Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Camdoc2001/Archive

13 December 2012

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The Wikimedia Foundation received complaints regarding the article Noah Musingku. In the course of investigation, we were struck by the similarity of some usernames (Philosopheroflaws and International-law) and the similar editing techniques of the four accused accounts. As this is a BLP that is not in compliance with BLP standards as set by either the project or the Board of Trustees, it has the potential to be harmful to multiple parties: the subject, the Foundation and the projects. Respectfully request that a checkuser identify whether any links exist between these four users and enforce project rules regarding sockpuppetry. Although WMF staff have access to the checkuser tool for particular, regimented uses, investigation of content issues is outside of the approved guidelines for staff using the tool, as it is a task that properly falls to the community, thus this report. Thank you. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 20:53, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' I propose User:Solomon7777777 (currently indeffed) as the probable first sockmaster here. This certainly too stale for checkuser, but since the problem seems to be arising again I thought I'd mention him. He shared the subject matter interest, the pro-Musingku viewpoint, and the willingness to edit deceptively.Xymmax So let it be written   So let it be done  14:50, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * Per the similiar edits to that article and cross over in edit summaries, I have ran the check. ✅ all except Camdoc2001 who is . -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  21:10, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Based on behavioral evidence and the above checkuser, I've blocked them all as sockpuppets of Camdoc2001, the oldest account. Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:21, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

02 February 2013

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Obviously same behaviour as earlier socks at Bougainville Island and related articles David Biddulph (talk) 22:28, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

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 * CU isn't particularily forthcoming about the DUCK connection between these users, so I'm just going to block them. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  03:55, 3 February 2013 (UTC)