Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Backsllash/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



 * &mdash; (New on March 30) This user seems to have been created solely to get around the rule against authors removing speedy deletion templates from articles they created.

Evidence submitted by ShadowRangerRIT
Creation of pages on topics of extremely dubious notability, followed by another one of the socks chiming in on the accompanying talk page with how "they've heard of this", or "can vouch for it". Generally each sock is creating one page, and commenting on one other article's talk page, with no other edits. Their contribs (or deleted contribs since I've speedy nom-ed most of their articles) should be sufficiently short to examine in their entirety. &mdash;ShadowRanger (talk 19:25, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by &mdash;ShadowRanger (talk 19:25, 29 March 2010 (UTC)


 * We might have a gaggle of roommates or friends horsing around a bit. Looks like we have two pairs. TThe first pair are matches for each other:
 * And the second pair are matches for each other:
 * The pairs may or may not be related; my guess would be that they know each other. I might advise against being too harsh, here; they'll probably cut this out once called on it. – Luna Santin  (talk) 01:05, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Reviewing the contribs, it seems we have two people knowing each other in real life. I'm blocking and  indefinitely, and warning them to stick with one account per person. Tim Song (talk) 22:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The pairs may or may not be related; my guess would be that they know each other. I might advise against being too harsh, here; they'll probably cut this out once called on it. – Luna Santin  (talk) 01:05, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Reviewing the contribs, it seems we have two people knowing each other in real life. I'm blocking and  indefinitely, and warning them to stick with one account per person. Tim Song (talk) 22:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The pairs may or may not be related; my guess would be that they know each other. I might advise against being too harsh, here; they'll probably cut this out once called on it. – Luna Santin  (talk) 01:05, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Reviewing the contribs, it seems we have two people knowing each other in real life. I'm blocking and  indefinitely, and warning them to stick with one account per person. Tim Song (talk) 22:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)