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and on the page Kevin Vuong, a previously protected page with controversial subject involving the 2021 Canadian federal election. I suspect the new accounts were created solely for WP:PUFF for the article to make the subject look better. CaffeinAddict (talk) 04:46, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * Could be sox. Could be two employees of the same PR firm. Could be two people who happen to really like this guy. But even if these are the same person, there hasn't been any violation of WP:SOCK. GBT had not received any warnings or other scrutiny when the JHID account was created. You've given both warnings for puffery and COI. I think that's all that can be done at this point.  and closing, but if more evidence emerges that this is sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry, feel free to re-file and ping me. This is without prejudice to the possibility of sanctions for COI/UP editing.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 05:09, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
These accounts appear to be single-purpose socks and have only made substantial edits to the page Kevin Vuong, portraying the subject in a positive light.

While the HomelandCarrie account only has one edit, the edit summary references the WP:LIVE policy, similar to ClimateAction613 such as these two https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Vuong&diff=next&oldid=1076245027&diffmode=source

The above two edits in addition to referencing the same policy were also both mobile edits, occuring on the same day within an hour of each other. It is curious that the new account, HomelandCarrie, is aware of Wikipedia policy enough to reference it on the first edit summary.

We see an overlap in activity between all accounts except the newest one (HomelandCarrie) on October 26, 2021. JekylHydeInDisguise, ClimateAction613 within an hour of one another, and both accounts are then inactive until March 2022.

ClimateAction613 and HomelandCarrie both attempted to re-add the FRSA post-nominal here (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Vuong&diff=prev&oldid=1076243338&diffmode=source) and here (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Vuong&diff=prev&oldid=1076249058)

JekylHydeInDisguise and HomelandCarrie also include unsourced personal details in their edits, such as the reason for Vuong's father being laid off (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Vuong&diff=prev&oldid=1047432021&diffmode=source) or (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Vuong&diff=prev&oldid=1076249058&diffmode=source) with HomelandCarrie re-adding the info from JekylHydeInDisguise's edit after it was removed.

Except for the newest account, HomelandCarrie, which only has one edit, there is not a single substantial non-Kevin Vuong related edits in GreenBalconyTrees, JekylHydeInDisguise and ClimateAction613’s contribution history. The only thing they do is add links in random articles. The edit summaries are also similar, for example, “added link to relevant WP page” seen here (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Maloy_Anderson&diff=prev&oldid=1051983621&diffmode=source), here (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=India_Knight&diff=prev&oldid=1050960648&diffmode=source) and here (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Synoecism&diff=prev&oldid=1075238923&diffmode=source). — WildComet talk 02:39, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

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 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 04:22, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Looking at the CU data by itself, ClimateAction613 is ✅ to HomelandCarrie. JekylHydeInDisguise is  to those two, but there's some clues which make it clear that, at a minimum, there's a COI problem.  GreenBalconyTrees is  but there's enough obvious behavioral clues that I'm just going to call everybody suspected. -- RoySmith (talk) 04:56, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
GBT and associated suspected socks were previously blocked due to behaviour on the Kevin Vuong page. Behaviour from CassetteNotDVDs and Fishfiltergold is similar to that of blocked socks.

For example, the only edits a suspected sock User:JekylHydeInDisguise contributed not related to the Vuong page is linking words in random articles. The following edits from Fishfiltergold's limited history mirror this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fabian_Alomar&diff=prev&oldid=1077749814&diffmode=source

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radio_Lagos&diff=prev&oldid=1077750018&diffmode=source

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cornelis_Vreeswijk&diff=prev&oldid=1077750122&diffmode=source

The only substantial edits from the account are in relation to Vuong.

CassetteNotDVDs only has three edits, but the first one (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Vuong&diff=prev&oldid=1077369113&diffmode=source) includes the addition of the FRSA postnominal. This is also at edit from Filterfishgold (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Vuong&diff=1077749304&oldid=1077369113).

The attempted addition of this postnominal is also one of the edits of an already blocked sock (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Vuong&diff=1076243338&oldid=1076242709&diffmode=source).

The accounts are trying to re-edit in info that was previously deleted, and behaviour mirrors other suspected socks where they only make substantial edits in relation to Vuong, with the edit history being padded by adding links in random articles. Pinging who previously worked on the already blocked socks.— WildComet talk 04:50, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

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 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 17:35, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
 * CassetteNotDVDs is ✅ to Fishfiltergold. They are  to GBT due to proxy use, tagging as suspected. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:48, 18 March 2022 (UTC)