Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AlaMenthe/Archive

29 January 2013

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Hoax Vanda Varvara (AfD), this SPA's only creation, demonstrated a significant familiarity with Wikipedia guidelines and a clear knowledge of how to format an article so as to completely slip under the radar of patrollers and copy-editors. I know the trail might be cold after a year, but in light of the fact that the hoax was first reported by a trolling IP (.13, who as .205 trolled the AfD as well) almost exactly a year after AlaMenthe first created it, I think it's possible that 87.51.164.xxx is AlaMenthe blowing the whistle on xyrself, to get the recognition of having pulled off a hoax like this. Obviously I understand that CU's can't comment on the IPs, but I think this should provide enough probable cause to run a check and see if AlaMenthe is indeed still active. (So to be clear, while I've included the IPs as suspects, the far more important question is how xe learned such good wiki markup and knew how to game the system so well.)  — PinkAmpers  &#38;  ( Je vous invite à me parler )  02:13, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * With such a teeny sample of edits to look at from the IPs, as well as the apparently highly dynamic range of the IP addresses, I doubt they could be conclusively linked by technical evidence to any editor. Someguy1221 (talk) 02:18, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * - Not only can I not release the connection to IP except in cases of extreme abuse, there is no evidence to indicate more accounts have spawned. Without that, clerks/admins can make a behavioral connection that can be dealt with and solve the solution for now. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  04:57, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Closing. I have no doubt that they're the same person, but it seems more like a case of "the IP decided to get an account." Rschen7754 08:12, 29 January 2013 (UTC)