Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ashwil.26/Archive

04 September 2015

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These similarly named accounts both created articles on a similar topic, health in Australia, both used the edit summary "go live" when moving the article to article space, and both shared a pattern of creating the article in their sandbox before moving it over just about 4 days later when they had autoconfirmed. Sam Walton (talk) 23:20, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Just added Sean mccooey and Ashwil.26, who shared the pattern of writing "go live", and Cpotts96 whose article topic was a little too close to Sean's for me to leave them out, as well as the fact that they moved their article at around the same time as the others. Mtaberner20 is another step along, having written about the same topic as Cpotts96 and moved their article within the same day. Sam Walton (talk) 23:26, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I've just looked at Ldawe's contributions, and was about to add them and the accounts whose pages they moved to this list, when I found a link to an editathon from February they attended. I suspect it might actually be the case that these articles were published as part of an editathon, but I can't find any evidence of which that would have been. A bit unsure now. Sam Walton (talk) 23:32, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the confusion, was primarily hoping for some more opinions. I'll leave it with the current accounts, I can't find any evidence of an editathon having occurred around their time and I still find it suspicious. Sam Walton (talk) 09:09, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I received this message today, it does indeed appear that this was a school project. See also this. Sam Walton (talk) 13:48, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
 * There is indeed two projects that have taken place at University of Notre Dame Australia Fremantle campus in conjunction with Wikimedia Australia the first project occurred in April involved 120 students primarily just editting existing content. The second project involved about 90 students(not sure of any overlap between projects) with creation of new articles initially in the students sandboxes which have in the last couple of days been moved to article space the use of the edit summary would be because thats the edit summary I used when demonstrating how move their work during tutorials. and myself have been giving lectures and providing the wikipedia editing assistance at tutorials. Gnangarra 00:02, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * I can understand why you don't want to add Ldawe (see GLAM/Australian libraries and WP/Events/2015 ALIA Workshops/Perth), but you sound like you're unsure about all the accounts. Why is that? More important, it's not clear what you want now. So, I've put the case on hold until I hear from you. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:03, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I started the check and immediately ran into a very large number of accounts all editing from the University of Notre Dame in Australia. It looks like administrator is perhaps the most knowledgeable about what I now assume to be a legitimate project, and I would appreciate their commenting here. Also see this discussion. I've put this case back on hold.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:51, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
 * No socking. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:25, 6 September 2015 (UTC)