Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rwalfrey/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Edit history (last 150-ish edits) on Tornado records and on the talk page. This is a big SPI check; reasoning explained next. Rwalfrey was blocked for edit warring on the page for a 48-hour window. A recent major academic publication occurred, leading to an influx of newer accounts. It also didn't help that the edit war on Wikipedia was discussed off-Wikipedia on several Reddit threads and Twitter threads. DUCK is not an option to look at, given the off-Wiki communication/threads. Big, given most (maybe all) were changing basically the same thing on the page, SPI is being requested to make sure these were all ten unique people and a sock from Rwalfrey didn't get into the mix. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 19:44, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * - SPI is being requested to make sure these were all ten unique people is the opposite of how things should work - see WP:NOTFISHING. Do you have any evidence that specifically ties any of these accounts to any other, besides making similar edits, which you've already established isn't convincing evidence of sockpuppetry? Spicy (talk) 03:53, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Procedural close, basis for running a CU has not been provided. The Wordsmith Talk to me 00:00, 12 July 2024 (UTC)