Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Drew902/Archive

19 February 2014

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

I came across this via the AfD for Remember the 13th. Long story short, this is one of several spam articles related to this hoax that someone has been trying to have re-added to Wikipedia such as Swenzy. Juiceentertainment claimed that they weren't the actual company representing the group and have been blocked, but I'd like to get this investigated to see if these are all socks of one person. I have a feeling that this is a case of meatpuppetry and/or a case of paid editing, but I'd like to make sure. I'd also like to see if there are any sleepers. I almost didn't list the IPs, but they've been incredibly active throughout all of this and have made edits to the most recent rendition of Remember The 13th Hoax. In any case, this kind of highlights some of the big problems we've been having with AfCs getting accepted into the mainspace. It would have been nice if this had shown up on some sort of radar when it was accepted, but the titles being slightly different probably prevented this. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   04:50, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

I don't see that this SPI is necessary. Juiceentertainment was given a "soft" block simply for a username violation, and the block template specifically allows for creation of a new account that doesn't violate our username policy. The block happened back in November of 2013. Rogerroyal wasn't created until 2014, so there is no overlap. If they are the same editor, there was no block evasion and no use of multiple accounts. The IP address 50.162.190.150 outed themselves as Rogerroyal on both the COI noticeboard and the AfD for the Remember the 13th article, so there's no need to connect the two. For what it's worth, one of the IPs geolocates to Miami, FL, and the other one geolocates to Greece (the island of Crete). So I don't see what is accomplished either by a checkuser or a sockpuppet investigation.

I should add, in regards to Drew902, that account edited 8 times (including deleted contributions) on October 15 of last year, and never edited again. Juiceentertainment didn't make an edit until a week later. So again, if they are the same editor, there is no overlap in editing and no block evasion. --  At am a  頭 17:27, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Declining CU request as the two previous accounts are now stale for checkuser purposes and per Atama's comments. It might make sense to seek sanctions against the currently active account for promotional editing though. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:03, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
 * — I don't see any evidence of sockpuppetry here. Per, there might be other reasons to investigate what is going on here, but SPI is not the proper forum for that.  Accordingly, I'm closing this.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 06:41, 24 February 2014 (UTC)