Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Northernlapwing/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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WP:REFSPAM - multiple additions of papers by Gregory Anderson, accounts all registered the same day. Guy (help! - typo?) 00:29, 24 August 2020 (UTC) Guy (help! - typo?) 00:29, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * , a bit more has come to light in this discussion on my talk page. These users are related, but I believe they were all acting in good faith. – Uanfala (talk) 21:07, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * There's something...odd...going on here. Definitely refspamming, but there's also some bizarre citations getting added (for example, Special:Diff/974433117 cites a linguistic change to a paper on asthma). Endorsed for sleeper check, I expect there's more accounts to be found here. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:38, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , this could be user:Japanelemu? Guy (help! - typo?) 00:51, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , yeah, I saw their socks in the histories of a couple of articles. I'm not especially familiar with that case, but from skimming the contribs of known socks I don't think they're related - this sneaky refspam doesn't look like their style. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:56, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Checkuser is no help here, they are ❌. ST47 (talk) 04:55, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, that's an unexpected result. I believe that these accounts are working together deceptively, so I've renamed the case to the oldest account, and I'm leaving them blocked and tagging all of them. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:37, 24 August 2020 (UTC)