Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lakerunr/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Single-purpose account Lakrunr has been involved in editing James M. Honeycutt, and his theory Imagined interaction, and has exclusively worked on them since 2007.

MB and DragonflySixtyseven noticed this and cut out parts and placed a COI notice.

As his first action, Tpmadison removes that notice (multiple times), stating Removed [Multiple Issues] because I have fixed the issue (despite that being his first edit, so unsure how he "fixed the issue"), and objects to COI tag removal on Dragonfly's talk.

I've also put those two pages into AfD and raise the possibility that this (or other) socks may object to deletion. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 18:36, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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As far as I'm concerned, it's almost certain that the two are acting together, so I'm good with treating this as a sockpuppet case. Endorsing CU, I'd like to check whether this is meatpuppetry or sockpuppetry. Either way there are going to be blocks here, it's just a question of what kind of blocks they'll be. GeneralNotability (talk) 18:52, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * - My thinking here:
 * Lakerunr is likely Honeycutt himself, based on how single-purpose they have been about editing these articles and how they uploaded a picture of him which they apparently took. (Also, Honeycutt's faculty webpage literally links his Wikipedia page as "Biography"). If Lakerunr is indeed Honeycutt, that's a significant undisclosed COI issue.
 * Tpmadison is probably a meatpuppet rather than a sockpuppet - Imagined interaction lists a paper which had Honeycutt and one "Madison, T.P." as co-authors.
 * ❌. Location data does not support the likelihood of the two users being meat puppets. Very nicely done CU endorsement.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:19, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Close per the above. The SandDoctor  Talk 04:23, 19 June 2020 (UTC)