Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Michael Valerian/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
I do not think that this is the original account, but it seems to be the most recent that I know of. Anyway, after raising concerns with paid editing regarding the article Amanda K. Morales which was created by User:Michael Valerian, we have a series of new (or almost new) accounts working to edit the article. Other than User:EasyEditorNAD, (who had made two edits to another article previously), all are brand new editors, who use near-identical edit summaries, and in several cases seem inclined to add the same image uploaded to Commons by User:Michael Valerian I'd suggest that a CU is probably warranted, because if this is a paid editor I have reason to suspect that this may not be their first article, nor their first accounts.

In regard to the edit summaries:


 * User:Mr.chikala - "I made changes to the writing tone, grammar and added some wikilinks"
 * User:ERICwritter - "I added an image"
 * User:Chipuba-Chakwe - "I made some changes on the Biography specifically focusing on writing style and of course adding some wikilins"
 * User:Fuseki.Ms - "I made some editing to the career, improving the grammar and also the wikilinks I added some"
 * User:EasyEditorNAD - "I cleaned up the article and added several wikilinks"
 * User:Michael Valerian - "I added wiklinks and split long paragraphs"

Bilby (talk) 11:59, 17 June 2024 (UTC) Bilby (talk) 11:59, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
 * In case there is any doubt, I notice that at least five of these accounts: Michael Valerian, Mr.chikala, EasyEditorNAD, ERICwritter and Fuseki.Ms - have all just edited Peter Wall (Journalist and Entrepreneur). - Bilby (talk) 14:19, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * They're all ✅ to one another, that's for sure. I don't see any other accounts on the IPs they're using, but they're jumping about a bunch of different fairly wide ranges so it's hard to say for certain. Blocking them all anyway - there's no good-faith reason I can think of to have so many accounts, all editing the same articles.  Girth Summit  (blether)  14:47, 17 June 2024 (UTC)