Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Silasssilva92/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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It seems that there is a scheme of paid accounts involved with Federal University of Sergipe and several academics linked to it (here, here, here, here, here, here). It likely involves sock and/or meat puppetry. Looking at the contributions from accounts like, , , , for example, it is easy to realize that they are linked to which others and working towards the same goals: create, maintain and promote articles linked to the Federal University of Sergipe. Even the names pattern show it. Aracaju is the capital of Sergipe. Ufsergipe and Comunicaufs names clearly show that they are linked with the Federal University of Sergipe. Several of these articles (mostly the one for academics) doesn't meet any WP notability criteria, and many of them have been deleted or drafted. Some of these accounts haven't edited for years, so it may be hard to check them, but some of them are still active as of today. I strongly suspect that there are other accounts involved, but I was not able to track them all. SirEdimon Dimmi!!! 02:46, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * . CheckUser information is only retained for 90 days; of these accounts, only Aracaju has edited in the last 90 days. Mz7 (talk) 06:14, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
 * COI editing surely, but I don't think we're even in meatpuppetry territory here. COI-warned the recently active one; if the COI editing continues, page protection or WP:COIN are the way to go. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:40, 19 August 2021 (UTC)