Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Chimeraweaver/Archive

Report date November 25 2009, 04:16 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

All three accounts showing the same focus on the former Texas School Survey article and the Texas Department of State Health Services article, with each consistently making the same promo style edits. When Drugfreetexas' first edit was reverted by linkbot, Chimera popped up moments later to restore sans the bot triggering links. Apparently someone at this place is trying to promote the survey or do some PR work. -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 04:16, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs)


 * More than one person, other than myself, is contributing to this article from the same computer. Call it what you like, but it's not easy keeping up with the reverts by Collectonian and the others. I wish you guys would make it clearer why you removed our edits. I don't have time to read five pages of reasons why the removals took place. BTW, we don't work for DSHS just because we cite a government website page.  - user: Chimeraweaver  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chimeraweaver (talk • contribs) 04:41, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 * It is clearly noted in the edit summaries and in the numerous warnings on your talk page why they were removed. Multiple people using the same computer to make the same edits to the same article is meatpuppetry and not that different from sockpuppetry in this case, as there is no way to verify that you are actually multiple people. Your only edits among you seem to be to promote the Texas State Survey, which is what makes it seem like you have some conflicts of interest, not your random linking to government websites. -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 04:53, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

--The LinkBot automatically detected one of the website links shared the same words as the username of another editor and unjustly assumed conflict of interest based solely on this. That was a false assumption, so I reverted that edit and now we are being accused of a "meatpuppetry" conspiracy and doing "public relations" for a government agency, rather than merely raising awareness about it and its online activities. Nevertheless, I rarely edit pages but would like to continue editing the DSHS page in the future and will be the only editor from this computer doing so. In this effort, I would appreciate any polite guidance from the Wikipedia authorities rather than off-the-cuff accusations from editors like Collectonian. Collectoninan, you seem to have an unusual interest in the pages covering Texas DSHS and its State School Survey over the past months. How many pages do you watch over every day? - This commment made by user: Chimeraweaver —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chimeraweaver (talk • contribs) 17:21, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Linkbot did not unjustly assume a conflict of interest, it properly reverted the addition of inappropriate social links. Multiple WP:SPA accounts hitting a single set of articles with clearly promotional tones would raise red flags for any editor. Wikipedia is not here to "raise awareness" about an organization nor its activities. It is an encyclopedia. If a topic is notable, it will have an article, which includes neutrally worded, relevant, and reliably sourced information. How is my interest "unusual"? It came to my attention through your initial and beyond inappropriate efforts to spam links to your new article on hundreds of pages. There is nothing unusual about that, and of course I will continue to keep an eye on it after seeing the inappropriate activities that were going on. How many pages I watch is irrelevant and I really don't see the point of your question, but its also not like its private info. I currently have 1126 pages on my watchlist. -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 17:34, 25 November 2009 (UTC)


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 * Comments by other users

Requested by -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 04:16, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * They've said they'll be from the same IP, and behavioral evidence is strong here anyways. Check's not needed. GrooveDog FOREVER 00:58, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Socks indefinitely blocked and tagged. Chimeraweaver has been warned about sock puppetry. I'm not buying the "multiple people use this computer" excuse, especially when the edits by the socks came immediately after their creations and during a rather heated situation. MuZemike 03:15, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions