Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/63.3.19.129/Archive

17 March 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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While I'm filing this SPI, I'm not sure if anything can be done by the admins. The three IPs appear to be used by the same person which hasn't been a problem until today when they are making multiple !votes in AfDs: The relatedness can be seen in Articles for deletion/UFC 140 (2nd nomination) where .129 responds to a thread partly initiated by .130 and Shark Fights 18 (linked above) where .130 responds to a thread started by .1.
 * Articles for deletion/BAMMA 9: !votes by .129 and .130
 * Articles for deletion/Shark Fights 18: !votes by .1 and .129

I suppose it is possible there is a registered user that is also related to the IPs, however, I have no evidence or particular suspicions to say so. I realize these may be dynamic IPs which makes it more difficult to sanction, however, all activity in terms of disrupting AfDs appears confined to these three IP addresses. TreyGeek (talk) 15:54, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

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 * I've been in these discussions and had not noticed the similarities before, but the diffs provided are quacking loudly in my ears, too close for coincidence, imho. Dennis Brown (talk) 22:57, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I've struck the comments in the three AFDs mentioned here. Dennis Brown (talk) 23:56, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * They are, obviously, all the same. In addition, I have reason to believe that they come from a banned user, so I would recommend to strike them all. Range already blocked. Amalthea  23:37, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

24 April 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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 * Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UFC 142
 * Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UFC 143
 * Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UFC 146
 * Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UFC on Fox: Evans vs. Davis
 * Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UFC on FX: Guillard vs. Miller

Creating an illusion of support: Alternative accounts must not be used to give the impression of more support for a position than actually exists.

Contributing to the same page or discussion with multiple accounts: Editors may not use more than one account to contribute to the same page or discussion in a way to suggest that they are multiple people. Contributions to the same page with clearly linked legitimate alternative accounts is not forbidden (e.g. editing the same page with your main and public computer account or editing a page using your main account that your bot account edited). Newmanoconnor (talk) 22:18, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

I removed a few usernames, I was on my iPad editing and a couple of editors appeared to have only edited since these AfD's began. I just looked at all the contribs on my home pc and see that at least 3 of them have been editing since March. I may be totally wrong here, but I'd rather someone more experienced like the MuZemike and an admin check things out than not report something suspicious.Newmanoconnor (talk) 23:17, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

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The only page that I commented in those related was Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UFC 142, but I make about 3 edits, and realizing that I just didn't had any contribuing argument, I just gave up, so, I don't even know why my account is related here, but, to defend myself, you can look all my edits, and, as stated MuZemike, my IP is not even close to all the other ones stated here, I'm brazilian, and none of those IP are brazilian Ricardo1701 (talk) 22:46, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Have to laugh at this one. User is apparently unfamiliar with what sockpuppetry is. IPs from all over the world, yet they seem to think we are all one person. Not sockpuppetry, just a group of like minded folks who disagree with their arguments. Please, stop wasting Wikipedia's monitors/mediators time with such a frivolous accusation. Udar55 (talk) 22:48, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
– The IPs are all from separate parts of the world, and it looks like the behaviors from all the registered accounts above seem to be different. This is combined with the fact that the entire online MMA community is at war odds with the Wikipedia community. I'm afraid there is no justification of sockpuppetry, let alone to run CU, in this specific case. --MuZemike 22:26, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Nothing to do here. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 00:54, 25 April 2012 (UTC)