Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Yyyikes/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * Upload of an image of Cohen to commons by Yyyikes, followed by its addition to Philip Cohen article three minutes later by Paul.p.Clark . This exact activity was performed one year earlier when a photo of Cohen was uploaded by Yyyikes and introduced into the Cohen article 2 minutes later by Yyyikes.. Yyyikes did the same in 2020 too, commons upload and article entry three minutes later.
 * Yyyikes has declared they are Philip N. Cohen and created the Philip N. Cohen page . Clark edits Cohen's page  and edits pages of (past and present) presidents of the American Sociological Association, of which Cohen is a former member. Yyyikes editing ASA page to update the president. Clark edits the page of the president of the ASA (Patricia_Hill_Collins) and former president (Paula_England).
 * Similarity of username Paul.p.clark to name Philip N. Cohen.
 * Yyyikes previously warned against COI for "Philip N. Cohen or SocArXiv or American Sociological Association" and stopped editing ~ a month before Clark began editing, indicating a transfer to a new account. Pabsoluterince (talk) 22:59, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Edited by Pabsoluterince (talk) 12:11, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - and  are ✅; this is complicated a bit because of the association with a public person. Editors are permitted to use multiple accounts for a variety of reasons, but given that Yyyikes has previously disclosed that they are Philip N. Cohen, has previously stated that Yyyikes is their only account (per the COI note currently on Talk:Philip N. Cohen that they added), and was recently involved in a discussion about conflict-of-interest editing, their creation and use of a second account to edit those same topics strongly gives the appearance of evading scrutiny, something which is explicitly not allowed. I am inclined to block the sock and warn the original account, but I am holding off on any action so that the editor has an opportunity to explain. But I will not wait forever. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:58, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I left this open too long, but I'm satisfied with the editor's responses on their talk page. Closing with no action. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:54, 12 April 2024 (UTC)