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All accounts are on US office hours, same editing style, all of them are focused on adding the same kind of publications and insubstantial recognitions to David Petraeus (with the exception of the master account, who has edited more articles). TardyMarmot and DataSloth also overlap on Henry Kravis and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Very likely UPE. MarioGom (talk) 20:00, 15 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Interesting results. So is the actual master... That's consistent with TardyMarmot's interest in General Atlantic.
 * Roy: TardyMarmot, DataSloth, and Nadin155 are not blocked, is it intentional? Deferring to a SPI clerk? MarioGom (talk) 21:55, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I wasn't sure how to tag Data and Nadin, so I left them to a clerk, but yeah, I should have blocked Tardy; thanks for alerting me. I'll do that now. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:01, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 20:31, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
 * DataSloth and Nadin155 are ✅ to each other, but ❌ to TardyMarmot on the technical data. However:
 * are ✅ to TardyMarmot. The other accounts are  -- RoySmith (talk) 20:49, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
 * See also this log entry -- RoySmith (talk) 21:23, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
 * are ✅ to TardyMarmot. The other accounts are  -- RoySmith (talk) 20:49, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
 * See also this log entry -- RoySmith (talk) 21:23, 15 December 2021 (UTC)


 * - please indef DataSloth and Nadin155. These accounts have temporal and behavioural overlap and are likely engaging in undisclosed paid/COI editing based on their WP:SPA editing pattern and overlap with the TardyMarmot group (see Michael Fjord's userpage ). Behaviourally, Fedora15 and Kawaiighibli also look like the same person; they're stale and I don't think it's necessary to block them at this time, but this furthers the impression that this isn't a legitimate use of multiple accounts. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:58, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
 * All accounts blocked. The most optimistic reading of the behavioural evidence I can come up with is that these are all individuals being directed by a central authority, but Occam's razor suggests strongly that this is one person with an article-writing business and a VPN. Tagged accordingly. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 03:41, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
TardyMarmot is an UPE company working long-term for General Atlantic, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Lazard and others. They generally focus on biographies of executives these companies. These new batch of accounts overlap in these: Note that both past TardyMarmot socks, who disclosed their relation to General Atlantic, as well as RikkyBob, have been uploading images for these customers with permission tickets, so VRT agents could check some further data. However, I don't think it's strictly necessary, and the evidence presented here, as well as the mere presence of these permission tickets and their submission timing should be enough. MarioGom (talk) 21:14, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
 * General Atlantic-related: RikkyRob
 * Lazard-related: RikkyRob (, also see these Commons uploads with permission tickets, overlap on Bianna Golodryga who is the spouse of a Lazard exec), HauntsQuants (added a corporate image uploaded by RikkyRob ), PeterMadigan (every contrib).
 * Kohlberg Kravis Roberts-related: HauntsQuants (see contribs on David Petraeus).

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * . MarioGom (talk) 21:15, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Checkuser does not connect these accounts to one another - they could be different people. However, I have no doubt that there is UPE going on here (and in the case of PeterMadigan, there are technical reasons the think that as well as behavioural ones) and likely off-wiki collusion, so am blocking all as suspected to this case.  Girth Summit  (blether)  11:09, 21 October 2023 (UTC)