Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CHackbart/Archive

14 August 2012

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Multiple accounts created to promote DVBViewer, however they now heavily active in the articles deletion debate. --Hu12 (talk) 14:47, 14 August 2012 (UTC) Hu12 (talk) 14:47, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
 * It would appear that is responsible for the article re-creation (as evidenced by this post) and is also an administrator named hackbart and author of DVBViewer..--Hu12 (talk) 20:08, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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It is correct that I created my account on en.wikipedia.org on 14 August 2012 shortly after a notice in DVBViewer's support forum. As an active user of the software I read the notice and in my personal opinion DVBViewer definetly is notable. Since I didn't have an account on en.wikipeadia.org at that time (SUL username was allready taken, but there is an usurpation request running right now) and didn't want to contribute anonymously (in the hope of not beeing accused a sockpuppet) I created a new account. Patrick 1bc0 (talk) 19:45, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I just found this page an realized Hu12 is suspecting me being a sockpuppet. This is clearly not the case!

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Closing this one: It is apparent now that these single-purpose editors were inspired/recruited through off-wiki communications, but are not directly controlled by the same person. While frowned upon we don't block for it in cases like this: the accounts may be distracting, but they are not damaging, and can indeed be helpful. Finding rough consensus in a deletion discussion should ideally only consider strength of argument, not the number of bolded words. Thus I don't see anything left to do here. Amalthea  14:53, 23 August 2012 (UTC)