Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/KarlJacobi/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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For behavioral evidence and confirmation of the connection by a CU, see here. The editing of articles by this person seems constructive (although their interactions with other users have been uncollegial/uncollaborative), and their use of socks does not appear to be intentionally disruptive -- indeed, it's hard to figure out what the point possibly could be. Per 's advice, I am hoping that someone will take a look at this and decide which if any of these accounts should be blocked, and whether any of their behavior amounts to abuse of multiple accounts. Also pinging who has interacted with this person at Tau function (integrable systems), in case they have any insights to share. JBL (talk) 15:55, 17 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Update: Added J.Kepler, who is again obviously the same person (same format of username, same format of userpage, heavily overlapping editing interests (at Plücker embedding and integrable system, interspersed with edits from the master account), plus the fact that it became active immediately after the master was queried about this behavior). Given the lack of responsiveness and the continuing editing from multiple accounts after warnings, I request that administrators enforce a one-account limit via blocks. --JBL (talk) 17:49, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Huh. Yeah, I didn't really expect them to make all these accounts ship-shape even after clearly being advised to, based on the attitude displayed so far. I think they have every intention of producing a good article, but just don't give a toss about our account rules (or being very collaborative). A clear message-by-admin that WP is not set up to run half a dozen "tribute" accounts that masquerade as independent editors may be all that's needed. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:12, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
said it well. Yes, Wikipedia is not the place to have a whole bunch of tribute accounts run by the same person (which is undeniable, given tone and content), especially not if they're working in the same field. For roleplaying, there's Dungeons and Dragons. I blocked them all except for Karl Jacobi, who, if they like, can go on to prove they want to be a positive here. Drmies (talk) 02:18, 24 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Closing, all but the master are blocked. Intentionally leaving untagged, this was disruptive use of multiple accounts but not really deceptive so I don't see a need for the mark of shame at this time. GeneralNotability (talk) 14:17, 5 February 2021 (UTC)