Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/McNulTEA/Archive

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McNulTEA was an WP:SPA focused on negative material about Steven Pinker, with a big part of that involving material associating him with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. McNulTEA was blocked at this AE report at 19:28, 28 August. A few hours later this account shows up. They proceeded to advocate on the talk page (the article is semiprotected) for lengthy, scandal-mongering text associating Pinker with Epstein. Even if CU is negative, I believe this would then be a case of WP:MEAT. Crossroads -talk- 01:26, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * Technically ❌, leaving open for ST47 (talk) 04:29, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * The timing of TEA's block and Carignan's account creation is certainly suspicious, and their writing styles seem similar as well. But Carignan's entire editing history is contained in a 15 minute span, at a time of day which is out of the ordinary for TEA.  Yeah, I suspect sock, but not enough to block just on the evidence available.  In any case, Carignan hasn't edited in a week, so it would be hard to justify a block as preventing ongoing disruption.  Closing with no action taken.  If they come back to life, we can always take another look. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:59, 8 September 2020 (UTC)