Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jeff wincott/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Usernames are pretty much identical. Almost exclusive editing to the Jeff Wincott's page, with deviations of that pattern generally pertaining to Jeff Wincott. Shared desire for a picture of Jeff Wincott to be uploaded (,, I can only note that the file names are identical). And additional attempts to upload these pictures, (Jeffwincott, Jeff wincott). Editing for User:Jeff wincott stops entirely on the 9th of August 2012 and begins for User:Jeffwincott two days later. I threw user Runjik23 in as they are the self-proclaimed publicist of Jeff Wincott and Michael Wincott ( signing of as "Laura www.runjikproductions.com", and along with shared declarations of owning the rights to and uploading the same Actor_Jeff_Wincott_at_Brooklyn_Film_Festival_June_6,_2021.jpg image to commons (noting also the reply) that was uploaded by User:Jeffwincott. The story being told by these users is enough to block on several different grounds, but I think that this venue is the only one that will deal with any connected IP edits. The IP edits dominate the revision history of Jeff Wincott after the last User:Jeffwincott edit (following their second COI warning), just as User:Jeffwincott's edits dominated the revision history of Jeff Wincott after User:Jeff wincott's last edit (following their COI, then Autobiography warning). Pabsoluterince (talk) 10:23, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Fair enough My worry is that the editing coming from those accounts has just moved to logged out IPs. This year 8 of the 6 IP editors have come from the same area (User:2601:14F:4400:65F0:64AE:5926:449D:A8FC, User:2601:14F:4400:65F0:A8C0:F8B9:CB47:8E9E, User:2601:14F:4400:65F0:1492:2077:E8EF:AAE, User:2601:14F:4400:65F0:0:0:0:C7BA, User:2601:14F:4400:65F0:5892:E8DD:5314:B983, User:2601:14F:4400:65F0:0:0:0:7043), and all been solely editing Jeff Wincott (albeit with very few edits). Thanks. Pabsoluterince (talk) 00:15, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

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 * This isn't a case for SPI - WP:COIN perhaps, but given that none of the accounts has edited for over a year, I don't think there's any on-going disruption that needs to be addressed. I'd suggest tidying up the article to remove anything else-serving or promotional, and then reporting if they come back and carry on editing the articles in question.  Girth Summit  (blether)  13:04, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * - those IPs are all from the same /64 range, so they are probably all the same person (many network providers assign individuals their own /64 to bounce around in). It's probably safe to assume that they are the same person behind the accounts. Nevertheless, there is no policy against editing while logged out if your account hasn't been sanctioned; I still think this is more of a COIN issue than an SPI one. Girth Summit  (blether)  05:51, 26 September 2022 (UTC)