Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MarcelS789/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets


Edits at Michael Gastauer and WB21. See COI report -- samtar talk or stalk 11:06, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
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 * Added Sajithvs88. New account whose first contribution was to make a null edit request at Talk:Michael Gastauer just after page got protected and other socks got blocked.  I'm hearing something that sounds suspiciously like a quack.   Murph 9000  (talk) 13:02, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Added Subineditor 123, which has only edited these two articles.  Murph 9000  (talk) 13:23, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Added the possibly related IPs which have been following a similar pattern of edits.  Murph 9000  (talk) 13:32, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

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- this smells strongly of organized paid PR editing. Sajithvs88 has only edited the talk pages of the two protected articles. I suspect multiple users here, but can we check for sleepers? Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:05, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ =, but otherwise no other connections can be made.  and  are . Suggest looking more closely at behavioural aspect of the accounts. . - Mailer Diablo 04:48, 15 October 2016 (UTC)


 * since the pages have been deleted I can't see the unblocked editors' contribs now, but assuming that means their only edits were to the deleted articles that seems a pretty good sign of coordinated COI meatpuppetry. However, I can't request a block on the basis of edits I can only guess at; if a passing admin would like to take a look that's up to them. MarcelS789 is the oldest of the accounts: I will move this and tag the accounts. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:58, 1 November 2016 (UTC)