Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mrm7171

Mrm7171

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07 June 2020

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

Suspected sockpuppets

• Sportstir (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Psych999 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Mattbrown69 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• 121.91.164.65 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))

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Originally an editor who went by Mrm7171 (and other names such as Psych999 and Mattbrown69, and the IP address 121.91.164.65) followed me around changing my edits on a daily basis. Eventually Mrm7171 was banned from WP. Since January 2020, another editor, Sportstir, began undoing my edits in much the same manner as Mrm7171. Sportstir concentrated on the same subject matter as Mrm7171, namely, occupational stress, which took him/her to the occupational health psychology and industrial and organizational psychology etries. Sportstir's edits were like Mrm7171's, in that they centered on the topic of work-related stress, which crosses over encyclopedia entries. You can check the contributions of Sportstir. His/her edits are directed mostly at me. If you check the contributions of Mrm7171, you will see that his/her edits are directed mostly at me.

Much of the editing by Mrm7171 and Sportstir has been to give industrial and organizational psychology a larger place in research on job stress and to reduce the role of occupational health psychology in that research. I know that this seems petty but there is evidence from the prominent i/o psychologist Paul Spector [1] that i/o psychology came late to the study of job stress. Of course i/o psychology deserves credit for studying job stress. But it is not the center of research on job stress. No one field is the center of that research.

Appropos of the above, Sportstir and I had a disagreement about the word "particularly." Here is that diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Occupational_stress&diff=955994269&oldid=955824215 No one area within psychology is "particularly" above any other area in terms of research and practice with regard to occupational stress, a topic that crosses disciplinary boundaries. That is the only view I was trying to express. But Sportstir continued to single out i/o psychology as the most important field in the area of occupational stress. I have since suggested that we recognize fields outside of psychology that have contributed to our understanding of job stress including sociology and occupational health and safety.

I have made more than 12,000 edits on WP. Most are on psychology-related topics (e.g., fluid and crystallized intelligence; psychometrics; the psychologist Isidor Chein). I am a research psychologist and professor of psychology. I have been in the field for 40 years. What made me suspicious of Sportstir is that most of Sportstir's edits were directed at me. It is certainly true that other editors can modify or delete my edits. That's fine. But it is unusual for one editor to single out the edits of one other editor and one topic to the exclusion of the large number of editors who contribute to WP and the vast number of topics WP covers. The majority of Sportstir's edits are directed at undoing my edits. Iss246 (talk) 18:00, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

• Both Sportstir (block log) and Iss246 (block log)have been blocked for their edit war. No diffs were provided tying Sportstir to any of the accounts which have not been used in >6 years. I'm no archaeologist nor is the SPI process a cat's paw to be used in an edit war. Closing. Cabayi (talk) 07:24, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

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