Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ujunwaanakwenze/Archive

20 November 2012

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These users have all recently edited Inequality in the workplace, adding related edits that appear to be cut and pasted from an essay. . Several other edits by these accounts have been to articles about large corporations, and bear a similar "school essay" feel. All accounts were created within a few days of each other in October. Whether or not the editor is intending to be disruptive, an effect of the multiple account usage is to possible coaching to improve the quality of the edits. The relationship between the accounts is obvious, but since some of the accounts did not share edits on the same article until today I am requesting CU to verify if there are sleepers. VQuakr (talk) 08:22, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' Upon further consideration, I noticed this edit, which may refer to a classroom activity. Several students adding material to related articles as part of a class assignment could exhibit the editing pattern described above. VQuakr (talk) 08:42, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * Strictly speaking, the accounts would have been a match to each other, but they are coming from an educational institution and the classwork scenario is highly likely.  Please check with them before taking action (and try to poke their prof about the copyvios).  &mdash; Coren (talk) 13:39, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify, the edits appeared to be cut and pasted but to my knowledge none were explicitly identified as copyvios. They could have still been their own work, just written in a style more appropriate for a school essay than an article. If anyone is aware of any actually confirmed copyvios, that would be good to know. VQuakr (talk) 17:12, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I sent the professor an email. I think this investigation can be closed, as we seem to have confirmed that this is outside of the scope of SPI. VQuakr (talk) 17:00, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:54, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Closing.