Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Impspired Press/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Both the master and sock appear to be single-purpose accounts dedicated to the promotion of Jeffrey M. Feingold, a writer. The master account created a draft about the article subject back in May, and it was declined. Come August, a second account (the sock) was created and posted a sandbox draft of an article on Feingold a mere one minute after account creation. Later in August, the sock proceeded to create a mainspace article on Feingold. After the content was removed by a third-party editor as being unreferenced, with an explicit request that the sock "Please don't add again without reliable and published third-party sources", the master edited the page and re-inserted the challenged content a mere one day later without including new third-party references.

The relative obscurity of the writer, combined with the history of each of these accounts and the interactions on the mainspace page, suggests to me that the two accounts may be connected. If these two accounts are operated by the same individual, this would be a case in which multiple accounts were used in a manner that created the illusion that multiple people supported the inclusion of that content. That, of course, would amount to abuse of multiple accounts, as WP:SOCK explicitly states that [e]ditors may not use more than one account to contribute to the same page or discussion in a way that suggests they are multiple people. As such, a checkuser is requested to evaluate the extent of technical connection between the two accounts. — Red-tailed hawk  (nest) 05:01, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * There's obviously some improper collusion going on. I don't think they're the same person - Impspired Press is editing consistently out of a regular /64 range, whereas Leone Faran is mostly doing stuff through VPNs, but there's enough to make me think they're in a different country. More likely a UPE editor/client connection than actual socking, but blocking without tags per meat.  Girth Summit  (blether)  11:51, 30 August 2023 (UTC)