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Suspected sockpuppets



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Since the beginning of this month, Rwbest is busy with what seems to be a campaign to promote the work of Mark Z. Jacobson. On Talk:Mark Z. Jacobson there are multiple discussions about this, and especially the lack of sources conform WP:RS. This discussion has spread out to WP:DRN and the fringe theories noticeboard. Remarkably user:Mark Z. Jacobson, blocked for vanity editing on Mark Z. Jacobson in December 2017, shows up on his talkpage to complain about the unfair treatment, the day after Rwbest stopped editing on Talk:Mark Z. Jacobson. He complains roughly in the same manner as Rwbest, using the same style non-independent sources for his claims.

Today, 23 April 2018, an IP shows up at the Fringe theories noticeboard to defend the theories of Jacobson. The IP uses the same style of linking external articles as both Rwbest and Mark Z. Jacobson. And the new IP is working on a non-mainstream noticeboard in a technically correct manner, what does not happen too often with new users.

Even more suspicious is the fact that Rwbest uses one of the edits of the IP as an argument on the Dutch Wikipedia where Rwbest tries to defend the theories of Jacobson.

I have no confidence that the three accounts/IPs mentioned are truly three separate editors. The most positive options seems to be that Rwbest is working for or working on behalf of Mark Z. Jacobson, having an undeclared COI and that the IP and the account Mark Z. Jacobson are one and the same (block evasion). But this is not the place to help friends. The Banner talk 22:11, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

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This is a WP:DUCK job. Given that the master account is blocked, the IP should be as well. Guy (Help!) 23:05, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
❌. The two users are editing from different continents. .--Bbb23 (talk) 23:52, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Between the technical differences, the choice of articles edited, and timing of edits, the registered accounts look like two different people to me. The IP is long stale so doesn't need to be actioned one way or the other. Sir Sputnik (talk) 20:47, 23 May 2018 (UTC)