Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Casonj/Archive

04 February 2014

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

This might be just a case of WP:MEATPUPPETry because this sofware was developed by a group of just about as many collaborators as there are "keep" votes in Articles for deletion/Flora-2, but a CU can at least determine if they all come from the same institutional IPs, etc. (Beware that there are two universities involved in this project.) However, some of the accounts have no prior edits suggesting any interest in this topic and otherwise have a sparse but years-long wikihistory suggest as an alternative explanation that someone might be running a sock drawer. Someone not using his real name (talk) 16:45, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

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This is idiotic. Actually I learned about Flora-2 from Wikipedia and was impressed with what it did. I have no connection to the developers or the development of the program. I'm a computational linguist and a philosopher who finds it very noteworthy. Casonj (talk) 23:02, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
It's worth a look. My guess is that it'll be inconclusive as I'm thinking they all edited from uni computers, but we might get lucky if they edited from home. No issue at all if the CU decides it's not worth it. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:46, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
 * The accounts are technically ❌, but Michaelkifer's edits to the AfD make me think that at least some of them know one another. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:06, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I've left a comment on the Afd appraising the closing admin of likely meatpuppetry, closing case now. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:43, 5 February 2014 (UTC)