Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Verra2023/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
I blocked Verra2023 today at as they were attempting to whitewash the article, removing information published in this source recently. Since then, these three users all popped up and are editing in a similar manner. SmartSE (talk) 00:14, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I'm afraid CU isn't super helpful here:
 * is strongly, a weak if we want to stretch it, to
 * is, at best, to these two
 * appears to be technically ❌
 * I can't entirely rule out proxy use for any of these because I have fairly few datapoints to work with, but there are no indications that that's what we're looking at.
 * WP:MEAT seems like a real possibility, so I'd suggest just blocking based on behaviour as you see fit; semiprotection is perhaps also something to consider. Ping FYI.  --Blablubbs (talk) 15:58, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I already semi-protected the relevant article for a week  before I saw this SPI. I strongly suspect that they're not literal socks but Verra employees/contracted PR professionals trying to control the message on Wikipedia because of the negative Guardian report. I guess now that the CU is done, it might be worth it to drop some user talk page notices and see if that leads to more productive discussions on the talk page.  Patar knight - chat/contributions 16:41, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Notices were left by Patar. Closing. The SandDoctor  Talk 00:42, 22 January 2023 (UTC)