Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rosedaler/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Found the following page where two editors are discussing being banned User talk:Randy Kryn.

Edit: Re-reading the talk pages, sockpuppeteer might be User:Awolf58 Equine-man (talk) 21:36, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I beg to respectfully disagree with you. There is a conflict of interest in that article. The editor has previously admitted to being a biographer of the article subject. Guess there are different rules for some. Equine-man (talk) 21:40, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - I'm not seeing anything warranting a check, please provide more evidence. Salvio 22:14, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I understand that this is a good-faith mix-up, but please be more careful when filing SPIs in the future. What you've found is a conversation where an Awolf sockpuppet made his identity known to Randy Kryn, and Randy chose to try to talk him into taking a standard offer unblock rather than report him. No one has a duty to report, and it's not like Randy inappropriately made edits on behalf of Awolf, so there's no policy violation here. I think that you, however, may have run afoul of the latter, if only unintentionally. If you came under the impression that there is a COI issue at James Bevel that needs to be resolved, that is a position that Awolf has pushed aggressively in the past, and not one that seems to have any basis in fact. WP:SELFCITE allows self-citation. If you do still see a COI issue there, feel free to restore the tag and start a thread on the talkpage, but my assumption is that you got caught up in Awolf's web of misinformation here. As Blablubbs has blocked the Awolf sock, and with prejudice.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 08:57, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
 * from SELFCITE (the portion of the COI guideline that governs such situations): Using material you have written or published is allowed within reason, but only if it is relevant, conforms to the content policies, including WP:SELFPUB, and is not excessive. Citations should be in the third person and should not place undue emphasis on your work. Has any aspect of this been violated? If so, you are welcome to re-tag the article and create a section on the talkpage explaining your concern . Drive-by tagging an article by an editor in good standing is not appropriate, especially when it restores an edit repeatedly made by a banned user. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 22:27, 26 November 2022 (UTC)