Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TheoDaviesLewis/Archive

03 November 2015

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Original user is a WP:SPA dedicated to editing the article John Witherow. In a posting on BLPN requesting the removal of maintenance tags from the article, he suggested that he had a COI, working at the behest of the subject's employer in multiple posts. A day after that user stops posting, the new user appears, focused solely on the same page, repeatedly deleting the tags that prior user wanted deleted, and reinserting (at times repeatedly) some of the same material that the prior user had originally inserted but which other editors (including myself) found to be problematic (that's just an example, but one suggestive of a COI; the first of the two Newspaper Of The Year awards was received during the time of the subject's editorship, but for work done under the previous editor; the source on profitability does not attribute said profitability to the subject, but links it to an earlier change in charging for online material.) The suspected sock specifically denies having a conflict of interest. Suspicion is that this is a sock specifically intended to disassociate new edits from previous admission of COI. --Nat Gertler (talk) 17:10, 3 November 2015 (UTC) Nat Gertler (talk) 17:10, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

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✅. I blocked the master for two weeks and blocked/tagged the puppet. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:12, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

04 November 2015

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New account whose sole edit is to remove maintenance tag that was previously a target of edits by this user's earlier sock here and here and also here. Nat Gertler (talk) 01:01, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

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✅, blocked and tagged. I've made the master's block indefinite and tagged the account. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 05:43, 4 November 2015 (UTC)