Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Qcosmic/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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The only contributions by the four reported users seem to be about praising prof. M. Zahid Hasan in the article that has been tagged as "containing content that is written like an advertisement" and adding references to his papers in a few other articles. Users Many-body-localized, BangladeshLink and Graphene2010 were only active in March and April of 2020. User STariks1971 only in 9/2017. While I don't know who of the four is a sockpuppeteer, I believe the accounts are connected, or may belong to a group of connected people (most likely MZH and his research group). Also, while I cannot prove it any more, I remember the edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M._Zahid_Hasan&diff=next&oldid=952700144&diffmode=visual appearing at wikipedia before public announcement of the new AMACAD members was made, so this must have been an insider information of user BangladeshLink. Ponor (talk) 15:01, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Allow me to add users Qcosmic, BanglaCosmic and 96.248.111.7 to the list. Their only contributions are (sometimes very specific) details on M. Zahid Hasan. Now, it seems that the whole article was written by the suspicious single-interest users. Ponor (talk) 15:54, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Also Qphysicsbot (already blocked), Qphysicsbt, Whitehead99. All stale accounts with only contributions to M. Zahid Hasan. Ponor (talk) 16:13, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * These accounts are all . No checkuser data will be available to be pulled. Declining CU; this will need a behavioral investigation...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   15:24, 3 January 2021 (UTC)


 * This is all very stale; there's no on-going disruption. Based on the extreme similarity of the editing, I'm of the opinion that this is most likely a WP:MEAT group with COI issues. They're no longer active, but I'll block and tag, if they want start editing again they can request unblock and explain what was going on here. Girth Summit  (blether)  17:08, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Reopening, missed the socks that were mentioned, but not listed. Girth Summit  (blether)  17:13, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Moved oldest account to master, blocked and tagged the last couple Girth Summit  (blether)  17:16, 3 January 2021 (UTC)