Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Djbarnes/Archive

Report date May 30 2009, 16:09 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Fabrictramp

Djbarnes created the Barnegat Fund Management article, which I came across during dead end tagging. While doing a routine check for sources, I discovered COI issues and a high probablility that it wasn't notable, so I tagged with COI and prod.

8 minutes later, Justinlexington, as his first edit, removed the prod tag and all maintenance tags, with an edit summary of "Totally reworked this to make it neutral and not written by an insider. Much more to come.". Other than comments on four talk pages of articles about companies in the same industry, Justinlexington has made no edits other than this article, the talk page, and the AfD.

20 minutes after Justinlexington was told by another editor that he could not !vote twice in the AfD, FredBund made his first edit to Wikipedia, supporting Justinlexington and Djbarnes in the AfD. FredBund's only Wikipedia edit outside of the AfD has been to place an incorrect tag in the article; Justinlexington placed a tag and a tag in the same article the day before.-- Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  16:09, 30 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

We're possibly looking at meat puppetry here, but as the accounts have suspicious edits in relation to the AfD, they have been considered the same for the purpose of editing. Two socks blocked indefinitely; master blocked for 72 hours with a warning. All tagged (excluding the master). Peter Symonds ( talk ) 17:08, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Report date June 1 2009, 14:39 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Dawn Bard

Per Sockpuppet investigations/Djbarnes/Archive, 2 users have already been indefinitely blocked for trying to stack an AFD debate, with Djbarnes getting a 72 hour block. The sock votes at the AFD were struck, and brand new user GangUpOnMe showed up to restore the "keep" votes and strike some "delete" votes and the mention of the previous sock investigation. Dawn Bard (talk) 14:39, 1 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions
 * Blocked the sock, please tag/archive. ——  nix eagle email me 15:22, 1 June 2009 (UTC)