Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BazzaHarp

BazzaHarp

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For archived investigations, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BazzaHarp/Archive.

12 April 2017

– This SPI case is open.

Suspected sockpuppets

• Prof PD Hoy (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• 58.106.29.53 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))

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Both accounts only add work by Paul Harpur to articles. Even though BazzaHarp is technically older, that account didn't make a single edit until Prof PD Hoy racked up warnings about spamming articles. Then Hoy went dormant and Harp began making the same edits to the same articles (both adding Harpur information to Social model of disability, Disability abuse)

• Prof PD Hoy examples include 1, 2, 3
• BazzaHarp examples include 1, 2, and 3. Justeditingtoday (talk) 03:15, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

I just found 58.106.29.53 who was making the same edits to promote Harpur. Justeditingtoday (talk) 03:24, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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This seems like a rather tortured connection. Further, Justherefortheday has been involved in a series of highly aberrant, disruptive edits in which he is removing vast quantities of unambiguously RS material (for example: [1], [2], [3], and more than three dozen other examples) - primarily legal journals - if it's authored by Paul Harpur (ostensibly on the grounds it's "self promotion", though I'm not sure how that works). Harpur is a tenured senior lecturer and researcher on disability law at the University of Queensland [4] who has authored many RS on issues of disability law, as a quick JSTOR search confirms, and whose work shows-up frequently in related WP articles as a result. I'm not sure what's going on here, but I'm not sure Justherefortheday is making this report with clean hands. I'm concerned we are having cornerstone research on these issues eviscerated from WP because Harpur may have given a student a bad grade, or some other less-than-GF reason. BlueSalix (talk) 04:03, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

I'm sorry you are so upset that I put your article up for AfD, but WP:WIKIHOUNDING me is not the solution. Justeditingtoday (talk) 04:06, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

I can assure you, I am not WIKIHOUNDING you. When one engages in highly aberrant edits one attracts attention to one's edit history and this shot right out. BlueSalix (talk) 04:16, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

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