Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Stevenumbrello/Archive

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The three accounts seem to be used for self-promotion. Sockmaster has been banned for sockpuppetry before. [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=111601729. Link to block log.]

EthicsScholar93 is being used to edit a number of pages to include suspected sockmaster's research as sources (e.g., Example 1 and Example 2 and Example 3). There are many more diffs to support this, these are just three examples.

Arkanbir seems to be an sockpuppet account used to create the suspected sockmaster's wiki page. Link to supporting diff.

EthicsScholar20 has been used to create a Wikiquotes Page for suspected sockmaster also. Link to supporting Wikiquotes diff.

Apologies if this is not the correct way to report suspected sockpuppetry for Wikiquote. AtomicOwl (talk) 17:08, 25 May 2021 (UTC)


 * @AtomicOwl, On your last point, Wikiquote is a separate project (related, but administered on its own). I'm afraid we can't do anything about socking there.  It's not even clear what their socking policy is.  The best I can find is wikiquote:Wikiquote:Username policy, and I don't see where you would go to report violations of that. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:47, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

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I see you blocked the master last year for socking, but I don't see any mention of other accounts. Do you have any recollection of the sock accounts? -- RoySmith (talk) 13:44, 27 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Oh, never mind. Looks like it must have been . -- RoySmith (talk) 13:50, 27 June 2021 (UTC)


 * It's possible that the newer bunch are not actually the same person as the original pair (Stevenumbrello and Annatar2202), but it's certainly clear that Arkanbir and the EthicsScholars are socks, if if the two groups are not actually one group, then certainly UPE/COI. Actually, this makes me suspect they're not the same person.  I would think somebody with this level of advanced academic training would know how to spell their own name on the first try.  For what it's worth, Special:Diff/750656043 makes me suspect Arkanbir might be related to, but I'm not going down that rathole today.  WP:G5 Steven Umbrello.  And, just found , so indef them too. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:23, 27 June 2021 (UTC)