Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hopesings1969/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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The suspected accounts have a history of POV-pushing and appear to have been created to maintain a small group of articles about or related to Elana Maryles Sztokman, whose edit history strongly suggests self-promotion. Most of the accounts' edits involve adding her name to lists of 'notables' (e.g.,, , ), adding information about organizations to which she is affiliated (e.g., , , , ), or adding extensive quotes from or links to Sztokman's publications on other articles (e.g., , , ). Kyuko (talk) 19:12, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * Almost certainly the same person, but most of these haven't been used in years.  Also, from a technical standpoint, we can't call this socking because (with a single exception I could find), none of the accounts were in use at the same time.  Maybe they just kept losing their password and didn't know about the password recovery mechanism, so they just kept creating new accounts.  The obvious similarity in usernames makes it unlikely they were trying to hide their identity.  I'll issue a uw-agf-sock to Hopesings69 (the only active account), and let it go at that. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:02, 4 October 2020 (UTC)