Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/RedX8/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Sock picks up right where the master leaves off at Draft:Abdullah Sulaiman Al Rajhi by re-creating the draft blanked by the master and expanding upon it. They then perform a literal cut-and-paste move to a new mainspace article Abdullah Sulaiman Al Rajhi. The master has declared a COI in the past, which caused the article to be draftified in the first place. See this ANI post for more context. The master had been warned not to bypass AfC due to their COI, so the sock may have been created to bypass AfC. Yee no  (talk) 🍁 03:51, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * @Oshwah: Would it be an attempt to avoid WP:SCRUTINY and continue editing on an article in which they have a COI? From the ANI post, it seemed to me that they were trying to deny a COI despite disclosing it on their very first edit. Yee no   (talk) 🍁 06:38, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * The edits for RedX8 stop at 13:06 on 7 July 2021. Elshitaq's edits begin at 19:49 on 7 July 2021. I don't see an overlap in edits between these two accounts. I'm inclined to say that there is no violation of sock puppetry here. It could be that the user simply wanted to create a new account with a new username and resume editing... Please let me know if I'm missing anything, but I don't see a violation...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   05:58, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm going to dig deep into my AGF supply and close this with no action taken. These are clearly the same person, but as Oshwah points out, no temporal overlap means no socking.  There's still the issue of COI, but that isn't something that needs to be handled at SPI. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:14, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
 * So much for AGF. They're now both active again, reopening. -- RoySmith (talk) 11:42, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not 100% sure if these are the same person, but if not, then clearly two people working in close collaboration, being evasive about their WP:COI, etc. Indef the junior account and 1 week for the senior.  Should additional disruptive editing happen, their AGF account is severely overdrawn. -- RoySmith (talk) 11:56, 19 August 2021 (UTC)