Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rachel Buzzi/Archive

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I wonder if is there any connection between these two newbie accounts.. created on the same day at almost same time. and both edited Laura McPhee. a few days later both edited Pryde Brown (an article related to Laura McPhee) at almost the same time. frankly it appears the accounts are being used to promote Pryde Brown. Saqib (talk) 08:11, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' Greetings and apologies for delayed response and, most likely, for going about attempting to redress this incorrectly. 1. The blocked accounts @occrosby and @RachelBuzzi, along with active accounts @Samanthachase and @Yinzixie were all part of a group in my history of photography class at UConn working on editing the Laura McPhee entry for #ArtandFeminism Wikipedia Editathon. The students initially worked as a group in one user's sandbox for convenience sake, and because one of the group was a non-native speaker, before I asked them to create separate user accounts in order for the Art & Feminism count to be more accurate--hence the reason their accounts were created so closely together. Ultimately, I was at fault for not being on top of the need for separate accounts and community guidelines--part of this had to do with having four classes canceled due to snow and having to do reconfigure the syllabus several times to work around this; part of this is my own lack of absolutely thorough knowledge as editor with account creator privileges. The above-named students/accounts worked very hard on bringing the McPhee entry up to snuff, and in the process realized that photographer Pryde Brown, McPhee's mother, had been a major influence on McPhee's work, one not acknowledged in the entry or elsewhere, as was the influence of McPhee's father, author John McPhee. They created in all seriousness a stub for Pryde Brown, which has since been deleted. I'm not sure why it was considered promotional, as I hadn't yet reviewed the entry myself. In summary, the students did not knowingly participate in sockpuppetry and certainly not for promotional purposes as they have no connection to the subject other than to restitute yet another unackowledge woman artist to Wikipedia's pages. Thank you for your attention. Professor Kelly Dennis University of Connecticut drkd (talk)

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Both users/accounts are editing from the same educational institution. It is impossible to say whether they are socks or meat. Blocked both without tags. Rachel Buzzi is the older account by two days. Please move the case accordingly. Tags are optional.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:15, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 14:55, 5 April 2018 (UTC)