Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Alistair daniel/Archive

14 July 2013

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Apparent evidence of sockpuppetry, with three separate accounts with similar edit history on Chris Bascombe article. The three accounts have only ever made edits on the article itself, or associated user talk pages and AFDs and all three have been used to promote the deletion of sections of the article relating to 'controversies' from the subject's career; possibly as an attempt to build a false consensus in edit warring and to influence AFDs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Edgar_Baron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Alistair_Daniel  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/90.206.189.223    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2.216.144.186

Generally similar in writing style, similar trend of edits and seem to be single purpose users... This particular edit would appear to have taken place when Alistair Daniel account had been banned for 24 hours for edit warring: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chris_Bascombe&diff=530419312&oldid=530379608 ... as was this edit by Edgar Baron http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chris_Bascombe&diff=530436009&oldid=530434989. Possible user used sockpuppet accounts to get round ban. Petepetepetepete (talk) 19:47, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * Add to the list of accounts to be checked. SPA used on same article.  Number   5  7  22:10, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

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Assuming the accounts are owned by the same person, I see no flagrant violation of the sockpuppetry policy. Alistair daniel only has one edit this year, and it's a full two months away from any of the edits by Edgar_Baron. In summary, nothing here is really actionable.

--(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 19:10, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Closed. Rschen7754 11:04, 16 July 2013 (UTC)