Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/HisPlumber/Archive

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HisPlumber was (soft) blocked in February for being the name of a business and creating a userpage about the business. Hisplumber23 is a pretty obvious sock, it was created yesterday to create what I assume was a draft about the business (I can't see the deleted pages) and was hardblocked. DavidJosephUSA created a fairly promotional draft about the company's founder, coincidentally named David Joseph. Kind of iffy whether this is bad-faith socking or just someone who is confused, but these are definitely three closely connected accounts, and they did come back with a near-identical promotional username after being softblocked for a promotional username, and DavidJosephUSA went active around the same time as Hisplumber23. creffett (talk) 19:40, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

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 * HisPlumber and DavidJosephUSA are ✅, while Hisplumber23 is . - I've reblocked the master with a hard block and blocked DavidJosephUSA indefinitely. Since Hisplumber23 was hard-blocked before DavidJosephUSA began editing, it is a violation of the sock puppetry policy as block evasion. I also suspect these accounts are engaging in undisclosed paid editing. Closing. Mz7 (talk) 02:39, 22 April 2020 (UTC)