Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Craigrc13/Archive

Report date May 24 2009, 03:25 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Frankie1969

Sudden blitz of vandalism to Ferniegair, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Crawford, South Lanarkshire, and other locations in Scotland.

In particular, Craigrc13, 81.140.45.2, 81.156.245.177, and 90.210.254.12 all wrote about Euan Malcolmson in at least one vandalism.


 * Frankie1969 (talk) 03:25, 24 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

Some technical evidence here:
 * and are on national ISPs and impossible to geolocate.
 * and geolocate to Manchester and London respectively. Both use different ISPs.
 * is possibly related but their only edit is a bit of vandalism on a page some of the others have edited. The vandalism isn't similar so I'm not blocking.

Given the evidence, I would say we are looking at meatpuppetry or a group of people, but given the edits, I am considering them all to be the same given the purpose of editing. As such, I have indef'd Craigrc and blocked all the listed IPs for 2 weeks. As mentioned, I am not considering Usmananwar69 part of this investigation yet. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 13:42, 24 May 2009 (UTC)