Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Larry Lawton/Archive

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Larry Lawton (the person) is an ex-jewel thief turned motivational speaker. On May 9 2010 User Larry_Lawton created his user page with the edit summary "starting my wiki". The text on the user page is highly promotional. This user spent 2010 to 2012 editing only the Larry Lawton page, their user page, with the only other edit to remove a mugshot from the Jim Greer page. Both Larry Lawton and Greer have co-authored books which have Peter Golenbock as the co-author. Greer was on the city council in Palm Bay in the 1990's and Lawton was active in that city during that time period and currently lives in the city. This suggests some kind of relationship between the two. So this user claims to be the real Larry Lawton and their edit history seems consistent with it.

User Effex100 created the Larry Lawton wikipedia article on July 30, 2010 using the same highly promotional text as on the Larry_Lawton user page. This user has only edited the Larry Lawton page or the Palm Bay, Florida page (where lawton lives) and stopped editing in 2012. I believe this user is also Larry Lawton.

In 2017, user Larryfl2007 created their account and only made edits to the Larry Lawton wikipedia article. Larry Lawton was released from prison in 2007 and lives in Florida so I believe this person is also Larry Lawton. Harizotoh9 (talk) 07:46, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

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 * These accounts haven't edited since 2013 and have been stale for over 8 years. Not only is checkuser not possible, but action isn't needed either. Closing SPI...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   08:00, 24 February 2021 (UTC)