Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Freshup666/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
See Ghadamakhouls' talk page. edited Draft:Eastern Institute for Integrated Learning in Management which was created by Freshup666 which prompted the UPE question. Ghadamakhouls was honest in their response so this is clearly at least UPE WP:MEAT but requesting CU to check for sleepers. S0091 (talk) 23:08, 9 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Based on my conversation with Ghadamakhouls which was ongoing at the time of filing the SPI, if there is no CU connection to Freshup666 then these are likely independent freelancers so not WP:MEAT, at least in the sense they were not coordinating with each other. To Ghadamakhouls' credit, they have been quite transparent about their activity and were trying to blank the draft at the request of the client. While they have not "officially" declared COI via their User page, they have not hidden it so this, to me, cannot be a UPE claim either. However, it is clear they have/had the same client but I am sure how that is viewed from a WP:MEAT perspective.  I have no issue with this being closed as no finding. S0091 (talk) 20:57, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * CU says unrelated. Leaving open for someone else to review whether this is MEAT. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:31, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
 * As mentioned above, this appears to be a case of two freelancers picking up the same job (see User_talk:Ghadamakhouls). Unlike Freshup, Ghadamakouls has made an attempt to declare their paid editing, and promises to follow policy. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now and close this. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 12:29, 12 July 2022 (UTC)