Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Swimminginwords/Archive

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Relating to deletion discussion at 1708 Gallery Swimminginwords account is years long SPA for 1708 gallery. Several hours after this account made an edit, two other accounts were created minutes apart and one participated in AfD. Possibly originating from same person or different desks at the same office in coordinated effort to thwart deletion. Graywalls (talk) 07:01, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * Results:
 * Group 1: Ewillett72 and Winkiesinclair are to each other.
 * Swimminginwords is somewhat to Group 1 (close geolocation, different devices). Non-CU evidence suggests meatpuppetry.
 * Mitzi.humphrey was not checked.
 * Kevin ( aka L235 · t · c) 17:13, 6 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Several things make Ewillett72 and Winkiesinclair look very much like the same person, and the CU evidence adds further confirmation. (They are probably the same person, but if not then they are definitely two people acting together, in direct communication with one another.) Winkiesinclair is already blocked, and I shall block Ewillett72. It is impossible to be sure whether the connection of that pair of accounts to Swimminginwords is sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry, but I shall warn Swimminginwords. Mitzi.humphrey does not look like the same person, but both she and Swimminginwords have a conflict of interest, about which they have both been warned. I don't see anything else to be done now, so I am closing this case. JBW (talk) 20:45, 8 June 2020 (UTC)