Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CollinsShelby/Archive

Report date May 7 2009, 15:39 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Dawn Bard (talk)

These 8 brand new users all registered new accounts within about 30 minutes of each other, and went on to collectively make 19 edits to Historical Jesus that deleted sourced material and added what looks like a whole tonne of original research, nearly doubling the length of the article and changing its tone.,, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions
 * All blocked and tagged. Tiptoety  talk 00:49, 8 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Post-block followup, comment
 * A request was made to unblock-en-l indicating that these were accounts used for a historical religion class, and that there had been a class activity to try and improve the Historical Jesus article. This has been confirmed by the college professor involved.  I am unblocking the set of accounts along with some notifications of what happened - they've been asked to use talk pages and identify themselves as connected to a class project.  They are collaborating accounts per our meatpuppetry policy and if accounts associated with this start acting abusively in the future may be treated as such.  Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 19:19, 11 May 2009 (UTC)