Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Zahida2013/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
I became curious about Viibird when they left a one-word reply to a comment by Zahida2013 at Talk:Ancient Egyptian race controversy: concur. The reply appeared 2 minutes after Zahida2013's original comment. Prior to this, Viibird hadn't made a single edit in 9 years! Further, both accounts were created within one month of one another in July 2013.

Both users identify as medical doctors with a specialty in epidemiology (Zahida2013: I am a physician epidemiologist with 20 years of study of DNA science versus Viibird: I have MD and MPH degrees and specialty in community medicine/epidemiological surveillance ). Both accounts also appear to have a shaky grasp of English grammar and capitalization (compare e.g. Zahida2013 versus Viibird ). Though this last point is far from dispositive, there is certainly no stylistic evidence that they are not the same person. And everything else points toward the use of two accounts to create the illusion of support. Generalrelative (talk) 16:50, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅ Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 18:47, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Given the initial time gap, this would have not been a sockpuppetry policy violation, except for the cited comment at Talk:Ancient Egyptian race controversy which has been abusive. I have struck this comment and delivered a warning to the talk page of both accounts. If Viibird does not edit again, I would suggest leaving this here. If WP:ILLEGIT use of multiple accounts continues, feel free to report again. Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 20:55, 13 September 2023 (UTC)