Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/JohnEventide/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Potentially using multiple accounts to vote at Articles for deletion/Charles L. Venable. Requesting CU to check whether they are the same person. 0x Deadbeef 03:21, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * As noted at WP:COIN, single-purpose account Special:Contributions/Martinwebb reverted (without edit summary) User:Cerebral726's removal of POV content from the Venable article, originally added by User:Candied tangerine: . Note also the similarity to the username Martini3202 above. Storchy (talk) 19:26, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * regarding your question below to TBOTNL, not meaning to put words in TBOTNL's mouth, but LillyEnd1937 was likely spamblocked for activity related to the Lilly Endowment (founded 1937), as a Google search for "Lilly Endowment" along with either "Charles Venable" or "Martin Webb" (or both) turns up some interesting connections.
 * I overlooked LillyEnd1937's re-addition of the unsourced birth date in . Storchy (talk) 13:57, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, someone pointed the connection out in a UAA report, so I blocked because it was clearly violating WP:CORPNAME. I have no other connection to this situation, so no judgment on any other accounts here. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 15:24, 30 May 2022 (UTC)


 * new single-purpose account has added yet another "delete" vote at the AFD, with strong similarities to the previous five accounts' edits there.  Storchy (talk) 05:35, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - there is some socking going on here.
 * is ✅ to.
 * is no more than to the above - similar geographic location, but technically there's nothing more than that to connect them.
 * is ✅ to, who is spamublocked (which I don't quite understand - Blade, can you shed any northern light on that?).
 * is also to the above, again being in a different part of the same large country.
 * I'm placing this on hold because there's something else I see in the CU data, which I want to discuss with other CUs before taking action.  Girth Summit  (blether)  13:34, 30 May 2022 (UTC)


 * I would not be surprised if is connected to this farm.  It's a long time ago, but their edits sure look like somebody hired to promote Speed Art Museum and/or Charles L. Venable, including edits like Special:Diff/550237264, grooming negative coverage from the article. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:03, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * OK - I've blocked the confirmed accounts. Two were clearly created by the same person to improperly influence the discussion; LillyEnd1937 was created by Martinwebb after they had been warned about COI issues, and was used to edit the same article they had been warned about. I would be surprised if the non-confirmed accounts had not been canvassed to the AfD discussion in some way, but the closer will take that into account. Slothstalk may well be related, but since they haven't edited in nearly ten years I don't see any point in blocking. Closing. Girth Summit  (blether)  10:18, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Moved case to JohnEventide as Candied tangerine is not blocked. Archiving. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 15:15, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
This user came up in Articles for deletion/Charles L. Venable after JohnEventide and BobRoberts555 were blocked for sockpuppetry, and for whose edit histories are a single edit to the page.  Mario Jump  83!  23:35, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 14:36, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
 * The CU data says ❌ or at best, . I agree that it's almost certain that the AfD was tainted by canvassing and/or socking, but given that it has been closed, it seems pointless (and contrary to WP:BLOCKP) to continue to invest electrons on this. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:44, 5 June 2022 (UTC)