Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sarahcunningham87/Archive

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The two accounts were created within minutes of each other. While the master made about 12 initial edits about other things (the first two to DNS spoofing, hm) both accounts have since been SPA for topics related to tanning beds and the benefits of UV light. While the near-simultaneous account registration may be coincidence, the SPA focus and replication of edits especially at Tanning bed is a bit too much for this to be chance. Very likely sock or meat.
 * at Tanning bed, Master account made these edits Sept 20 most of which were reverted by User:JzG and User:Dennis Brown; sock made these edits to same article - almost exactly the same as master) Oct 28.
 * at Health effects of sunlight exposure the sock made these edits about benefits; after I reverted, citing MEDRS, the master (with whom I had interacted at Talk:Vitamin D deficiency about MEDRS sourcing here), then came added content about benefits here.
 * at Ultraviolet sock made these edits mostly (not all) about benefits, master then followed removing negative content. Jytdog (talk) 18:43, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the swift CU, BBB. Perhaps the first edit by the master was telling.  I'll await review of the behavioral evidence. Jytdog (talk) 19:56, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

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The two accounts are /. One is using a hotel mail server.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:26, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked based on behavior. There's too many coincidences here. The registration timing is especially odd, with Sarahcunningham87 registering, making some edits (including to DNS spoofing), then Darkwaterbuffalo4 registering 10 minutes after the last initial edit from the Sarah account. The similarities in topic area popping up around the same time in two inactive accounts is odd. There are a few other obvious behavioral similarities that I won't go into here, but feel free to email me if you'd like greater detail. ~ Rob 13 Talk 01:50, 30 October 2016 (UTC)