copyright on second professional photo, reverts maintenance tags   etc

Matty19962022 does similar, odd removals of references from Michael Koch (entrepreneur), ,

When it’s nominated for speedy, Thewhiterabbit1 at 01:26, 11 November 20 posts unsigned “Contested deletion (Should not be deleted)” to User talk:Matty19962022:

Six minutes later, Matty19962022 replies to my question about COI at Talk:Michael Koch (entrepreneur): “He has appointed us to make his page live on Wikipedia since he was unable to fulfil the guidelines.“ Michael Koch (entrepreneur) was last created in in July 2022 by User:Lovebugzz, speedy deleted G11, and account blocked as sock of User:Chickienugs. Storchy (talk) 02:23, 11 November 2022 (UTC)


 * I also just noticed two things about User:Thewhiterabbit1. After starting out creating three spammy drafts, two of which are stuffed with fake references to medical journals, Thewhiterabbit1 followed up an edit by Matty19962022 to spammy N. C. Karunya . Storchy (talk) 13:39, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * . --Blablubbs (talk) 10:58, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Nothing conclusive from CU. appears to be on proxy;  has used a proxy as well but not consistently. I've blocked both for spamming, I'll leave the decision whether and how these should be tagged up to someone else.  --Blablubbs (talk) 11:06, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Tagged as suspected. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:04, 11 November 2022 (UTC)