Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Angdl/Archive

Report date February 13 2009, 13:26 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by

An AfD is currently underway at Articles for deletion/Napoleon Dagalea where has been, not unreasonably, loudly defending his article on Filipino model Napoleon Dagalea. The AfD began at 14:20 on 10 February. It received a large number of "delete" opinions from established editors until 06:20 on 13 February, "keep" opinions started to appear.

The four accounts in question were all created in the same period of time:


 * 05:42, 13 February 2009 Sophiabalt
 * 06:47, 13 February 2009 Cerissesinclair
 * 09:47, 13 February 2009 Goldersthink
 * 10:46, 13 February 2009 Orceaoza

Sophiabait adds themselves to Tambayan Philippines/Roster almost immediately then an hour later goes to the AfD and votes to keep. Then they edit their userpage to note that they're too busy to edit at the moment

Cerissesinclair creates their userpage ("Hi, I'm new") then immediately votes "keep" in the AfD  using a Wikipedia shortcut in their post (WP:BASH)  and bolding the text written by Angdl

Goldersthink goes straight to the AfD and votes "keep" then creates their userpage to note that they're too busy to edit at the moment ("I am a filipino. I major in accountancy. I will update my page as soon as I get back my free time"). Then they head to WP:RFPP and request that Napoleon Dagalea is protected to stop AfD people editing it

Orceaoza goes straight to the AfD and votes "keep" then creates a userpage ("sandbox"). They then return to the AfD and bold Angdl's other text

All of the above have a typing style in common with Angdl - specifically, being forceful but still remaining reasonable and conceding points made by other people. There is also the use of the word "creator" to refer to Angdl by the puppets and by Angdl themself

The IP is a bit odd, turning up out of nowhere to claim that adding SPA tags to the above voters is a personal attack. Angdl then removes the sockmaster tag from his userpage, noting that editing that page is "rude".


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

Added Epax54 to the above list. Created around the same time as the rest (05:15, 13 February 2009). Initial edits were to mess around with the afd template on the article. Later they simply removed the afd template. Then they created a userpage. The link they put on their userpage makes me think that some of these new accounts might not be socks, but instead could have come about through innocent enough canvassing on the subject's friendster profile. --Onorem♠Dil 14:09, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users

My belief was that Epax54 is directly recruited via being a social networking friend of the article's subject. The other four, I believe, are one person; and I suspect that one person to be Angdl, who may be Napoleon Dagalea himself. I personally don't think that Epax54 == Angdl. ➨ ❝ЯEDVERS❞ dedicated to making a happy man very old 14:18, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Please note that the socks did not affect the result of the debate, regardless I am blocking indef: As socks of the master account. ——  nix eagle email me 17:51, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

- Any further action needed? Tiptoety talk 23:50, 18 February 2009 (UTC)