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20 April 2020

Suspected sockpuppets

• Cleovulcan ( talk ⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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Seems unlikely that two unconnected editors have singular interests in Catalent and ImClone Systems. In fact both seem to be drawn almost entirely to edits on pharmaceutical companies which mirror company announcements, e.g. "FDA approval on migraine treatment drug" and "Catabasis announces underwritten public offering". Additional behavior:

• Both update infoboxes with financial report data [1] [2].
• Both use identical idiosyncratic language in edit summaries
  • "clean up"
  • "removed red links from page" [3] [4]
  • "removed red link from infobox" [5] [6]
  • "removed red links from page" [7] [8]
  • Referring to article text as "copy" [9] [10]
• Similar formatting and content of initial edits to userpage [11] [12]

Signed here ☆ Bri ( talk) 23:24, 20 April 2020 (UTC) reply

If this checks out, there's another less pharma-centric user who uses "copy" in their edit summary. ☆ Bri ( talk) 00:14, 21 April 2020 (UTC) reply

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

• I've blocked the sock indef and given the master a warning. Closing. Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 12:42, 21 April 2020 (UTC) reply
  • @ Callanecc: Cleovulcan is not blocked. —  JJMC89 ( T· C) 04:01, 22 April 2020 (UTC) reply
    • Done now. Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 05:07, 22 April 2020 (UTC) reply