Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Douglasclayton/Archive

Evidence submitted by Urbanrenewal
In my normal course of editing and monitoring pages relating to financial firms, I came across this "group of users" with a singleminded focus on Leopard Capital, a barely notable private equity firm investing in Cambodia and a series of closely related articles Douglas W. Clayton (the firm's founder) as well as ACLEDA Bank, Kingdom Breweries, Nautisco Seafood, CamGSM (all Leopard Capital investments). At first, I tried to help this user thinking he was just a new editor that could make productive edits but his behavior has been frustrating. I would note the following observations:
 * Singular focus on Leopard Capital and its portfolio of investments. Initial draft of each related articcle includes mention of Leopard's ownership stake in the company
 * All editors make edits WP:NPOV and WP:ADVERT issues and several have removed tags identifying issues in articles without addressing issues
 * Edits by all users in question tend to be small changes, made in rapid succession without edit summaries
 * Compressed timeframe for articles about obscure topics to go from new to having multiple editors involved
 * Numerous examples of one user's edits coming right on top of another editor's with similar content changes made by both editors (i.e., Kambuja and Avatarworld make rapid successions of edits to Leopard Capital on the same day) Different user accounts alternate making similar edits
 * In uploading File:Leopard logo.svg Both Parkview85 and Rrwoodhull assert that "I have the rights to this image and have authorized it for use on Wikipedia". Similarly Parkview85 made a similar claim for File:Nautisco.jpg |►  ϋrбan яeneωaℓ  •  TALK  ◄| 03:01, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Comments by other users
I think they might promoting there own company's article because geolocate says that two of the IPs come from Cambodia (like the article they were editing, it said the company was located in Cambodia), and the edits by them are very similar to each other (quack). However, geolocate showed that one of the IPs came from Hong Kong. Is this an imprecision of geolocate or is this IP a WP:MEAT? Usb10 Let's talk 'bout it! 14:55, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Self-endorsing for CheckUser attention. It's either meatpuppetry or straight socking, as evidenced by the last statement in UrbanRenewal's evidence. –MuZemike 21:33, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Many users. The two I checked have some overlap, but I'd say they are 2 people working together, not one person with multiple accounts. I can't be more specific due to the age of most of the accounts on this list. --  Luk  talk 12:39, 19 August 2010 (UTC)


 * If there is "some overlap" Wouldn't that be more indicative of one guy with multiple computers (i.e., home and office)? Two people wouldn't use the exact same description when uploading images or consistently edit with the same style. |►  ϋrбan яeneωaℓ  •  TALK  ◄| 13:25, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't think so, I'd say there are 2 computers at an office, and 2 different homes. -- Luk  talk 15:39, 19 August 2010 (UTC)


 * In this case, it doesn't look like we can substantiate any claim of sockpuppetry, as there are few behavioural indicators in the stale accounts. We also cannot prove meatpuppetry. I think this is now more of a content issue, and suggest further problems with any of these accounts be brought up on the appropriate noticeboard. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 13:50, 27 August 2010 (UTC)