Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Modulato/Archive

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The vast majority of the edits are related to the University of the People article and its related talk page.
 * 37.* IPs are from the same Italian ISP. 151.* IPs are from a second Italian ISP. Modulato regularly edits English pages of Italian entities. The IP edits rarely make more than a handful of edits/reverts.
 * 37.161.151.195 reverted another editor's removal of such edits by a long-term editor. 37.162.171.144 did the same. 37.163.133.86 did as well. This is something Modulato has engaged in repeatedly.
 * 151.37.184.120 added a source which Modulato has reverted. 151.37.184.174 added an edit which relied on 151.37.184.120's source.
 * 151.43.216.11 introduced an edit about the "lack of professors." This edit was removed by several editors. But the latter edits were subsequently reverted by 151.35.174.252, 151.47.69.26, 151.57.217.233, and 151.47.48.101. The verbiage reflects Modulato's recent claim on the talk page that UoPeople is "a university with no active professors".
 * Modulato talks about UoPeople and a PO Box on the talk page. This is something 37.163.242.108 does on the talk page as well. This is something which appears in 37.161.62.229's edits.
 * The edit by 37.161.62.229 just above mentioned "headquartered in." This is similar to Modulato on the talk page talking about "located in." And it also ties back to older edits by 37.160.55.58 and 37.162.55.219.
 * There is also an edit from 37.160.0.173 about business school/programmatic accreditation which has recently come up from Modulato on the talk page.
 * If we continue back, we find Adrin10 who has a history of reverting edits by the same long-term editor previously mentioned. Adrin10 has made edits related to PO Boxes and taking issue with the school being located in Pasadena, CA. Again, that is something Modulato has been doing recently.
 * Adrin10 has a history editing some of the same pages as Modulato including Italian universities, but the account appears inactive since 2018. WriteWithPencils (talk) 19:12, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

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 * Well. I'm not going to do anything with Adrin10, they haven't edited in two years and have no temporal overlap with Modulato, so even if they aren't the same person this isn't sockpuppetry. Likewise, the IPs are not themselves engaged in sockpuppetry, they're one or more editors on a dynamic IP (looks like a mobile ISP and a residential ISP). The question here is whether Modulato is editing logged-out as various IPs, and I do not believe the behavioral evidence is strong enough to support that. Meatpuppetry is (as usual) a possibility, but I don't see strong enough evidence of disruptive/deceptive collaboration to merit a block on those grounds. Closed without action. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:51, 7 February 2021 (UTC)