Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Candicell/Archive

17 August 2013

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Editor interaction says it all. Candicell (blocked disruptive sockmaster) has signed his name DAR, as in Dr Adil Ramzan. Candicell was blocked for adding links to medicotips.com. Dradilramzan also added link to medicotips.com. Note that both accounts are used to edit paid article David Carter (entrepreneur), implying that there is paid socking going on here. Logical Cowboy (talk) 20:22, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

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 * I can confirm that the person behind the Candicell account was hired to add photos to the David Carter article on June 25, and that the photos were added by Dradilramzan. It seems very likely that both accounts are controlled by the same person. However, the last edit by Dradilramzan was on August 2, and Candicell wasn't blocked until August 19. So it might be the case that the Dradilramzan account was being used to evade scrutiny, but it hasn't been used for block evasion. - Bilby (talk) 22:40, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  23:17, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
 * - to confirm socking.
 * It's that the two named accounts are operated by the same person, however meatpuppetry cannot be ruled out.--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  23:11, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Since this appears to be a real-named account and a screen-named account, I'm not going to block the account, since it is possible this was an attempt to be transparent about any conflict of interest. Let us know if other issues start occurring. Closed. Reaper Eternal (talk) 01:44, 28 August 2013 (UTC)