Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Diegrane/Archive

Evidence submitted by Moby-Dick3000
The below four edits made to the Paella article are nearly identical. They insist the word paella is a Valencian word when in fact citations prove that it's of Catalan origin. In one case, the editor removed a citation disproving his point. The following edits are in reverse chronological order and are all by anonymous editors.


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Because of these edits, an administrator recently placed a semi block on the Paella article which has since expired:
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However another identical edit has since appeared but this time by user Diegrane:
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Diegrane then made two very similar edits to the Arròs negre article:
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I believe what's happened here is that one editor used four different IP addresses to make four identical edits to the paella article, resulting in the semi block. Then, he created an account and made the same edit to the Paella article after the semi block expired. He then moved on to the Arros negre article and made similarly biased, uncited edits. Moby-Dick3000 (talk) 22:04, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by Moby-Dick3000 (talk) 18:19, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

– the IPs are clearly Diegrane (who has finally decided to create an account). No CU necessary. –MuZemike 00:29, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Warned Diegrane about edit-warring. As far as 3RR is concerned, the user is nowhere near it, even taking in the IPs. We want to encourage people to create accounts as well, so there is no abusive sock puppetry here for what it's worth. –MuZemike 00:29, 1 March 2010 (UTC)