Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Amnesty2009/Archive

Report date March 30 2009, 22:54 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Aleta  Sing

Beginning December 1, 2008, and escalating more recently, there have been a series of single purpose accounts making only one or two edits a piece to William F. Schultz (a WP:BLP).

In, User:Amnesty2009 adds unsourced negative allegations about Schulz.

A different user reverted those actions. Thereafter follows a series of edits by the suspected sockpuppets removing unsourced positive/neutral content or adding negative unsourced content. The page was protected today because of BLP concerns.

In, JammyBear makes a mass content deletion. It was reverted.

In and, Paulist makes additional mass deletions and then tags the page.

In, IP 72.161.240.29 removes a section, but with the rationale that the source did not support the text (an assertion I have not verified or denied).

In, JAKO09 adds unsourced negative content.

In, 2008Bhutto undoes a reversion of JAKO09's addition with a false claim of adding sources in the edit summary.

In, Welch52 makes a large deletion asserting that the source cited did not support the (neutral) text.

--Aleta  Sing 22:54, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions
 * I've blocked all listed accounts indef and the listed IP for 2 weeks. The "master" account Amnesty2009 was not blocked because there is too large of a time gap for me to model the behavior on. If the account becomes active and follows similar patterns on the same article as these other accounts did, please re-open this case. Please open similar cases of edits to that article matching that pattern to this casepage. (use the buttons at the main SPI page to create the case here). ——  nix eagle email me 03:01, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Please tag and close. ——  nix eagle email me 03:01, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Accounts tagged, nothing left to do here. —  Jake   Wartenberg  03:10, 31 March 2009 (UTC)