Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Carlos Botelho/Archive

Report date May 6 2009, 01:50 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by MSJapan (talk)

User:PTorg has recently made a few edits to Grande Loja Regular de Portugal that I reverted. Upon checking the user's history (which is something I do if I think a user is a troublemaker), I noticed some edits to José Bragança de Miranda. Upon looking at that article, the creator and uploader of the "official photo" of the subject is Carlos Botelho, and the only real editor of the article was PTorg. Carlos Botelho also happens to be the Grand Secretary of one of the GLs in Portugal (I can't figure out which one, but there's a COI there for sure), and tried to spam his own bio article to every WP in existence some time back. Now, apparently to hide his identity, he is sockpuppeting through PTorg, and is generally being combative on the Grande Loja Regular de Portugal article.

I'm not sure that the CU data is even useful, but it seems pretty obvious without it that there is puppetry here.


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

there is a long gap between the last edit of Carlos Botelho and the first of PTorg. Even if the two are the same user, abandoning one account and starting another is not a violation of WP:SOCK Mayalld (talk) 14:14, 6 May 2009 (UTC) Mayalld (talk) 14:14, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions