Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Truedad21/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Truedad21 is a heavy editor of the BLP of conversion therapist Richard A. Cohen, and due to a potential COI and poor sourcing, has had clashes with a number of editors and here.

In September, a new account Lukehhuneycutt showed up to defend Richard on the talk page here making claims about Wikipedia editing guidelines.

In October, another new account Malakh222 made a similar comment here.

In November, new account Dr.Green1245 was made to make a very similar argument to Lukehhuneycutt, here claiming the article has “false information” and “butchering” his work.

I find it quite unlikely that these individuals would coincidentally all ‘stumble’ upon this article within such a short period, and all made a new account to comment (but did no further editing). This seems like a possible attempt to mask a shared IP. I also find it strange that those unfamiliar with Wiki would all comment in the same place on the talk page. Generally, non-editors make simple IP comments in new sections.

Further, a user already posted about a potential COI for Truedad21 and Lukehhuneycutt on the here on the noticeboard. Zenomonoz (talk) 13:25, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Dr.Green1245 has begun editing of Richard A Cohen here Zenomonoz (talk) 23:22, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Clear similarities: both truedad21 and Dr.Green1245 have made the same argument specifying Richard Cohen's publishers, Oakhill and Intervarsity: here and here. Zenomonoz (talk) 23:52, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Since your comment below (about "too few edits") there have been several attempts by Dr.Green1245 to make similar edits to the Richard A. Cohen BLP as Truedad21, with some nearly verbatim edit summaries. See in particular:

Trudad21: Added professionally published books

Dr.Green1245: Added more information about the subject's professionally published books. 

Trudad21: Removed link to Conversion Therapy, which Cohen has repudiated and condemned...

Dr.Green1245: I have removed a biased statement about Mr. Cohen calling him "conversion therapist" which he never claimed to be... 

Looks like a DUCK to me. Generalrelative (talk) 06:21, 13 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Also, my most recent note about publishers was only made after Bbb23's comment Zenomonoz (talk) 08:29, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - The suspected socks have made too few edits to be sure that they are socks, or even meat puppets. I've requested CU to sort it out. Bbb23 (talk) 16:11, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
 * ❌. I did find a which I have sock blocked. Izno (talk) 20:02, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Closing with no further action.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  16:24, 4 December 2023 (UTC)