Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Simoncottam/Archive

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Promotional edits once again on Norfolk colleges, adding in a load of clearly promo information on an account mysteriously created just after Simoncottam was blocked for doing exactly the same thing. The copyvios are less obvious this time, but they still appear to be minimally-changed copies - see this page and this diff as an example. Naypta ☺ &#124; ✉ talk page &#124; 15:14, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, as Creffett points out below, there's a possibility this is meatpuppetry rather than sockpuppetry, especially given the nature of the promo edits being made, which is why I requested CU. With both of them indef-blocked, it's sort of academic, but it might be good just to confirm it. Naypta ☺ &#124; ✉ talk page &#124; 15:30, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked Sheilaoldham782 on behavioral evidence and have upgraded Simoncottam to an indef (it looks like block evasion since the new account popped up right after the old one, but I suppose a case could be made for meatpuppetry working from the same script - either way, I'm blocking for it), tagging both shortly. I don't see a need for CU here, but I'm not wearing my trainee-clerk hat right now so I will leave that decision to someone else. creffett (talk) 15:27, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Technical data suggests both and  are  the same. - Mailer Diablo 23:44, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Closing per the above. The SandDoctor  Talk 05:50, 4 June 2020 (UTC)