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07 August 2015

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There has been a lot of sockpuppetry and Conflict of Interest violations going on at the page La Salle College High School. Most of these edits seem to be the result of a "public relations" campaign by the school to clean up their image in the wake of a semi-recent scandal of a Priest at this Catholic School saying Mass by a swimming pool. Many Catholic newspapers and blogs covered the incident, so it is certainly notable and verifiable. The school is simply trying to clean up its image, a clear violation of Wikipedia Conflict of Interest policies. This is not the first time the school has withstood scrutiny for its editing and advertisement of its Wikipedia Page. As  this talk page notes, all content put on the page in question is scrutinized by La Salle's director of communications, Mr. Christopher Caribello.

Additionally, there are two other subsets of problems that are notable, those being that

1.) The school is using sockpuppet accounts run by school, as well as directors of communication Christopher Caribello and Braden Bonner, and that

2.) These sockpuppet accounts are repeatedly violating the 3 Revert Rule.

Please investigate this and take any action that is appropriate, including possible protection, dispute mediation, and a sockpuppetry investigation, which has already been opened at the appropriate page. I also would like to propose a WP:Topic Ban against any sockpuppets from the school editing the school's page in light of the recent troubling public-relations and advertising that has been going on.

I believe these accounts are related:


 * Braden.bonner (Director of Communications Braden Bonner)


 * 8605Cheltenham (Director of Communications Christopher Caribello) (8605 Cheltenham is the school's address)


 * 206.169.237.5 (IP editor related to the school, possibly either Bonner or Caribello)


 * 167.220.104.218 (Another IP editor related to the school, possibly either Bonner or Caribello)


 * 2601:44:8501:b3e0:30f5:792c:7be7:df64 (Another IP editor related to the school)


 * 50.199.67.44 (Another IP editor possibly related to the school)

70.192.131.83 (talk) 03:42, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''
 * Without speaking specifically to the sock/COI claims, I can say that the content removed by the alleged socks was definitely problematic in terms of tone and sourcing, and therefore likely couldn't be considered 'disruptive', for what it's worth - though if the intent was to create the illusion of greater support for their position, while unnecessary IMO, it would certainly be inappropriate. AdventurousSquirrel (talk) 18:26, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * A CheckUser check would be useless here. Except in extreme situations (which this is not), CU's are prohibited by policy from publicly associating a user account with an IP address.  And of the two accounts mentioned here, the alleged sockpuppet  has only edited once — almost a year ago — and IP address data available for examination in a CU check goes "stale" and is purged after 90 days, so there would be nothing available for a CU to look at now.  If there is in fact sockpuppetry going on here involving  and one or more of the IP's, this will need to be determined via behavioural evidence alone.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 01:23, 10 August 2015 (UTC)


 * I've notified Braden.bonner on their talk page that an SPI is going on. I also included an explanation of what this means and how they may wish to respond.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 02:29, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
 * FWIW, this is clearly one or more people editing about the school, from the school. 8605Cheltenham has a single edit over a year ago, nothing to do there. What remains is Braden.bonner and a bunch of IPs. I can't find any specific evidence (nor was any presented) that the IPs are used by the same user behind the account (and not by random students, which would be just as plausible). The account has been warned appropriately, and I am opting to SPP the page and close this case with no other action. ☺ ·  Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  23:04, 31 August 2015 (UTC)