Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Trpsimoes/Archive

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All four accounts appear to be SPAs on Fausto J Pinto, despite ACF claiming no connection, they have continued to edit war and insert personal, unsourced information. Today, LMC returned to reinsert several links and more unsourced content after ACF was given a BLP ds notice and warning for edit warring. I strongly suspect LMC and ACF to be directly related given their timing.

Both also insist on creating headers as all caps and references within the header. See LMC, ACF and both frequently insert refs as plain links, ie [PUBLICATIONS www.whatever.com] Praxidicae (talk) 09:47, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * - There's basically enough here to block on behavior alone, but what's confounding is the edit warring. Maybe two competing sock farms?  Hopefully CU will shed some light on that.  Mostly looking for confirmation that they should be blocked as socks vs blocked for spam or edit warring or some such other thing.  And, if there's four, there's probably more, so please check for sleepers. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:52, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
 * for Trpsimoes, the account hasn't edited in a year. All of the others are : they're all located near each other and using the same generic device on the same ISP, but each uses a different static IP. Also note that Luisa Mendes Correia created, an account with no edits. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:16, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm going supersize my AGF today and issue Trpsimoes a warning about socking. I'll block and tag everybody else.  It's possible that Trpsimoes simply lost their password, made a new account, and then once they discovered they could do that, kept doing it.  If that's the case, they can recover their old password, with the process at FAQ/Technical


 * There's still the issue of edit warring, as well as possible WP:AUTO, WP:UPE, etc, but I'm going to narrowly address the socking aspect here. Those other problems can be dealt with through other administrative means if necessary. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:46, 29 June 2020 (UTC)