Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Stadelman/Archive

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About a week ago, I put COI and BLP sources tags on the article Steve Stadelman because user Stadelman, whose username is the same as the article subject's last name, was editing it. Many of the edits were trying to put a photo in the infobox as well as some other minor tweaks. I put these tags on right after the most recent edit from user Stadelman. About 12 hours after the last edit on the Stadelman account, a Washington, DC-based IP address pops up. Its first edit was solely to remove the tags I had placed (diff). The IP made minor tweaks similar to what the original Stadelman account was doing and removed the tags two more times. Today, RockfordCitizen popped up, and their first edit was the exact same as the IP's: removing the COI tags (diff). As of right now, that is that user's only edit aside from creating their userpage. All in all, this looks like a potential case of undisclosed COI editing, and either sock or meatpuppetry. Aspening (talk) 02:48, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

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 * I agree that there's got to be something fishy going on here. Given that both the accounts and the IP editors are making such similar edits, I'm going to block them all.  The refusal to address potential COI concerns leads me to believe this should be an indefinite block.  I'll leave a talk page message that explains this and suggests allowing an unblock once this is done. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 11:46, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Same as prior socks; first edit was to remove the COI and BLP sources tags. Aspening (talk) 17:51, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

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 * Article semi-protected for a week, which should hopefully resolve it. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 07:24, 19 February 2019 (UTC)