Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gregsongs1/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
In 2015 revealed himself to be Greg O'Connor when he threatened to "report" me for making changes to "my wiki page":. Shortly thereafter was blocked as a sock of Gregsongs1, but Gregsongs1 was not blocked. SPA showed up in 2018, making major changes to Greg O'Connor, much of which was poorly sourced. When I removed or changed most of Joey6strings' edits, he left a message at Talk:Greg O'Connor stating that he is "helping Greg with his Wikipedia page". After I informed Joey6strings that much of what he added to the article was poorly sourced and that he is required to declare his COI, Joey6strings has not made another edit, but Gregsongs1 returned for the first edit in 8 years with this edit. is another SPA who made poorly sourced edits in 2020. Although I have asked for a CU, if an admin considers this a WP:DUCK case that might expedite things. I think both sockmaster and sockpuppets should be blocked. Thanks. Sundayclose (talk) 22:03, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Update: Joey6strings continued to edit without identifying his COI and removed the COI template from the article after being specifically told not to do so. And now he's editing from IP 104.172.170.76. This looks more and more like WP:DUCK. Sundayclose (talk) 21:50, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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 * These accounts are :
 * They are also to  based on past checks. Sigbates previously claimed to be a representative of ASCAP, a commercial organization requiring disclosure under our paid contributions policy and terms of use. This has been requested of these accounts several times in plain terms and they have failed to comply. I did not check Zoomanager603 as they are stale.
 * Taking the users at their word, it appears that Gregsongs1 is the article subject while the other accounts and the IP are a commercial organization feigning ignorance of our requests by pretending to be new users, but the evidence doesn't preclude plain old sockpuppetry by a single person, and for our purposes it doesn't matter which one it is. So:
 * They are also to  based on past checks. Sigbates previously claimed to be a representative of ASCAP, a commercial organization requiring disclosure under our paid contributions policy and terms of use. This has been requested of these accounts several times in plain terms and they have failed to comply. I did not check Zoomanager603 as they are stale.
 * Taking the users at their word, it appears that Gregsongs1 is the article subject while the other accounts and the IP are a commercial organization feigning ignorance of our requests by pretending to be new users, but the evidence doesn't preclude plain old sockpuppetry by a single person, and for our purposes it doesn't matter which one it is. So:


 * Joey6strings and the IP are blocked for violating Wikipedia's terms of use by editing for pay without the required disclosure, after sufficient warnings.
 * Gregsongs1 is indefinitely blocked from editing his article. I will leave instructions for how he may request edits on the article's talk page.
 * I am removing the coi banner, as Sundayclose has already purged the article. I suggest you review archived sources for the edit that Gregsongs1 attempted to restore - there's a very old version on archive.org that may partially support the information in the edit, but I'll leave it up to you to determine if it should be in the article even if it is supported.
 * -- Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:36, 23 July 2023 (UTC)