Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hoodshark/Archive

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Three SPAs all signed up on of after 16 February all editing Explosive harpoon. Master starts here, Xenoshin adds here and Sidasoya comes in. All reasonably harmless except all are editing copyright info and all from the same unreliable web-site whalecraft.net which itself seems to be selling one author's book. Looks like a meat farm designed to promote a book although why involve three editors is a mystery unless it is much more to do with on-line gaming since many later references are to Nukopedia !  Velella  Velella Talk 01:20, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Update - I am content to believe that these may be new and inexperienced editors working together unaware of the issues around sockpuppetry. Subsequent edits have been unproblematical and I have all those involved on my watch list should issues arise in future.  Velella  Velella Talk 01:29, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

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'Hi, I am XenoSHIN. I, along with the other two accused members of this group of people editing the Explosive Harpoons page are students working on a project to help add to an underdeveloped stub. My part was to contribute to finding how Explosive Harpoons were inspired in pop culture. I found many games, comics, anime, etc. that showcased how Explosive harpoons inspired some of popular media. We are all different people, and not one person. We never meant to promote anything. We just found interesting facts and were trying to help update this page.'' — Preceding unsigned comment added by XenoSHIN (talk • contribs) 01:32, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

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 * Hoodshark and XenoSHIN are editing from the same academic institution with the same user agent. It is likely they are using the institution’s computers.  They are either one person or classmates who know each other.  Sidvasoya is editing from the same geographic area as the institution with a different user agent.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:45, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * All warned, closing. GABgab 03:08, 21 February 2018 (UTC)