Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/LaurenVB12/Archive

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Both accounts and both IPs are singularly focused on promoting one author, Orna Gadish. Similar behavior includes shoehorning references to this author's books into various articles and the consistent addition of links to Amazon sales pages in those references. Although this kind of self-promotion/COI is common, the use of multiple accounts and IPs seems to be aimed at avoiding detection. Deli nk (talk) 14:05, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Overlapping promotional interests suggest sockpuppetry may be possible here. Please check the named accounts to confirm. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:19, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Putting this on hold temporarily to ask a question on the CU list. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 21:54, 5 November 2017 (UTC)


 * and are ✅ to each other.  Compared to them,  is somewhere between  and  when all the evidence is considered, but she's in a much different location.  If not sock puppetry, I think it's likely this is at least meat puppetry designed to promote the author, so I'm indefinitely blocking all the logged-in accounts. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 12:17, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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As with previous sock/meatpuppets, two more single purpose accounts with a sole interest in Orna Gadish and Articles for deletion/Orna Gadish. Deli nk (talk) 16:24, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * - This is obvious enough to not require CU attention. Please block the new socks indefinitely. Sir Sputnik (talk) 20:36, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * , closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 23:13, 10 November 2017 (UTC)