Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/JNorman704/Archive

17 June 2014

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Paid editing to promote new media companies and remove criticism. accounts play together, often in an edit-smoothen-support pattern. Accounts have similar "interests" user pages. Few edits, but know Wikipedia policy by heart? Looks like Morning277 to me. Connection in article New Relic: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Relic&dir=prev&action=history co-editing with banned Sockpuppet User:CitizenNeutral. On ZocDoc, created by JNorman704, we can see BTWheeler remove a tag, then JNorman704 (talk), then a bit later BTWheeler  again. It looks as if this sockpuppet may have been created to support this article - removing the "new article" tag was one of his first edits! Similarly, User:TomRWells appears to have the WP:SPA of removing ResearchGate critzisim. Bump (application) was massively extended (75%) by JNorman704, and known sock puppet User:The_Wikimon: 06:34, 17 June 2014 (UTC) Matt Cohler, written to large extends by JNorman704, is on the board of ResearchGate, where three of them have recently been trying to remove sourced critizism. Maybe I'm wrong. But his editing patterns are heavily biased towards new economy people and companies. 178.7.182.40 (talk) 20:15, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

He has just disclosed on his user page to sometimes be paid for edits by Next_Fifteen_Communications. Customers include ZocDoc and New_Relic as well as Facebook. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.216.207.117 (talk) 22:00, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

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 * - - This could very likely be meatpuppetry but I'd appreciate a CU taking a look for confirmation and sleepers. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:24, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
 * there are several issues with this case which push away from socking. Also if we suspect meatpuppetry, CU can't do anything to help. My concerns are as follows:
 * BTWheeler reverts TomRWells
 * An "edit-smoothen-support pattern" is how we improve Wikipedia. We all strive to make Wikipedia better in our own ideas pursuant to WP policies. While I can see where your coming from that they support each others edits, but this only happens once on New Relic between BTWheeler & JNorman704 in August 2013. Normally, this would happen more.
 * JNorman704 has 634 edits from 2009. This would have to be one of the oldest socks in the book and should have been detected already if it was.
 * Morning277 sock CitizenNeutral reverts the addition made by JNorman704
 * This evidence edit is several months later and only adds a category. Unless there is major history regarding category removal, we can't really use this as evidence.
 * Paid editing is NOT a reason to suspect sockpuppetry.


 * The case you present here attempts to connect several inconsistent behaviours between the accounts. Some of the facts as I outlined above do not match up. I, as a checkuser, look for a consistent behaviour between accounts before I will run a checkuser. I'm going to ping, so he can help you potentially create a stronger case in which I can look at in the future if you wish. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  19:29, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Closing with no further evidence presented. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  02:30, 25 July 2014 (UTC)