Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wdixon/Archive

25 August 2013

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Both registered accounts are being used heavily promote Wheeler Winston Dixon and subjects closely related to Dixon, such as his organizations, coauthors, relatives, and publications. They have nearly identical usernames and have both been active since 2006. In addition, their articles' histories reveal many IPs that edit almost nothing except for the same small set of Dixon-related topics. is probably the most prolific of these, showing an editing pattern which closely aligns in time and topics to the registered accounts. Other IPs are more transient, editing only to add images to articles immediately after one of the registered accounts uploads them (e.g., ). I haven't listed all the IPs here as most of them are probably stale by now. —Psychonaut (talk) 20:00, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

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 * - More likely a case of permanently switching accounts / abandoned accounts. Anyway, Wdixon1 is, so not much good CU would do, and we can't connect the IP to the account publicly due to the privacy policy, so we're left with nothing. Rschen7754 04:14, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Forgotten/abandoned account issue, not a sock issue. NativeForeigner Talk 00:23, 1 September 2013 (UTC)