Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jamesmaharrison/Archive

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The suspected sock master has long been more or less WP:SPA on Caxton FX, CaxtonFX and it's founder Rupert Lee-Browne. The IP addresses exhibit same editing pattern as the master. Both are corporate IPs with the same ISP and location in London. Incidentally, the master seems to be an undisclosed paid editor and the new user GenieEdits was created and made an edit on the same articles within less than an hour of the articles and master being tagged. pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 10:40, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment post raising the case. Although now dormant and possibly technically different, the following may be sleeper accounts:, , , . pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 10:51, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

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Hello - I have just seen this to my surprise - Jamesmaharrison is my only profile being used - I think the JamesmaharrisonPRO one I set up about 10 years ago as I could not remember if I had a profile so if I have done anything wrong is purely by mistake and not with any intent to fool anyone

To be honest, I am not an expert at any of this and am still learning how to get pages written and put up - it seems that over the years I have not written enough although I love the financial services sector that I have been recently writing about

let me know if there is anything I can do to clear this up

Jamesmaharrison (talk) 14:54, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment A response has been given on the user's talk page.(diff) pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 15:23, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

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 * The single edit from GenieEdits is not enough to go on. The other named accounts are very stale, and therefore largely irrelevant. The IP editing is infrequent enough that I'm willing to chalk it up to accidental editing while logged out. There are serious COI concerns here, but SPI is not the venue for raising them. Sir Sputnik (talk) 03:00, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
 * - With a bit more to go on from GenieEdits, this is probably worth a check given the COI concerns. Sir Sputnik (talk) 16:34, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
 * It's that the two accounts are related. . —DoRD (talk)​ 17:16, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Meatpupptery is as likely as sockpuppetry here so no tags, but it's blockworthy either way given the COI issues. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:36, 12 May 2019 (UTC)