Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fairchilddavid/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Accounts created recently (March-April 2020). Interest in the same topic area of finance and/or Czech subjects. Edits suggest English as a second language. Similar patter of making small number of large-volume edits top to bottom changes to articles. A number of them have been warned about copyvio. Overlap of accounts editing the same articles: for example in the edit history of 1994 bond market crisis a sleepy article with low contribution history where 4 of the accounts show up in the past few months making similar types of edits that were copyvio, poorly worded, original research like many of the other edits by these editors. Green C  17:01, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * thank you for checking, that sounds like a good theory. --  Green  C  19:02, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * I've started taking a look but this isn't straightforward.  Maxim (talk)  19:43, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I think it's that one individual controls all these accounts; it is also generally  that any one individual operators multiple accounts here. To elaborate within the constraints of the privacy policy: there is geographic similarity between accounts but that's where the similarity ends; there exists no coherent matching with regards to ISPs or user agents. I wonder if these are post-secondary Czech economics students? That coupled with likely university closures would explain the technical data and the behavior.   Maxim (talk)  18:23, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Closing without action per the above. The SandDoctor  Talk 04:25, 19 June 2020 (UTC)