Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Meow2021/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Meow2021 was blocked last august for failure to disclose COI and promotional editing about an architect named Mario Kleff. Lots of IP socks seem to have been deployed at the related AFD. Since the block, Bongbon1988 (diff) and now CollinsSr (new draft) have continued the promotional efforts. I suspect sock puppetry to evade the block. MrOllie (talk) 02:52, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Closing with no action. Two of the three accounts mentioned here are stale, so no CU is possible.  Beyond that, the WP:TEA thread makes it clear that CollinsSr now has a better understanding of our WP:COI requirements and has stated their intent to learn more about WP:N.  So whether they are or are not a sock, I don't see any need for anything else to happen here. -- RoySmith (talk) 12:55, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
CollinsSr and Bongbong1988 have repeatedly re-inserted mentions of Mario Kleff into the Cellular beam article (Special:Diff/1085766597, Special:Diff/1052956679), which was created by Meow2021 (Special:Permalink/1025024450), who was blocked last year for UPE following extensive discussion at WP:COIN (permalink). CollinsSr has also attempted to re-create Draft:Mario Kleff (cf. ) and spam mentions of Mario Kleff into Book of Kells (Special:Diff/1085776362, cf. Special:Diff/1022893245, though the original mention wasn't added by Meow2021) and Custom motorcycle (Special:Diff/1085792039).

Designer Mario Kleff doesn't have edits on Enwiki, but is the Commons uploader of a photo used by CollinsSr and Meow2021. If a connection is confirmed, it would provide definitive evidence on top of the previous COI case that the users are indeed self-promotion by Mario Kleff. Paul_012 (talk) 14:01, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * CU - all accounts besides CollinsSr are stale. It seems clear that CollinsSr is a sock (or at best UPE WP:MEAT) based on their restoration of Meow2021's edits and singular focus on promoting Mario Kleff. I'm aware that a previous SPI case against this user was closed on the basis that they intended to abide by COI policies, but since they have continued to engage in inappropriate promotional editing, I think a block is in order now.  - please indef CollinsSr as a suspected sock. The other two accounts have not been used on the English Wikipedia in several months so there is not much point in blocking them now - you can re-report if they start editing again. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 18:30, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
 * -- Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 21:43, 10 May 2022 (UTC)