Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Macklevine/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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The editor User:Macklevine was recently found to be editing with a conflict of interest over a period of almost 10 years and was recently asked to no longer edit any articles where such a conflict of interest exists. A recent edit by this editor made to Black Seeds: The History of Africans in America was reverted and they were again asked to request edits via the article talk page. Today, a new account, User:KoraResearch was created and made similar edits to the Black Seeds: The History of Africans in America article backed by unreliable sources. A closer look into the organisation of Kora Research shows Bayer Mack as a director of this organisation. It is believed this editor may be using sock puppet accounts to bypass requesting edits and to continue editing articles where a COI exists directly. has since posted a comment to their talk page confirming they were contacted by Mr Mack, the operator of the account. Longhair\talk 09:46, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

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✅, entirely unambiguous. I'll go tag and reblock the accounts. --Yamla (talk) 10:43, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Closing. Mz7 (talk) 07:01, 28 August 2021 (UTC)