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25 April 2018

Suspected sockpuppets


All these users were created in around the same period (four to six months) and all have mainly edited Zener Prize (edit history shows evidence of account switching with no overlaps). All have been involved in either creating fake references for the page (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zener Prize) or uploading copyvio images for the page (see Commons ANB). I am asking for checkuser to look for additional accounts because there are also several recently created accounts editing the article that have not done anything overtly against policy. I have not listed them, but they look like likely socks to me. There is also some cross-wiki editing going on on sister articles. Would someone please advise me of the correct place to report this and have it investigated. Is this something for the Stewards Notice Board? SpinningSpark 13:25, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Other relevant discussions Commons:Deletion requests/File:Andy Granato.jpg, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Manfred Weller.jpg, and Commons:Deletion requests/File:Schoeck G.jpg. The last one was uploaded by User:KeikoKeiko who has not edited any articles here but is likely a sock. KeikoKeiko's sandbox is a draft of the same article and has been edited (revision history) by two of the other socks. SpinningSpark 14:04, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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 Confirmed + Weronsz (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki). Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:42, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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