Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nrudow/Archive

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All of these accounts created fairly well-formed drafts about breweries in Missoula, Montana, all in the same minute (21:22, May 1, 2018 (UTC)), and all of these accounts were created within minutes of each other. (Nrudow is the oldest by a minute.)


 * Nrudow: Draft:Imagine Nation Brewing Co.
 * Twincities34: Draft:Great Burn Brewing Company
 * GivesFalseInfo15: Draft:Rattlesnake Creek Distillers
 * Mfernandes96: Draft:KettleHouse Brewing Company

Pinging, who pointed these accounts out on IRC. There is possibly WP:MEAT going on here. Requesting checkuser to see if this might be related to a particular master. Mz7 (talk) 23:47, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Update: Added History121, Dreed3433, Mb106021, Aoshk87, and Gergesm111 to the list. I found these accounts because History121 edited all of their drafts, plus some of the original ones I found, which all relate to breweries in Minnesota. History121 is technically the oldest account now, so this may need to be moved to Sockpuppet investigations/History121. Mz7 (talk) 09:57, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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All accounts were created for a University class by separate people who had the final project of researching and documenting Missoula breweries and the final project was to create a wikipedia page for each groups respective breweries. Each account is run by an unique person. Each persons research was unique to their own and consisted of an hour long interview with thorough research on available newspaper articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Twincities34 (talk • contribs) 04:49, May 4, 2018 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
I have no idea of the accounts involved, but if there was a page for a brewery in Missoula it is likely that it was made for the class.
 * Now that we have the above information that the accounts are linked, I suppose checkuser is no longer necessary. Do you think you could disclose the name of the university and your professor so that we could verify? Normally, when educational courses affect Wikipedia content, the course staff should let the editing community know in some way so that we can avoid problems like this (e.g. having students disclose they are part of a course on their user page), so I would like to make sure this can be avoided in the future. Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 09:46, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Could we please also get a list of the usernames of all accounts associated with this project? Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 09:57, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm inclined to close this with no action. It doesn't seem like the accounts are causing disruption enough to warrant blocks. Mz7 (talk) 04:53, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Closing. Mz7 (talk) 02:18, 16 May 2018 (UTC)