Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rnafeeur/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Both this user and the IP address have made edits to Draft:CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies, a draft article. The draft article is not indexed, so it is not possible that the IP encountered this by a simple online search, and I think it is quite unlikely that the IP encountered the article separately from the article's creator.

As for why using an IP is an evasion of scrutiny, the account here has previously been warned about committing copyright violations on Wikipedia by copy-pasting information from the University's website into that draft. They are the only account to have added copyright violations; the other accounts editing the article all appear to have encountered the article through copypatrol when the article flagged as copyvio. Despite the two warnings given to the account, the IP came back later and continued the behavior the account was warned for, inserting content copied verbatim from multiple sources on the CUNY website.

The problematic editing pattern (copy-pasting from the CUNY website) is the same between the New York-geolocating IP and the account, coupled with the low likelihood that an IP editor would be able to find that draft article independently, I believe that this is WP:LOUTSOCKing. Because this only involves a single editor and a single IP address, I am not requesting a checkuser, as the obvious behavioral evidence is all that can be discussed publicly. —  Red-tailed hawk (nest) 06:02, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I don't think we need an SPI for this - it's pretty likely it's the same person, obviously, but the account hasn't edited since October last year and the IP has only made a couple of edits. Let's see whether they persist with it, if they keep adding copyvios they will be blocked for that.  Girth Summit  (blether)  18:35, 21 January 2023 (UTC)