Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dylanmagierek/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * June 28, I suggested WP:PROD on Badman Recording Co.
 * June 30, User Dylanmagierek which is the same name as the company owner removed my PROD. That account and the IP 71.36.100.88 made edits minutes apart suggesting correlation.
 * July 7 I nominated the article for Deletion.
 * July 9 single purpose account Alliza31 was created.
 * July 11th Alliza31 account started added contents into article that do not pass reliable source criteria and sources with retrieval dates dated years before account creation date in Special:Diff/1164873837.
 * July 18th, another SPA MolluskArgento made their first edit to "vote" keep in the AfD. This was within half an hour of this account being created.

I am suspecting coordinated resistance to deletion potentially involving socking or meat-puppeting. What initially raised a red flag is the addition of sources by the single purpose account Alliza31 (creation 9 July 2023) edit at Special:Diff/1164873837. The retrieval dates on some of the sources they inserted were 2010-10-15, 2019-10-11, 2018-6-29 pre-dating the user's account creation by years. I briefly checked the edit history and these sources were not originally present in the article precluding the chance they were simply imported from earlier revs. I also did insource: search on some of those URLs and they didn't come up in en.wiki, so they were probably pre-composed off-wiki. The two single purpose accounts also just so happen to be created right as deletion processes were underway. Individually none of them rise to suspicion of socking, but the collective coincidence of de-PRODdig by years old account with the same name as the company's owner and two SPAs being created after AfD and working just on this article and voting to "keep" the article is suggestive of socking or meat puppeting. Graywalls (talk) 06:50, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Note to participants: Per AfD Badman Recording Co. has been ruled in favor of deletion, so the contributions relevant to this discussion won't be visible except to those with privileges to access deleted contributions. Graywalls (talk) 21:49, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * These accounts appear to be technically ❌. It's possible that some off-wiki (social media?) coordination has brought them here at the same time, but they don't appear to be being controlled by the same person.   Girth Summit  (blether)  12:23, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
 * The article is gone. Problem solved. . MarioGom (talk) 21:11, 17 August 2023 (UTC)