Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Faskenlaw/Archive

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The article Fasken has a history of puffery editing and removing COI tags, going back to 2009. There were much earlier accounts which were obviously COI - User:Fasken Martineau in June 2009, and User:FaskenTO in 2011 which was username blocked. Since those are so stale I am proposing User:Faskenlaw as the master.

Faskenlaw edited promotionally in December 2017 and August 2018; they were username blocked in August.

Mrjay2018 made a single puffery edit in August

Coogeckolow made three promo edits in May 2018

Histnewbie is the current suspect and the one I am most concerned about. They created a brand new account in January 2019. Their very first edits were to add poorly sourced puffery to the Fasken article and remove a multiple-issue tag. They also uploaded an image of the founder, ,   apparently copied from here. After being challenged for COI, they started going around to other lawyer articles, removing information as badly sourced. They denied COI at their talk page.

During November and December 2018, numerous single-use IPs removed the COI and notability tags. All were in the range 2607:fea8:2cdf:fda2:. I have listed only the three most recent. MelanieN (talk) 21:19, 1 February 2019 (UTC)


 * UPDATE since this request has gotten stale: Histnewbie has stopped his rampage after being warned, but on Feb. 6 a new user appeared called, who seems to have been doing some of the same kind of edit - at first removing COI edits that Histnewbie had added, then trimming and removing stuff from law firm articles - in some cases continuing to clean up the SAME articles that Histnewbie had been working on. At one point Histnewbie gave some advice to OhSweetNuthin about removing COI tags, to which OhSweetNuthin responded. Both Histnewbie and OhSweetNuthin commented on my talk page after Lindenfall suggested they might be connected. I honestly don't know what to make of these two. -- MelanieN (talk) 00:34, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

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There is only one non-stale account. CU declined.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:32, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
 * OhSweetNuthin and Histnewbie are ❌ to each other. I don't think there's anything more to do here. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:21, 3 March 2019 (UTC)