Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Colin Larkin/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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Filing this after consultation with ; mostly restating my original message.

claims to be the subject of the article Colin Larkin. His edit history began as largely that of a WP:SPA. He edited the Colin Larken article directly until warned by in October 2018. To my knowledge, he has never submitted verification that he is the article subject, per WP:REALNAME.

He's also been named in two postings at WP:COIN, over concerns about the two accounts I listed above editing in coordination with him:
 * Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 182
 * Conflict of interest/Noticeboard

During the first discussion, he with another user,. He claims that he changed the password, and no action was taken.

This might all be just bad judgement from several users, but when an admin is concerned enough to suggest a SPI, I'm inclined to agree. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:23, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Cmt: I asked to open this as I was busy for a couple of hours (ty, Drm310!). On behavioural grounds, I was struck by the close similarity between edits such as  by The Music Guides Playlists and  by Muso805 (note: missing italicisation before The Encyclopedia of Popular Music in both, identical formatting of the ISBN), but also by the difference in the edit summaries. The vast majority of all edits by both users relate to Larkin. Hoping that check-user will cast some light. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:24, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  19:13, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to and also to  - this is clear an unambigious, there is no way a match like this could possibly be accounted for by giving your password to somebody. Since Colin Larkin says that they are aware of the COI guidance, and appear to be using alternative accounts to avoid scrutiny, I am indefinitely blocking all of these accounts.
 * appears to be ❌; however, from a quick look on Google, I would suggest that their username is a violation of WP:UPOL, and if their edits are promotional they should likely be spam-ublocked.  Girth Summit  (blether)  19:19, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
 * raised that concern almost a year ago, and the user . However I see no such request. I've reported them to UAA.


 * Everyone's blocked, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:57, 24 January 2022 (UTC)