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Imaginarium Monkey

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16 May 2024

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– Clerk assistance is requested in the case below.

Suspected sockpuppets

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Accounts and IPs exhibit a significant overlap in the articles and appear to have an interest in various medicine-related topics, particularly those related to nurse practitioners, physician assistants, remote and wilderness medicine (including the rejected Draft:College of Remote and Offshore Medicine), and a range of topics involving emergency medicine in Scotland. The users and their edits share a similar POV and have at least once responded to each other on an article talkpage (see Talk:Doctor of Nursing Practice#New Controversy Section). Additionally, these accounts and IPs will often edit within days or, as in the case of the Rick Santorum article, even minutes of each other. Imaginarium Monkey has not edited since 2022, but there were times when this user was overlapping with TheMouseMen and IP accounts. Wikipedialuva (talk) 00:07, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

An example of suspicious diffs is Imaginarium Monkey's and TheMouseMen's edits to the Rick Santorum article on 21 January 2022. At 18:15, Imaginarium Monkey edit adds very complex markup text [1]. At 18:34, TheMouseMen made their third-ever edit, which also contained very complex markup language in an extremely similar style to TheMouseMen [2]. Also, to be clear, I am not seeking a checkuser to confirm that IPs are the same as the accounts; I recognize that this is not allowed. I did, however, add the IPs to ensure the record is complete. Wikipedialuva (talk) 07:13, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I recently discovered the TMallinson account. In this diff [3] on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine, IP 213.226.67.38 makes a post using the IP's signature, then less than a minute later, TMallinson changes the signature to their own. In the draft article Draft:College of Remote and Offshore Medicine (which was created by TheMouseMen), TMallinson makes extensive edits, often just minutes apart from other listed accounts/IPs, often just minutes apart, as seen in this diff: [4]. Wikipedialuva (talk) 05:34, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Adding Tannim101. This account is the oldest out of the accounts so far, having been created in 2009. This account seems to edit many of the same articles as the other accounts and also seems to hold similar opinions and views. Additional evidence includes edits that occurred in the Emergency medical personnel in the United Kingdom article on March 27 March 2022. Tannim101 had just created a new section entitled "Consultant Paramedic Controversy" (seeming to be in line with the usual POV of other accounts) and finished their edits at 20:54. Just two minutes later, TheMouseMen makes an edit to the newly created section, turning several URLs into full references and adding a pipped wikilink (diff: [5]). Wikipedialuva (talk) 07:11, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

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  • TMallinson is clearly 213 per cited diff. I think Imaginarium and Mouse and probably the same per cited diff. I think Mouse and Mallinson are probably the same per the repeated advertisements at WT:MED. So that leaves a connection to Tannim and 185? 185 does seem to be sometimes connected but not always, probably due to owner of the address (see talk page). Tannim I think might be Mallinson also based on the use of at least one phrase in common on talk pages. But at the least, there is clear meatpuppetry here. And at least one of these users has a clear COI with edited topics based on a quick Google.
  • Tannim and Monkey are stale, but Mouse and Mallinson are not. I think a CU request is fair. Izno (talk) 20:35, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Izno: TheMouseMen and TMallinson are  Confirmed. no No comment with respect to IP address(es). Spicy (talk) 01:56, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Having mulled those results for a bit, I think the right approach is blocks for the two confirmed for the failure to observe their WP:COI and socking on top of that. I'm not sure what to do about the older accounts, perhaps blocks on suspicion or just leave alone? I'll be busy for the next couple weeks so someone else should probably issue any blocks. Izno (talk) 20:57, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Blocking and tagging TheMouseMan and TMallinson as CU confirmed, and the behavioral evidence is enough to warrant blocks on Imaginarium Monkey and Tannim101 as well. Normally I might not bother with the inactive ones, but in this case it seems necessary since the accounts show a tendency to go inactive for long periods before reactivating.  Clerk assistance requested: Tannim101 is the oldest account, please change the case title to that account. The WordsmithTalk to me 22:39, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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