Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gavelboy/Archive

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The BLP page Victor Lewis-Smith has a bumpy history. I recently posted the following to alert editors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Victor_Lewis-Smith#Sigh As the subject of the article is a well-known and self-confessed hoaxer, it seems plausible that he might try and edit his own page, see the comment on User:Gavelboy by User:Sitush: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gavelboy

I copied my comment to User talk:Sitush and noticed that a new editor, User:Wiktvdoc, had recently posted on User talk:Sitush. As seen here User:Wiktvdoc claims to work in television (as does Victor Lewis-Smith) and perhaps more worryingly says they have a relationship with Jimmy Wales): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ASitush&type=revision&diff=1011527351&oldid=1011419902

8 hours after I copied my message across, User:Gavelboy posted on User talk:Sitush, twice, this comment is the more interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ASitush&type=revision&diff=1013478701&oldid=1013477269

It seems sensible to report the history of these three editors. There is not much to look at it but it seems clear enough what has been going on, ie that the subject of the article has been establishing sock puppets to edit his own article (perhaps this has been the case for many years but that is too hard for me to assess given the volume of troubling edits). 95.145.170.58 (talk) 08:29, 24 March 2021 (UTC) 95.145.170.58 (talk) 08:29, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

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Edit semi-protected Please move this page to the Wikipedia namepsce. Thanks. 95.145.170.58 (talk) 08:29, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done in accordance with WP:AGF. &mdash; KuyaBriBri Talk 15:40, 24 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Big doubts that there is socking as Wiktvdoc here but someone needs to review Gavelboy's contributions for COI and general tone. "Ascerbic" barely covers it. Am on mobile so largely keeping out of disputes. - Sitush (talk) 16:57, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Request close, per Sitush.  Mini  apolis  23:01, 30 May 2021 (UTC)