Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Alexpton/Archive

24 March 2016

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Both these accounts have made systematic addition of hoax information. The following points recur in them: fake articles on historical topics with somewhat plausible detail and sourcing (for example, an English aristocratic title named Count of Skippool, a fake triangle trade company named Crompton Atlantic) and citations to obscure books, but which show no signs of being true. Many of the articles have referenced Canada, the family name Crompton and the north-west English coast. Fake articles created: Count of Skippool (fake title, claimed to be held by 'Alex Crompton'), an article on Alex Crompton (I haven't seen this since it was deleted by someone else), Crompton Atlantic (fake company), Altair Island (a possibly real island, but falsely claimed to be a business centre, location of Crompton Atlantic's offices & tax haven). Also much dubious information added to turn a redirect for the hamlet of Skippool into an article, claiming a tiny hamlet to be a major port, headquarters of 'Crompton Atlantic' and centre of smuggling, and to the George Crompton article, claiming Alex Crompton to be his descendent. Both accounts also show a similar-sounding interest in winches and gearing, which was George Crompton's field of expertise. Blythwood (talk) 20:39, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * The two accounts are clearly working together, and clearly exist for the purpose of hoaxing, so I have blocked them both indefinitely. Whether they were operated by one person or by two people acting together makes no difference, as the end result is the same. They have put quite a bit of work into making their editing superficially look plausible, using such techniques as mixing bits of truth into camouflage the lies, linking to fake references which either don't exist or don't support the claimed information, and using references to unreliable sources, very probably created by the same person(s) who used these accounts. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 21:47, 24 March 2016 (UTC)