Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Arthur Kemp/Archive

09 August 2012

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TheFallenCrowd is quite duckily the same as Arthur Kemp based on style and subject area, the rest are fairly obvious use of dirty socks to provide spurious !voting support, see these three AFDs: first, second,  third, article history, this discussion. I didn't check the checkuser box but feel free if you think it's worth it. JamesHilt62 is the only really curious one--he had some minor formatting edits back in 2010, and then nothing at all until the third AFD, he has a MEDCAB user-box but no evidence of doing anything for MEDCAB. 18:33, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

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 * Please note that at an ANI report in May, it was determined that at least some of these accounts were probably meatpuppets rather than socks. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 16:46, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

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 * I'm seeing a lot of stale edits, known meatpuppetry, and no overlap by the ones that look likely to be the same person, meaning they aren't technically socks. I'm not inclined to block for meatpuppetry in May of this year and since many only edited that one time, it would be fruitless.  Leaving open for now, but I don't see anything to do here and most were already checked via ANI. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 20:54, 19 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Closing this one:
 * The SPAs were looked at as part of the ANI thread. Nothing new has come up, it wasn't shown that there was anything actionable, and the situation and the accounts are stale now.
 * The first edit of TheFallenCrowd would suggest that he is not a new editor. I have not really looked into the contributions, but even if User:Arthur Kemp belonged to the same person, it still wouldn't really be WP:ILLEGIT; not quite as we would have liked it, but not problematic enough to do anything, especially not three years later.
 * Amalthea 12:42, 28 August 2012 (UTC)