Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nfoster03/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Same type of edits across same articles, adding promotional material from company announcements. Pattern of indistinguishable editing on Nextdoor and Square, Inc.. Dennis Bratland (talk) 08:05, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

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Hi there. The 07:12 4 March 2021 edit from an IP address was me. I did not know I had logged out. I didn't post it to try to make it appear anonymous.

My own interpretation of the content I added to the Nextdoor Wikipedia page does not feel much different from so much of what I've seen on other company pages, which are mainly lists of things they've launched and announced. Lyft's History section is a good example here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyft#History

I thought I was following fairly common company news practice. Thanks for reading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nfoster03 (talk • contribs) 08:19, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Update from Nfoster03: I now understand what this is about, my apologies as I am not a power editor or user and I didn't understand the issue at first. I used Nfoster03 several years ago. I wanted to participate again, but I could not remember my old password, so I created a new account (Gmr77). As you can see from my edit timeline, after a few days I remembered my original login's password. I am happy to now delete the old account to avoid this two-account issue. Thank you for your understanding. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nfoster03 (talk • contribs) 08:48, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * In light of the user's disclosure above, I'm closing this case with no action. I will be leaving a message on both accounts' talk pages requesting that the user choose one account or the other. Mz7 (talk) 17:53, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

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Obvious pattern of promotional, press release, and corporate PR edits to Nextdoor and other articles. Apparently a paid editor doing undeclared COI editing. See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nextdoor&action=history Dennis Bratland (talk) 01:07, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

CORRECTION: The oldest sockmaster appears to be. Please merge to Sockpuppet investigations/Nfoster03. My bad. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 01:16, 13 March 2021 (UTC) ]]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

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 * Really not seeing enough here to block, and most of these are inactive now anyway. Closing. – bradv  🍁  04:36, 15 April 2021 (UTC)