Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Judge1234/Archive

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This seems to be a case of using alternate user accounts to evade a block (blocked user = Judge1234). Only User SanDiego2003 is currently active; however, it appears that this blocked individual (Judge1234) has a long history of using other user accounts to add promotional material to pages related to Kuo-Chen Chou. On his user page, SanDiego2003 claims to be "a sabbatical professor with the Gordon Life Science Institute", an organization that was started by Kuo-Chen Chou. User Wzzhong43 also claims to be affiliated with this institute:

All four of these users seem to exist only to promote Kuo-Chen Chou's content. Here is a clear recent example of SanDiego2003 editing the Kuo-Chen Chou page:. He has basically reverted the page to the version by Wzzhong:. The page was edited substantially by user Judge1234, who has been blocked for his promotion of this individual  User Low-frequency internal also has a long history of adding promotional material to entries related to Kuo-Chen Chou  and there are warnings on his talk page to cease this behaviour.

At a minimum SanDiego2003 should be blocked as a sockpuppet/meatpuppet of blocked user Judge1234; their activity on the Kuo-Chen Chou article is separated by only 11 days. If this is not Kuo-Chen Chou himself (and there is reason from outside Wikipedia to believe that it is), it is certainly someone closely related to him as at least two of these four users have declared COI but continue to edit his page. Bueller 007 (talk) 22:39, 1 February 2020 (UTC) Bueller 007


 * Since this SPI case was opened, user SanDiego2003 has again reverted the page to add inappropriate or misleading self-congratulatory material despite having been warned on his talk page not to edit because of the COI: Persistent self-promotional edits, just as in the case of Judge1234. Bueller 007 (talk) 13:04, 3 February 2020 (UTC)


 * As further evidence, the individual in question (Kuo-Chen Chou) has been known to inappropriately use a sockpuppet/pseudonym himself, and that article suggests that he may have invented identities at Gordon Life Science Institute, with which SanDiego2003 and Wzzhong43 claim to be affiliated. Bueller 007 (talk) 05:51, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

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 * Low-frequency internal is . Judge1234, SanDiego2003, and Wzzhong43 are ✅. ST47 (talk) 18:52, 1 March 2020 (UTC)