Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Phillip Mandeville/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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All but the last are entirely WP:SPA with new accounts that have at least the appearance of cycling through each account pushing material related to Randecker Maar Research Station that's often in WP:PUFFERY or WP:NOTRESUME or territory. The puffery language from some of these seems to hint possible at WP:COI related to the research group, though it could be a language issue. It's possible this could be a WP:MEAT issue instead (e.g., multiple people affiliated with the group).

Jeschken originally added a large amount of material to Decline in insect populations about a study from the research group that had to be pruned back, but refused to use the article talk page in response to asking them to work on focused edits.

After Jeschken, Phillip Mandeville then showed up as a new account edit warring and where their edit summary was deleted by SmartSE for personal attacks

After the Madeville account, Balteatus showed up at with personal attacks Article restored after over eager deleting and probably biased views. This is more or less vandalism with deletion of ecternal links and relevant information and similar blanket edit warring as the previous accounts.

Mandeville and Balteatus look like WP:DUCK, and Jeschken is a concern as being the first SPA account engaging in edit warring before the escalation of the other two.

A fourth I'm not so sure about is Yemenqat. They did engage in reverts in a similar manner, but had a few edits in 2012 & 2014 before reappearing solely to edit about this subject a little. They seem a little different than the other SPA accounts, so I only list them because the timing of reappearing seems odd with the other more obvious SPAs around. Kingofaces43 (talk) 16:55, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Moving SPI report under correct master.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   17:21, 7 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Also found and ✅:
 * All account indef'd and tagged. Leaving master for admin discretion.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   19:50, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
 * All account indef'd and tagged. Leaving master for admin discretion.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   19:50, 7 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Closing SPI report...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   19:00, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Normally first-time sockmasters get a less-than-indef block. Looking at their contributions on dewiki, they seem to be dedicated to promoting one topic (the Gatter family and their businesses).  I could look past that, but the personal attacks in edit comments (some of which have been revdel'd, such as this one) justify stronger measures.  Indef/tag master, closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:14, 10 December 2020 (UTC)