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27 July 2015

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There has been a rash of drafts/articles about studies by Brian Wansink of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, each created by a different SPA above: The pattern of activity gives the impression of an attempt to avoid detection or scrutiny. Investigation is needed to determine if these are sockpuppets, or if something else is going on, such as undeclared conflict of interest and off-wiki coordination to promote the work or viewpoint of this researcher or organization. Worldbruce (talk) 23:37, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
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Comments by other users
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 * I would definitely support a CheckUser because I'm not sure if it's Brian Wansink himself or also colleagues. I've encountered these articles at both NPP and AFD and some of them don't have much content and don't seem independently notable. Searches seem to confirm they are colleagues (see "Navika Gangrade" and the others are clearly actual names and they all seem originate from Cornell so this explains it. In any case, I have to compliment them with neat and sourced articles even if some of them may not be notable. SwisterTwister   talk  19:32, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The master is.
 * To the extent that the accounts are owned by different people, based on location and interest, they are clearly meat puppets. Some of the accounts may be socks of each other.  I will report on only those below. None of the groups is technically related to any of the other groups.
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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:38, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Came by while SPI patrolling and I want the 15 minutes back. This appears to be a course project or something like that. Before any blocks are issued I think some contact could be made to check on that, but I have no issues if the next patrolling admin overrules this judgment call. This is the about us section of the website of the organization, but it's more likely these are undergrads on an internship and trying to publish something here.&mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  17:51, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * The accounts have gone inactive and per 's observations, I'm closing this for now.