Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wwdc24/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
These two accounts have very similar names. Both were created within a 3-day window and have been active only on Wagyu and California State University.

On Wagyu, both are involved in pushing two edits in particular, which have been repeatedly rejected by other users:

Nonetheless, when their edits are reverted, both accounts point to the fact that other editors "support" their changes.
 * This, about "National Wagyu Day", which other editors deemed irrelevant given the apparent non-notable character of "Steve Haddadin"; and
 * This, which seems to promote some kind of commercial verificaton system. Other editors called this "advert" and "ill-sourced promo".

... but after combing through the edit history, I can't find a single other user that has supported these changes, except Wwdc24 and Jrsr24. I count at least 6 editors who have objected to these changes.
 * Wwdc24: "As noted by another, it is actually notable"
 * Most recently, Jrsr24, in response to my rollback of their edit: " Only by 1 and reaffirmed by another. But 2 other users view this as a plus. So not a consensus, a debate. Undid revision 1187175729 by Akakievich"

There are also these two edits: exhibit A, exhibit B which seem EXTREMELY suspicious to me. Two edits made within 2 minutes of each other to the same section of the same page with nearly identical edit summaries..?? Seems like someone accidentally switched accounts.

Both also write their edit summaries very similarly: "This is important to be noted" / "Notable observance", for example. Akakievich (talk) 11:22, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Please, compare those two.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:51, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅. Given that this looks like a first offense, I'm just blocking master for a few days (indeffing the sock), no tags. RoySmith (talk) 18:47, 30 November 2023 (UTC)