Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Steven02511/Archive

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I met these 3 editors when each weighed in on a new AfD about an obscure political activist Articles for deletion/Ed Winters. All 3 have similar editing patterns, very few edits with stretches of months and years between edits. . Steven02511 joined the project in 2011 with 6 edits, made a similar # of edits in 2013, 2016 and 2017, and made 49 edits this month. He has edited mostly on animal rights, creating pages on animal rights related surge activism, Ed Winters, Anonymous for the voiceless and several deleted pages. Den joined in 2015 with 5 edits made 15 edits in 2015, 4 in 2017, and over 150 edits this month. Den's edits focused on AfD, with 6 edits at Articles for deletion/Ed Winters and 3 at Articles for deletion/Surge activism. He has, moreover, left comments insisting that other editors WP:AGF about his editing,, ,. Morgan_Ginsberg joined in March 2017 with 2 edits. He made 10 edits in Feb. 2018. and returned late last month, since then he has made over 120 edits on a range of topics, many involving cryptocurrencies, but also the Ed Winters AfD, and created 4 articles. E.M.Gregory (talk) 21:53, 22 October 2018 (UTC)


 * As Morgan Ginsberg says, it makes sense to check User:HelloMultiverse, who has edited solely on the Ed Winters AfD.E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:08, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
 * SOCKPUPPET OR MEATPUPPET it walks like a WP:DUCK. The multiple IP locations and pattern of widely spaced, intermittent bouts of editing could be explained by coordinated editing.  Or it could be a single editor who travels and edits under multiple identities. What is extremely improbable is that they all instantly showed up at an obscure AfD without being in cahoots. I do a lot of AfD, arguing regularly to delete non-notable writers, PR professionals, self-promoting therapists, political candidates, business owners and activists per WP:PROMO. To my experienced ear, the  editors arguing to keep Ed Winters Articles for deletion/Ed Winters, while arguing less tenaciously to keep the organization he founded Articles for deletion/Surge activism sound like a fairly experienced editor who knows how to game the rules by editing under multiple accounts diffs:, , , , ,  .  The tone of the comments  on Ed Winters and Surge activism makes this cluster of editors sound just like all of the other, garden variety, self-promoting careerists who take umbrage when their notability is queried - and go QUACK, QUACK. E.M.Gregory (talk) 16:16, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

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You might as well include. New user who made five edits, four to the Ed Winters AFD and one to create a userpage. 's userpage has Template:User in Puerto Rico and I have never been to Puerto Rico. Morgan Ginsberg (talk) 09:06, 23 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Let me know how should I help. Den... (talk) 23:36, 23 October 2018 (UTC)


 * If they aren't socks, they might be WP:PAID. Someone please warn them and take care of it. w umbolo   ^^^  21:14, 7 November 2018 (UTC)


 * This might be Sockpuppet investigations/Oluwa2Chainz/Archive, as per edits to Lethal Eviction. w umbolo   ^^^  16:24, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Sitting too long. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:48, 19 January 2019 (UTC)