Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/NicolePunch/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
A series of WP:SPA accounts making promotional edits to three connected articles: Legal & General, Nigel Wilson (businessman) and António Simões (executive). Requesting CU as at least two of them have edited fairly recently. There are probably more of these, pinging who has been watching those pages with a close eye. NB Legal & General appears to be linked in some way to a marketing/advertising company called Punch Communications, so this may also be long-term WP:UPE. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:51, 15 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for alerting me. Dormskirk (talk) 21:32, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Details of identical or near identical edits being made by these users...
 * NicolePunch:
 * IP address 81.79.176.55 (2 minutes before NicolePunch made an edit on the same article):
 * Lubham13:
 * JordanCox01
 * All of the other edits by these users seem to have a similar agenda (and have almost universally been quickly reverted by other users), as do those of SteelCirculator and the following 2 earlier edits:
 * See also this very recent IP address (81.144.179.114) edit which attempted to implement material that had previously been declined to be included on the Legal & General article (for promo reasons) following an edit request by Lubham13. Axad12 (talk) 14:53, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
 * The IP address mentioned directly above (81.144.179.144 ) has previously made edits directly before user NicoleReuthePunch, and would appear to be that user's logged out address.
 * Similarly, IP address 86.1.201.30 would appear to be the logged out address of user JordanCox01. Axad12 (talk) 12:40, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Of the accounts that are not :
 * created the sleeper
 * is to the above two accounts.
 * The activity appears to have died down while this sat in SPI purgatory (sorry about that). I'll leave it for a clerk to review the stale and IP info to decide on blocks.-- Ponyo bons mots 21:33, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Lubham13 has added a paid editing disclosure on their userpage after being warned and appears to be trying to do things by-the-book, so I'm leaving that account alone for now. Adamsmith10 has no edits, so I'll hold off on any sanctions until there's something to look at. JordanCox01 indefinitely blocked as an advertising-only account. The remaining IPs and accounts are too stale to take action on. .  The Wordsmith Talk to me 01:14, 9 April 2024 (UTC)