Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ProWatch19/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
ProWatch19 appears to have a COI with Fntastic, with all of their mainspace edits having been related with the company in one way or another. The three named accounts were created relatively close to each other and have only edited that article, with ProWatch19 coming back after a 2-year hiatus to move it into mainspace. Padgriffin Griffin's Nest 17:15, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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 * Ardagio and Oreinud geolocate to the same country but are ❌ based on checkuser evidence to the group of confirmed accounts. There is probably some level of off-wiki coordination going on. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 21:13, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Blocking the group of confirmed accounts for socking in a way that suggested this was multiple people. Also to be absolutely clear, . Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 21:15, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I've moved the article back to draft space as it was moved by a sock of the creator of the article. I've submitted it for review so that it gets a review on the merits of whether it should be in mainspace. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 21:21, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I've blocked Ardagio and Oreinud for undisclosed paid editing irrespective of the CU results - as Dreamy Jazz said it is almost certain that there is off-wiki coordination (e.g. remote employees of the company, multiple freelancers) going on here. Two accounts whose first and only activity is to edit this draft about this company == lots and lots of UPE quacking. Closing. firefly  ( t · c ) 10:49, 9 October 2022 (UTC)