Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bbarton01/Archive

08 March 2011

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Puppetry at Articles_for_deletion/Pot_of_Gold_Theory. Highly questionable article created by 4-edit-only SPA account. Suspected socks have similar grammar, similar misunderstanding of Wikipedia, and have only edited in this AfD discussion. T RANSPORTER M AN  (TALK ) 14:11, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

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 * As stated on the page in question, I am absolutely not the same person as Smith4747, but I did create this username on his IP address so I understand the assumption. In the interest of not feeling completely violated I will not offer any more evidence than that.  I also was not defending the article to merely support his view - I clearly had a different issue relating to WP:RS.OrionsGaze (talk) 21:53, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * and are ✅ matches to each other. The other accounts geolocate to the same area, but are on different ISPs. I would say the other are  matches, but meatpuppetry is a strong possibility.  TN X Man  15:25, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Tagged SPAs/meats @ AFD. Now awaiting admin to block these single purpose accounts. DQ.alt (t)  (e)    18:26, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
 * אֶפְרָתָה also has blocked socks @ the AFD. Possible meats of him? Ideas? DQ.alt (t)  (e)    18:38, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged allt he socks. I'm slightly disinclined to block the master here. And I'm not sure about the attachment to אֶפְרָתָה. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 00:19, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Agreed in hesitant about master. Lets leave for now, next time, if there is one, we'll hit harder. As for the connection, there is no behavoiral that will connect it, and a CU of wiki already said the data was, so let's just leave things the way they are. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  06:54, 10 March 2011 (UTC)