Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Markus1463/Archive

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Stunningly large cluster of WP:SPA accounts which exist only to edit Alex Deans, including the arbitrary removal of any maintenance templates that established users have flagged the article with. (For instance, the sourcing is fully 66 per cent corporate press releases, in defiance of WP:PRIMARYSOURCES — but two of the editors listed here have no other edit history besides removing the primary sources template on the basis of their own personal decree that there aren't any primary sources in the article.) This is almost certainly puppetry of either the sock or meat varieties — and with 15 participants so far, it's already one of the largest and most blatant puppetry campaigns I've ever personally witnessed. I should note, for the record, that two of the accounts have already been blocked for having the -bot suffix at the end of their username; they should still probably be checked against the others as possible puppets nonetheless. Bearcat (talk) 17:19, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Also Perennial2445, a user registered on Commons (but not on en) whose only contributions have been to upload a whole bunch of Deans' PR-kit photographs for the article's "media" gallery — possibly under false licensing, as I can't find any indication on Deans' website that the photographs were under a CC license. Bearcat (talk) 18:10, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

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 * All the listed puppets are ✅ to plus:
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:33, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh, gawd. It would be the one username I opted not to include in the investigation because it had a larger edit history than the others, wouldn't it? (*headdesk*) Bearcat (talk) 23:55, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh, gawd. It would be the one username I opted not to include in the investigation because it had a larger edit history than the others, wouldn't it? (*headdesk*) Bearcat (talk) 23:55, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Another day, another new user arguing with established editors that Alex Deans meets GNG. This account isn't quite as single purpose as the past socks, but I find the similarities here, here, and here to be too suspicious. Sro23 (talk) 21:19, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:50, 6 August 2016 (UTC)