Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ReasonAndScience/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Article each user has mainly edited and vandalized: Physicians for Patient Protection

Each user is either a brand new account with few edits or an old account again with few edits. All three accounts edited the same article within a 4 minute window at one point. Each account writes in a similar fashion and described their edits in a similar pattern. All edits occur around the same time frame.

Edits between 19:01 and 19:05 on August 22nd  Each account edited the article within this time frame and these edits supporting the same agenda and type of editing.

Edits between 19:09 and 19:35 on August 22nd: Again, each account manually restoring the vandalism they had previously carried out.

More info found on the article page history: ReasonAndScience contributions list: DiamondInTheRug contributions list: Bonafidemd79 contributions list:

Both Bonafide and Diamond commented on the talk page of the article attacking another editor who had been reverting their vandalism: Both accounts went to the talk page despite one account only being created on that exact day.

Edit here by Bonafidemd79: deleted entire section of the article at 21:33 on August 22nd: Another user reverted the vandalism. User ReasonAndScience deleted a section of the restored content of the article at 22:28 on August 22nd (that Bonafidemd79 had deleted nearly an hour ago): Just 3 minutes later Bonafidemd79 deletes rest of section 22:31 on August 22nd:

Edit here by DiamondInTheRug: deleted specific section at 19:12 on August 22nd: Another user reverted the vandalism. User ReasonAndScience then attempted to do what Diamond had previously done but reworded the section to cover his tracks at 20:52 on August 22nd: ReasonAndScience then came back to finish the job and did what Diamond had previously done: deleted entire section at 02:02 on August 23rd:

More evidence and suspected other socks of same user found:

User continues to disrupt page in question. Please investigate. Inexpiable (talk) 19:43, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * I wouldn't characterise their edits as outright vandalism necessarily. The article was originally created by a sock which seems to have had a strong anti PPP agenda, and much of the originally included content is probably not due. The fact that these newly active and dormant accounts are editing the article and their similar editing style is indeed suspicious. Some of their editing looks promotional, and they may be attempting to whitewash the article, but it is difficult to tell without a proper understanding of the topic. Hemiauchenia (talk) 20:32, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
 * This is a somewhat disappointing outcome. Surely the user could just be using a VPN of some sort? I think a further look should be considered especially considering one of those accounts (Bonafide) has just been permanently banned by an admin for continuing to vandal. The edits are far too similar, and the comments are practically identical. Diamond is definitely Bonafide, they are all single purpose accounts with a conservative agenda. Inexpiable (talk) 21:19, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - all SPAs with single interest, similar editing - CU please.  Girth Summit  (blether)  20:09, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
 * - ~TNT (she/they • talk) 05:13, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
 * This is looking very technically (i.e. geo) ~TNT (she/they • talk) 05:16, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Could be offwiki coordination of some sort, or could just be people with political opinions. Closing without action. GeneralNotability (talk) 14:09, 27 August 2021 (UTC)