Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Drgrisanti/Archive

17 June 2014

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Over a period of several years, several usernames have added similar but not identical statements to the article functional medicine which have been consistently removed. Though each addition is not worded exactly the same, the style of writing is consistent with similar sentence structure and grammar as well as pushing a consistent point of view. The edits always pertain to the meaning/definition of functional medicine. The topic has been raised on the talk page but the additions continue. The usernames also try to promote certain institutions related to Functional medicine and to change the balance of the article in favour of functional medicine as scientific fact. In doing so they repeatedly remove the "Reception" or "Criticism" section or a sentence giving the opinion of Stephen Barrett from Quackwatch. Again this has been raised on the talk page and Quackwatch has consensus as a reliable source on this topic. All of these usernames exist only for editing functional medicine or closely related pages and have never made any other edits on other topics.

Difs adding definition of functional medicine
 * Rsschuyler
 * Rsschuyler
 * Rsschuyler
 * Srgwriter
 * Srgwriter
 * Changing medicine
 * Drgrisanti

Difs deleting the "Reception" or "Criticism" section
 * Rsschuyler
 * Rsschuyler
 * 70.194.65.127
 * AngelinaPuglia
 * Institute for Functional Medicine
 * Drgrisanti

Difs deleting the line about "Stephen Barrett from Quackwatch"
 * AngelinaPuglia
 * Institute for Functional Medicine
 * Drgrisanti

User habits
 * Rsschuyler - only edited functional medicine, closely related pages and user talk pages
 * Srgwriter - only edited functional medicine and talk pages
 * AngelinaPuglia - only edited functional medicine
 * Changing medicine - only edited functional medicine
 * Institute for Functional Medicine - only edited functional medicine and talk pages
 * Drgrisanti - only edited functional medicine and user talk pages
 * 70.194.65.127 - only edited functional medicine Rincewind42 (talk) 14:58, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
. Some of the accounts are stale. However, there are enough to establish a connection between them (not with the alleged master who is stale). Some accounts have too few edits (Changing medicine has only one) to label as a puppet without a technical connection (some of those are stale). I don't see much for Ancara or Adamreinman to establish a behavioral connection. Depending on the outcome of the CU, if performed, the master may change as Rsschuyler is the oldest account (but has also edited recently).--Bbb23 (talk) 15:01, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * The non-stale accounts are ❌. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 16:03, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I see no basis for taking any action; nor is there a good reason to change the master as there's no technical evidence of socking by Rsschuyler. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:23, 21 June 2014 (UTC)