Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Pmpierce/Archive

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The first of these accounts has exclusively edited the Naomi Wolf wikipedia page subsequent to the controversy surrounding her incorrect use of historical archives from the Old Bailey Online website, and appears to have been first set up at that time in order to make those edits. Furthermore these edits have been exclusively positive, and where they have not involved the 'controversy' page they appear to have focused on personal information that might be of particular significance to Wolf or someone close to her. When the first one of these accounts stopped editing the Naomi Wolf wikipedia page, the second one immediately took up the baton, around three hours later. This second account (Pmpierce) has the same name (Pierce) as Wolf's husband's detective agency. Furthermore, while it has edited pages before on wikipedia, the last set of edits were all on the 22 of January 2019 and involved editing pages about Naomi Wolf's husband, attempting to have him included on the disambiguation page for Brian O'Shea (despite his lack of noteworthiness) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brian_O%27Shea&type=revision&diff=883456823&oldid=879584694 or including his name on Naomi Wolf's page as her new husband. The quality of their edits have been remarkably bad: in particular the final paragraph added to the 'Controversy' section of Wolf's page, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naomi_Wolf&type=revision&diff=901213747&oldid=901194622 a paragraph that functions almost entirely as an apologia for Wolf. The rest of the edits by the Transparency581 account seem particularly concerned with either defending Wolf against the charges of Matthew Sweet, or explicitly attacking Sweet and his challenge to Wolf's scholarly rectitude https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naomi_Wolf&type=revision&diff=901194622&oldid=901013488 Therebours (talk) 18:53, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

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 * I don't think so. There's simply no reason to have created an alternate account on May 29th, four months after Pmpierce's last activity. There are a few other key behavioral differences as well. They might both have a COI, but I don't think there's evidence of being socks. ST47 (talk) 22:08, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Close per ST47's comments. Bbb23 (talk) 15:55, 19 July 2019 (UTC)