Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Prestonwood/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Prestonwood Baptist Church is the article for a church that has gotten a fair amount of news coverage for various scandals; the article has also been edited by an account with a declared COI,, and by an WP:SPA,. Both users only edit Prestonwood Baptist Church and related articles (Jack Graham (pastor), for its pastor), and both edits largely consist of removing potentially negative material, often with no explanation or with essentially identical explanations. (eg. ) The Prestonwood account has said that they are the only official account of the church, emphasis mine, which makes me believe that the person who ran the account may have created additional "unofficial" accounts to avoid the restrictions of a COI once they learned of the relevant policy.

It is possible that this is a WP:MEAT situation instead, but if so then they've clearly coordinated to the point where it doesn't make a difference. Note that most of the edits referenced here are fairly old, with only the Dirkmavs account having recent edits; but they do appear to be the sock of an account with a declared COI used to evade that COI, and in any case have clearly attempted to create the appearance that these accounts are independent. There are a few other edits / accounts that may also be socks, but they are largely stale. --Aquillion (talk) 18:58, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Based on the evidence this does look like someone with a COI using multiple accounts to evade scrutiny. - please block Prestonwood indefinitely (they should have been blocked for the username anyway) and indefinitely partial block Dirkmavs from Prestonwood Baptist Church and Jack Graham (pastor). We'll see how that works out. Thanks,  Spicy (talk) 18:35, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Spicy - ✅.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   23:43, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Doug Weller talk 16:42, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
These are confirmed socks of Prestonwood. Doug Weller talk 16:42, 13 September 2022 (UTC)