Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MaynardClark/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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(MC) and (Veg) are the same editor. What alerted me to this were three edits today by MC to WikiProject Animal rights:. Veg edited 2/18/2007-10/26/2009, MC edited 5/4/2007 to today, overlapping 2½ years. Pretty much every page that Veg edited, MC has gone on to edit as well, as can be seen on their Interaction Timeline.

On User:Vegetarian, Veg claims he is Maynard S. Clark. Other tags to self include location, dates, and links to a google profile of himself.

On User:MaynardClark, MC claims the same name (Maynard S. Clark), same location, colleges/univs, a start date of 7/20/2007 which is only two days from Veg's 7/18/2007, but is NOT consistent with MC's editing start date of 5/4/2007. However, it does coincide with the date of Veg's own "outing". More detailed disclosure/promotion continues at User:MaynardClark/Wikipedia.

Lest you think this editor has abandoned the old Veg account, please note that MC continued to edit User:Vegetarian 68 more times since Veg's last edit in 2009, and did so just yesterday. Neither account's user page cross-links/discloses each account to the other; the only disclosure is to the same human (not wiki account). There is no such WP:SOCK on either user page. If Veg had really been abandoned in 2009 (due to someone calling out the editor, or the editor coming to his/her senses), then WP:CLEANSTART would apply, but 68 edits by MC to User:Vegetarian since Veg's last edit contradicts that hypothesis.

COI? Veg's first edit ( 2007-02-18T23:34:41) was to create a new page for his then boss, Leon Eisenberg. MC has gone on to make 313 more edits to the same article. Veg made an edit (at 2007-02-24T04:39:05 ) with an edit summary Created page with "I am adding links to Dr. Leon Eisenberg's research concepts, since I am his Assistant. —vegetarian" which has been deleted/redacted except for the edit summary. The current version of User:Vegetarian contains these two quotes: (1) Maynard S. Clark of Boston is employed by the Harvard Medical School of Boston and ... For roughly a decade he served as Faculty Assistant to the late Dr. Leon Eisenberg and (2) "[Maynard Clark] researched and archived the entire set of published writings of the late Professor Leon Eisenberg, MD, whom he had supported from 1999 through Dr. Eisenberg's death in 2009." MC even edited in a mention of himself with this edit into a different article covering a colleague of his. Normal Op (talk) 22:01, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * How do I comment? My goal is to use one account, MaynardClark, and not the other. I left the other account active because it shows that I had started editing earlier than the later account, which is what I currently use. Moving the MaynardClark accopunt UP to the date of starting on the WikiProject gives a more accurate DATE OF START for my work on that project (which account did I use for editing that project?). Shouldn't that be the question here? MaynardClark (talk) 22:11, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * Nothing to do here. The Vegeterian account hasn't been used in over a decade. Closing with no action. TonyBallioni (talk) 22:40, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you! MaynardClark (talk) 22:53, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Seriously, ? I've seen people blocked/banned because of a single edit with a second account. Did you even read what I wrote: no WP:SOCK, no WP:CLEANSTART, 2½ year overlap, edited yesterday? Did you read what MaynardClark wrote: "I left the other account active"? Normal Op (talk) 03:51, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
 * The supposed "sockpuppet" has been inactive for over a decade, and this was apparently disclosed voluntarily or else you wouldn't even have noticed it. We don't block people for stuff that happened ten years ago. ST47 (talk) 03:57, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
 * ST47’s response sums up my thoughts here as well. TonyBallioni (talk) 05:23, 26 July 2020 (UTC)