Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lovemjseo/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Master is a single-purpose account who focused solely on content relating to Peter Schiff, an American businessman. The account was created on 6 December 2023 and its first edit was to introduce material from a court judgement favorable to Schiff into his BLP and its second was to perform a minor update on the business activities of the individual.

On December 20, two weeks after creating their account, the master went on a tear by making a flurry of edits to the article that named (among other people) a certain "Nick McKenzie" as someone who had been found to have defamed the article subject. (As it turns out, McKenzie has an article about himself on Wikipedia, and the master made several edits to the entry on McKenzie emphasizing the Australian verdict, but let's put that aside for now).

Eight hours after the master made edits to the entry about Schiff, the edits were reverted on December 21. Afterwards, the IP edited the page and proceeded to re-introduce much of the language that the master had inserted, including explicit mentions of McKenzie and specific language related to the verdict. After the IP's edits were reverted, the master proceded to edit war to restore the version of the article that the IP had written (A B C). The IP also had inserted related material at our entry about McKenzie. As such, I suspect that the master may be connected to the IP.

The master, of course, was indefinitely blocked on the morning of December 21 after edit warring. Five hours later, sock makes their first edit in over nine years, partly restoring the language that the IP had added to McKenzie's article after it had been reverted. The next day, on 22 December, the user opened a discussion on the talk page of Peter Schiff complaining about the same content that the master had tried to modify. After making several more comments on the talk page, the sock rewrote the section on the investigation, again restoring an explicit reference to McKenzie. Likewise, the sock restored content to McKenzie's article that said that Nine Network had "lost" a defamation case that they had settled, using the same verbiage as the aforementioned IP. And, like the master, the sock has resorted to edit warring in order to get their way on these articles (see: 1 2 3 4a 4b 5 6).

For these reasons, I suspect that there may be some connection between the master and the sock account. I am requesting that a checkuser investigate this to see if there is any technical evidence of a connection or, barring that, if there is evidence of proxy (ab)use by either the master or sock. — Red-tailed hawk  (nest) 03:31, 17 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Pinging, whom I had consulted with on this. I'll also note that the master account ends in "seo", which if meaning Search engine optimization may point to something bigger with respect to WP:COI/WP:UPE. — Red-tailed hawk  (nest) 03:33, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Alright. Thank you for taking the time to look at this. — Red-tailed hawk  (nest) 05:49, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Lovemjseo and Mkstokes appear to be, though I did pick up User:Shunuwiki as a sleeper of Lovemjseo. I haven't marked this as checked because I would encourage another more experienced CU to look behind me in case there's something I'm overlooking, but from a purely technical aspect I do not see a connection between the two accounts. - Aoidh (talk) 12:29, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I'd go so far as to call the two accounts entirely ❌ from a technical perspective (there is, as always, the residual possibility of undetected proxy use, but I'm not seeing it). Didn't go out of my way to sleeper check these, but I don't see any additional accounts. . --Blablubbs (talk) 16:36, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for checking behind me, I agree with them being ❌, but I have to confess I used unlikely because that was the most relevant option I saw from the options via responseHelper; I guess spihelper is more useful for SPIs, which I'll keep in mind moving forward. - Aoidh (talk) 21:18, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
 * IP hasn't edited in months, closing. Spicy (talk) 18:10, 4 March 2024 (UTC)