Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Drwebnow/Archive

Report date October 7 2009, 22:34 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * Evidence submitted by Hairhorn

I looked into this only after a brand new account turned up in an AfD debate. User:Dr25's first and only edit so far is a keep vote at Articles for deletion/Chris mentillo. This sort of thing always raises alarm bells for me. The next alarm bell came from long protesting edits from the IPs at Talk:Chris mentillo. So, looking further, we find User:HollywoodCeleb, who wrote the draft article User:HollywoodCeleb/Chris mentillo PhD, which looks an awful lot like the original version of Chris mentillo posted by a different user (ie User:Drwebnow).

User:Docment also wrote another identical draft version of the same article, User:Docment/Chris mentillo. One of the IPs also contributed to another article in Docement's user space, User:Docment/Got money records, a record label linked to Chris Mentillo.

Since three users posted the exact same article (twice as drafts, once as an article space entry), this looks pretty clear cut to me, at least for Drwebnow, HollywoodCeleb, and Docment. But there was no clear attempt at deceit or funny business, until the obvious sock in the AfD debate.


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

✅ as:
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * ✅ as:
 * . Brandon (talk) 04:48, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * . Brandon (talk) 04:48, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * . Brandon (talk) 04:48, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Blocked the confirmed accounts (both groups). Both groups are likely the same user. I've blocked the most recent IP for a week. -- Kanonkas : Talk  14:32, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions