Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/NLA-Collections

NLA-Collections

NLA-Collections (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

Populated account categories: suspected

17 November 2025

– This SPI case is closed and will be archived shortly by an SPI clerk or checkuser.

Suspected sockpuppets

• Saysinclair (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Recordsdetective (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Footy Archivist (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Aww001 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• DustyStuff (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Griffith8 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Tools: Editor interaction utility · Interaction Timeline · SPI Tools

Articles about John Guest were previously deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Guest (researcher and author) in January, and by G7 in September at Draft:John Guest (author). Another page on the subject is now at AfD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Lindsay Robert Guest. The first article about Guest was created by NLA-Connections, the second seems to have mostly been edited by DustyStuff, and the third was created by Recordsdetective and has been edited by Saysinclair.

These accounts are all pretty much SPAs for Guest. The earliest account, NLA-Collections, was softblocked for a username violation in January, but the first four listed accounts are all active and are engaged in widespread WP:REFSPAM of his research.

• High level of page overlap between the accounts: [1]
• Similar refspam of Guest's research:
  • Saysinclair: [2], [3]
  • Recordsdetective: [4] [5] [6] [7]
  • Footy Archivist: [8] [9] [10]
  • Aww001: [11] [12]
  • DustyStuff: [13] [14]

I've also included Griffith8, who has only made two edits but has declared that they are the subject of the article.

Requesting checkuser as I suspect I might have missed other accounts engaged in the same refspamming of Guest's work on other pages. MCE89 (talk) 14:03, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

• NLA-Collections is  Stale. The rest are  Confirmed to each other. PhilKnight (talk) 15:09, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
• Tagging as suspected. Closing. PhilKnight (talk) 15:12, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

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