Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SValvano/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
SValvano and JerseyRingo are the same person from New Jersey. Both of the user accounts have inserted excessive detail into the Mark Lewisohn biography, listing for instance the particular hospital of birth. In the second insertion, a British podcast was cited, but the podcast does not name the hospital. (I listened to the whole podcast to verify.) Neither does Mark Lewisohn's own website biography list this hospital, not now nor in any of the saved versions at archive.org. It's clear to me that Lewisohn is directing someone to write this stuff down on Wikipedia, supplying information that is not published anywhere.

Checkuser requested to verify. Binksternet (talk) 17:20, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

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 * - the suspected master is and no historical data is available. . Spicy (talk) 15:44, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Behaviorally, they look like the same person. But I'm not convinced there's an actual WP:SOCK violation here. Stopping the use of one account (or losing access, for all we know) and registering a new account months later isn't against policy. It looks like a new editor who wasn't aware of our policies. The issue itself is also stale, so I'm not inclined to block now. If disruptive behavior resumes, another SPI can be filed. The Wordsmith Talk to me 20:38, 24 April 2024 (UTC)