Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/De Medicis/Archive

25 December 2012

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They have admitted they are a sock puppet, of sorts, here.(I believe). They are also editing the same article, and despite attempts by Wikipedians to work with them, they keep editing Karen McCrimmon, adding non-neutral content and facts from unreliable sources. It's a pretty obvious COI. The article was started by the user with the same name, btw. SarahStierch (talk) 23:39, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

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I am no sock puppet. I am helping my mother (De Medecis/ Edgar Poe) who admitted having used two accounts by accident - because she did not realise that the English and French wikipedia were interconnected.

Her first language is French and she is not very technically savvy so she makes such mistakes innocently. She is under a lot of pressure by all the wikipedians attacking her. You are not a very welcoming community.

She is partly affiliated with Karen McCrimmon, and offered to help build up her wiki pages. So yes, that can be perceived as a COI. But she has added lots of valid sources and made it more neutral.

I hope this can clear things up.

Nathalie J. Caron (talk) 21:42, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * As per Nathalie's comment above, this definitely appears to be a simple mistake. However, I would encourage you to read Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline if you haven't already. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:34, 2 January 2013 (UTC)