Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dougsmom/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dougsmom

The page that Dougsmom is editing has been in an editing war for the past few weeks, with multiple brand-new users who have never made edits before making accounts and deleting the sexual assault allegation section of Missouri state senator Steve Roberts's page. Roberts is expected to announce his run for Missouri's First U.S. Congressional District this month, and he has already hired staff, which is why there have been so many edits to make his page look more favorable for him. There was an edit last month (February) that was from the Missouri State Government's IP address, suggesting that Roberts himself edited the page or one of his staffers, which would be a campaign ethics violation, as government officials are not allowed to use state resources to campaign. Also, there was an account, MOFacts, which was created in February, whose only contributions to Wikipedia were to puff up Robert's page with favorable information and repeatedly delete the sexual assault allegations without sufficient justification, which other users called them out for. Other users reverted MOFact's edits. MOFacts then made an edit to misogynistically attack the credibility of a sexual assault victim with cited but weak evidence, added redundant information, and essentially engaged in he-said-she-said. I mentioned in my reversal of their edits that a Wikipedia page is supposed to be an overview of a subject, and if they would like to go in such depth, that they should edit the alleged victim, Cora Faith Walker,'s Wikipedia page, as Walker is a former state representative and has her own page. I reported MOFacts last week, and they have not made edits since. You can see their edits here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/MOfacts

Anyway, now Dougsmom has created an account, three weeks ago, and the only edits they have made was when this morning, Feb 8, they deleted the sexual assault allegation section. User C.Fred added it back immediately, then Dougsmom deleted it again, and C. Fred readded it. Dougsmom's stated reason both times for the deletion was: "Removed uncited edit." You can see this below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dougsmom This is false. The section was completely cited, as C.Fred noted. And Dougsmom made no attempt to find citations or mark the paragraphs as missing citations.

Again, I believe that Steve Roberts, his campaign staffers, supporters, or some people with conflicts of interest is/are editing this page to delete unfavorable information for a politician. Wikipedia was not made to be a campaign website, a website that flatters politicians, or a platform for misinformation: it is supposed to report the complete accurate truth, even when it is unflattering. It is especially important that people in positions of power have accurate pages. Please, investigate Dougsmom, but even more importantly, please lock this section (it talks about events from a few years ago and highly unlikely would have any new information to add) of Steve Roberts' page to prevent further deletion. It has been tiring to check on this page repeatedly and report these users, and this is really important information for the integrity of the page.

Thank you for the work that you do to keep Wikipedia running and preserve its integrity.

Best, GL382 GL382 (talk) 15:34, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Perhaps BOOMERANG but GL382's edits are equally questionable. Account originally created on 5th May 2020 with two edits on a school article (school based in Missouri), then pops up on 28th Feb 2022 making a complaint at the Talk page for Steve Roberts, a Missouri politician here about MOFacts. Makes a couple of gnomish edits on 28 Feb 2022 and 4th March 2022 before reverting IP edits at the Steve Roberts article. Language and tone (to me) of the Talk page comments is very similar to the this edit made by IP 24.178.244.90 (from Missouri). All that aside, no doubt Dougsmom was created for the sole purpose of edit-warring.  HighKing++ 16:43, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I don't really know what's going on here, but it's not worth the effort to figure out when WP:ECP on Steve Roberts (Missouri politician) solved the problem in a lot less time. Closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:43, 13 March 2022 (UTC)