Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jkomlos/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Strong topical overlap in almost all edited articles. See John Komlos, History of anthropometry and especially Antebellum Puzzle (created by JHKomlos just 4 days ago, and already edited by JHCorrado). Most of their edits focus on cite spamming of publications from John Komlos, promoting his theories, and polishing the author's (auto)biography. Also, the last user (JHCorrado) was created just 1 day after I warned User:JHKomlos about Wikipedia's COI guidelines on User talk:JHKomlos. Of course sometimes editors simply forget a password, but especially the last new account looks more like an effort to avoid scrutiny and to ignore past warnings and history - the first account Jkomlos was briefly blocked for promotional editing, so the user is well aware of the issue. GermanJoe (talk) 21:35, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
JHCorrado is ✅ to JHKomlos. Jkomlos is using a different device on the same ISP in the same vicinity making them to the other two. Residential static IPv4 line with associated /64 IPv6 looks likely.

Stale: — Berean Hunter   (talk)  17:20, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Socks indeffed, master blocked for a week. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  20:26, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Account has been dormant for 4 years, and never made a mainspace edit before (aside from a hidden deleted page in 2014). Shortly after User:Jkomlos gets in trouble for socking and promotional editing, this account starts cite spamming Komlos' publications to several articles (mostly in articles where I just recently removed Komlos-related cite spam such as Humanistic economics or Pluralism in economics). Admittedly this might be just another fan and/or student of Komlos - but the timing, topical overlap and continuing promotional editing solely focussing on Komlos seem very odd. GermanJoe (talk) 03:14, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

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This and this are diffs. The users are editing in a similar way on the same subjects although the master hasn’t edited in a while and isn’t blocked; they were never editing at the same time. Although the master has been in trouble, it’s hard to say, a CheckUser may be needed.  IWI  ( chat ) 14:36, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
❌ and on complete opposite sides of the world. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  11:25, 10 January 2019 (UTC)