Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Trac5btcg/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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Both accounts have edited only a single page in article space: Mark D. Siljander. The suspected sock is restoring the same promotional material as the master: compare, for example, Trac5btcg edit to GWaldron88 edit. The latter account claims to be "a paid employee of the nonprofit (Trac5, Inc.) associated with the work of Mark Siljander," so this is also a WP:COI case. Neutralitytalk 20:22, 25 December 2020 (UTC)


 * The user has acknowledged that he/she previously used the Trac5btcg account (which was another COI "role account" used by multiple people), but has not disclosed this on the user page, and continues to edit-war on the same page despite being pointed to the COI and EW guidance. The simplest way to deal with this would be to (1) indef block the old account (Trac5btcg) and (2) indef partially block the new account (GWaldron88) from editing the Mark D. Siljander page to halt the edit-warring/COI violations there. Neutralitytalk 18:14, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

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I came here as I was also going to file this. Similar suspicions. With all this working at home, checkuser may be less than helpful. Behaviourally the two accounts plainly seem to be from the same company and engaged in WP:MEATPUPPETRY.Possibly (talk) 03:01, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I've blocked the main account. It looks like Neutrality's warning to GWaldron88 on COI has done the trick. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:08, 31 December 2020 (UTC)