Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mary McRaven/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * Using the 98.x account, they made multiple, very specific changes to the BLP page for William H. McRaven, in which they changed the name of his wife to "Mary Katherine Wojtyla-McRaven".


 * After being reverted, they created the "Mary McRaven" account, and again made a series of edits to the William McRaven page, making the same changes.


 * After being revereted again, they alternated using the Mary account and the 205.x account, to again make the same changes.


 * Several notices and warnings were posted to User talk:Mary McRaven, to which they responded with various nonsesical posts, (eg; that William McRaven is an Irish-born king and brother-in-law to "Dave Wojtyla", aka Dave Bautista. They also went on to copy/paste the entire McRaven BLP to their talk page.) Shortly after a third warning, they replied "I will not be disrupting McRaven anymore".


 * Yet just a few days later, using the 76.x account they did just that by again making a series of edits to the McRaven BLP to again make the same changes.


 * Notes;
 * William McRaven is a still-living, US-born, retired US Navy Admiral, and there is no indication through Google searches that any of these edits has any veracity.
 * All the IP addresses are based in the same area of California.
 * I have requested protection for the McRaven BLP page.
 * Thanks - w o lf  22:56, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Indefinitely blocked the named account, and blocked the 76. IP, the only one who's been editing recently, for 3 days. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 13:14, 22 September 2023 (UTC)