Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Trafficcityllc/Archive

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All of the above account have focused on editing Josh Monkarsh. The master was blocked for a WP:ORGNAME violation, which meant the account could not be used to comment in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josh Monkarsh. So, Beezo7474 appears to have been created for that purpose and posted this comment. Attempts to engage Beezo7474 in good faith were made (even though it was probably a case of WP:QUACK or WP:MEAT), but the editor started to exhibit WP:REHASH, WP:NPA and WP:IDHT tendencies and was blocked. After Beezo7474 was blocked, Bostonshamrock1984 appeared to basically repeat the same arguments; after Bostonshamrock1984 was blocked, Poweroftheforce showed up and did the same thing.

All of the aforementioned accounts have already been blocked, so maybe an SPI is not really needed. Trafficcityllc is the name of a company created by Mokarsh, so it seems likely that there is a strong connection between the accounts; they might not be the same person, but they probably are working together to keep the article. I also think it's likely that more accounts are going to be created and used for this purpose, so I thought it would be a good idea to start a SPI not for only the aforementioned accounts, but so there's something on record in case any others show up in the future. I added the IPs because they have recently edited the article and seem to be basically adding/revising the promotional content in the same manner as Trafficcityllc. It's possible that Trafficcityllc forgot their password and decided to use an IP to edit. I also only looked at edits made since September 7, 2018. There was no editing of the article (other than a bot edit) from May 31, 2017 to September 7, 2018, but there might be other connected accounts which made earlier edits and are no longer active. Marchjuly (talk) 00:01, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * Group 1 - The following accounts are to each other:
 * Tafficcityllc
 * Poweroftheforce
 * Group 2 - The following accounts are to each other and / to Group 1:
 * Beezo7474
 * Bostonshamrock1984
 * --Bbb23 (talk) 00:41, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Tagged and closing. GABgab 22:45, 19 September 2018 (UTC)