Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DrJonathanBrent/Archive

24 June 2011

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DrJonathanBrent created an article that appeared to have a conflict of interest based upon the user name and article name of Jonathan Brent here. It was tagged with a COI tag and an autobiography tag, which was removed by Jacksonville Florida based anon account 74.178.217.40 claiming "Neutral point of view" as the reason for removal, which doesn't make much sense. An edit which hid that editing history was made by new account Permissionforpicture by redirecting to a new article title name created. The coi tag was re-applied (along with a notability tag) and was subsequently removed by Permissionforpicture without stating a reason. After that removal was reinstated, it was once again removed by another Jacksonville Florida based anon IP 98.82.236.204. Another Jacksonville Florida based anon IP account 98.71.229.153 was also active on the original article. And another Jacksonville Florida based anon IP was also active on the original article. This appears to be a meat/sock with the intent of promoting the Jonathan Brent article and removing COI tags by either changing the article name which makes the history more difficult to see, or directly removing the tags without addressing the issue. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 15:36, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Update: It has been removed yet again by another Jacksonville based anon IP: , which I have gone ahead and added to the report above. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 00:32, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

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 * So there's no actual abuse with regards to the two named accounts. They haven't edited concurrently at any point, so my assumption is that the master has given up that name due to its closeness to his actual name. I'll let it slide for now, but relist if more named accounts show up. As to the IPs, I've blocked two of them that have been active recently; the stale ones I've left alone. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:51, 29 June 2011 (UTC)