Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DoctorsAcademy1/Archive

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Doctors Academy, Doctors Academy Groups, Draft:Doctors Academy and Doctors Academy Group of Educational Establishments are recreations spanning a decade of the same company. Some of the editors reported here may be different individuals, but are acting as UPE meatpuppets if so. An established SPI case will help with future recreations. See discussion with User:Cabayi at User talk:Eostrix. I can't see deleted contribs, so some of this report is less detailed than it would be otherwise.

DoctorsAcademy1 created Doctors Academy, which was G11ed on 9 November 2012.

Rhapsodize4452 created Doctors Academy, which was G12ed on 10 November 2012.

Doctors Academy created a promotional user page (G11ed) in June 2014. This is a common UPE practice of setting up user pages with the name of the organization.

DA DoctorsAcademy created Dr Stuart Enoch and DoctorsAcademy which were G12 as copies of the organization's website in June 2014.

Doctors Academy, Cardiff created a promotional user page in June 2014 on meta (this gets cross-displayed to other Wikipedia projects).

DoctorsAcademy, United Kingdom, related by username, did something promotional enough to get blocked for it on 25 June 2014.

Doctors Academy Groups did something on 26 June 2014, and is related by username pattern.

Malistomailie was active from 22 July 2014. I don't have evidence on them (most of their contribs are deleted), but User:Cabayi mentioned them to me so I am listing them here so that people who can see deleted contribs can assess.

Ashcole13 did something in their deleted contribs I can't see in September 2014, but they also uploaded File:DA Logo (2015).png (+ 2 others) that was deleted as a copyvio on Commons in 2015.

ChloeLKL did something in their deleted contribs I can't see, but also linked to Doctors Academy on October 2014 with promotional text.

117.241.57.218 created Draft:Doctors Academy in 2014, which had copyright issues. This IP is from Bangalore (southern India).

Synamatics created Doctors Academy, which was A7ed on 28 February 2017. Synamatics declared on their (now deleted) user paged they were "Synamatics Media Studio" which according to the company Facebook is in Thiruvananthapuram (southern India).

The November 2012 accounts are obviously the same individual, and likewise the June 2014 accounts. The relationship with other account groups is at the very least UPE meat.

Afbell (the non-stale account) created Doctors Academy Group of Educational Establishments in April 2021. They also stated, after deletion nomination, that they were paid by the company. This account gamed AC status in order to create the article (e.g. Kazakhstan and the "rest of the "European Union"). Like Ashcole13, Afbell also uploaded the company logo to Commons: File:Doctors Academy Logo.jpg. I think this is sufficient to tie Afbell to some of the prior activity here.

CU to see if other recent accounts are connected to Afbell, not to confirm the case itself which is behavioral. The existence of a confirmed case will help with the next time DA UPEs show up.  Eostrix  (&#x1F989; hoot hoot&#x1F989;) 13:16, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

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 * - There's only one sock fresh enough for CU. I'm convinced of the puppetry but since I encouraged  to file the report I'm recusing myself from further involvement. Cabayi (talk) 10:34, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Ugh. Yes, this looks like a longtime project to get an on this Doctors' Academy onto Wikipedia...but it's been something like four years since the last attempt. This version is significantly different from the previous attempts, and we're probably looking at the latest person whose boss asked them to "go make a Wikipedia page for us" - that is, I do not think the person making this was even aware of the past attempts. They've made a clumsy attempt to declare their connection at AfD, I've slapped them with uw-paid1, let's see where it goes from here. No blocks at this time, but I will be keeping a close eye on them. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:13, 8 May 2021 (UTC)