Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Yoghurtboy12/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Tag-team editing with edits almost exclusively to The Journal of Finance. Randykitty (talk) 10:10, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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 * Err
 * I am the editor coordinating for the Elsevier Ecosystem, see my journals at https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-review-of-financial-analysis and at https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-review-of-economics-and-finance
 * As part of the evolution of this ecosystem I will be making some amendments to journal pages where appropriate, such as noting here that FRL is indeed ranked number 1.
 * I have no idea who this Randykitty or yougurtboy person are. I am available at blucey @ tcd.ie if anyone wants to contact me. Believe me I have better things to do than sockpuppet on wikipedia. Brianmluceytcd (talk) 13:56, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Keeping with Brianmluceytcd being unrelated, I've: As this SPI exists it should be pretty difficult for any of the shenanigans to continue without quick detection. I've left The Journal of Finance unprotected in case it does. Closing. DatGuyTalkContribs 12:08, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
 * here's something slightly fishy going on here. should absolutely not be editing articles they have a OI with, and I will give them some guidance on that point, but they are technically pretty unlikely to . Yoghurtboy12 is, however, ✅ to, who hasn't edited in a while but has logged in, and is editing in similar areas. This probably needs a bit of unpicking.   Girth Summit  (blether)  22:52, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Blocked as username represents a well-known person. Hopefully they send an OTRS ticket
 * Left uw-agf-sock on Yoghurtboy12 and Bigeard1916's talk page