Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Thinkified/Archive

17 June 2015

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Both editors are editing exclusively articles on schools owned by Think Education,  part of the Laureate International Universities group. The articles are almost identically formatted, with much content identical except for the specifics of each college. One of them has frequently taken up editing an article the other started, e,g, ; ; https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jansen_Newman_Institute&action=history; ;  DGG ( talk ) 15:18, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Correction--it should be User:Artofpersuation,with a capital A.
 * , It is immediate obvious from a glance atthe article histories   that they are the only major contributors to the same articles in the same promotional manner, and  WP:NOT BURO; I suppose I should just exemplify nOT BURO in the simplest way, and block them myself, but I deliberately went this route to see if was as difficult as I thought it might be  to  follow  some of our over-formal procedures, which in my 8 years here as ed., admin, and arb, I have --correctly, it seems, not thought not worth the learning.   DGG ( talk ) 00:44, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

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 * Thinkified, thinkified, and think80 are . artofpersuasion is not a registered account and I don't see any similarly named accounts through the links provided. With what's left, we have an account and two IPs, one which is stale. This will have to be decided based upon behavioral evidence. Mike V • Talk 22:16, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
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 * 1) At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * 2) At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * 3) In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  22:40, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  11:25, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
 * is related to this group of editors as well based on deleted contribs. From what I have seen, I would suggest that this is meatpuppetry. The two "Think" accounts are the same editor but the gaps in time suggest that P. Saladino is likely a different person. It is still promotional COI editing so I will issue a notice and inquire about other accounts. Meanwhile, I will block older accounts. Also worth mentioning that if other accounts show up at the AfDs then we would need to revisit the socking aspects. The IPs might be worth considering as having not logged in but I don't know that this was done deceptively so much as inadvertently. (To clerks) I would leave the case as filed and not adjust to the oldest account here. Closing.