Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jerry Z. Liu/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
This report concerns with the article conduction zone, an article explaining conduction theory. User:Jerry Z. Liu created this article.

On Aug 1, the article was tagged with PROD (see diff).

On Aug 2, User:Helenkallynature made their first edit in LK-99, a recent potential superconductor. Their first edit is over 4,400 characters, citing only one source written by someone named Jerry Z. Liu in real life (see diff). After about 15 hours, Helenkallynature started a new section on the talk page of conduction zone, titled "Do not see the urgency to delete this page" (see diff). They gave a positive review to the article and argued against deleting the article:


 * It is fascinating to explore alternative ideas. The concepts presented on this page resonate strongly with the mechanism employed in creating LK-99. It is crucial for people to be aware of the truth about nature. Why not give everyone the opportunity to read this page? Deleting it hastily raises questions about the motivations behind such an action.

On Aug 3, User:Mikemoorehu made their first edit on Wikipedia. It is to create another section on the talk page of conduction zone (see diff). It is a lengthy, 2,000-character review. About three hours later, User:Ravichandradeep made their first edit on Wikipedia to affirm the opinion of Mikemoorehu (see diff). Less than one hour later, Helenkallynature joins the discussion, asking How can we save this page? (see diff).

In the talk page of conduction zone, Mikemoorehu and Ravichandradeep then engaged in a lengthy discussion that continues to affirm the author's knowledge of physics (see Talk:Conduction_zone).

Some concluding words:
 * 1) Jerry Z. Liu has the incentive to make the following three sockpuppets to work against the deletion of the conduction zone article they created;
 * 2) The time of the first edits of these three accounts all happen after the article was tagged with PROD;
 * 3) Helenkallynature engaged in edits promoting the view of someone with the same real-life name as Jerry Z. Liu;
 * 4) The three accounts mostly contributed to the talk page of conduction zone to argue for its preservation.

These are all the evidences I collected at this point, and I am looking forward to the comments. -- TheLonelyPather (talk) 14:25, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.


 * I also noticed this rather clear sockpuppetry, but decided not to call for an investigation as the actions are quite harmless. The puppets managed to oppose the PROD, but the apparent puppeteer Jerry Z. Liu could have simply removed the PROD himself, so there was not much gain from using the puppets. The article Conduction zone will get removed after an AfD discussion, and I suspect the accounts will become inactive after that. They might participate in the AfD, but that does not matter since AfD is not a vote. I'm just saying that one should not use too much energy on this unless there is some development. Jähmefyysikko (talk) 15:02, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Jähmefyysikko. This is my first SPI complaint. I am still learning. Thank you very much for your input. -- TheLonelyPather (talk) 15:47, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
The following accounts are very obviously ✅ to each other: These accounts are also ✅ to each other, making them a match to the above group:

Done. Sorry about the slowness. There were a lot of unrelated users. Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:30, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 21:58, 8 August 2023 (UTC)