Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lhowarth234/Archive

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Lhowarth234 is very likely to be Lee Howarth – Group Chief Sales Office of HeiQ. He has repeatedly spammed the article, replacing all the various concern templates and existing references with an obvious corporate puff-piece. Having been caught out he has edited the article as an IP editor then gone as himself again to "finish the job". I'm confident this is very much like a duck hence I haven't ticked the CheckUser box 10mmsocket (talk) 13:49, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

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The IP address mentioned is one of several single-purpose IP addresses which have been adding the same kind of spam to the article recently. They geolocate to several different countries, but their editing is so similar that I am confident that it's actually all from the same source, probably using some kind of proxy, VPN, or whatever. Since blocking individual IP addresses is unlikely to be helpful in dealing with a spammer who IP-hops to different countries, I have semi-protected the article for two months. That can be extended if necessary, but let's hope it won't be. (Incidentally,, ticking the CheckUser box wouldn't have done anything, because CheckUsers won't connect an IP address to a named account, for privacy reasons. Asking for CheckUser is useful only if you are dealing with more than one named account.) JBW (talk) 16:24, 3 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Noted - good to know, thank you. 10mmsocket (talk) 17:03, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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LizaHowarth has a similar username to Lhowarth234 and is also a SPA focused on HeiQ Materials AG. Their account was created few days after the master's block and immediately began editing on HeiQ. Pahunkat (talk) 11:26, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 13:12, 16 August 2021 (UTC)