Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/EricGaines/Archive

02 November 2014

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Three SPAs involved in obscure Landfair family (auto)bios, and improperly editing the same article: — Brianhe (talk) 06:52, 2 November 2014 (UTC) Brianhe (talk) 06:52, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Danjmoore created bio1 (2007)
 * EricGaines created bio2 (2013)
 * EricGaines edited bio1 (2014)
 * IP edited bio1 the next day

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I'm not sure what I may have done wrong. I'll make sure to login when making edits in the future for maximum transparency. Sorry for any confusion.216.15.15.152 (talk) 13:11, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * What usually happens at this point is the accounts that have been used by the editor named in the SPI are enumerated by the editor and he/she shows that he understands the WP:Sockpuppet policy. In other words, comes clean on past actions and convinces the community that they will not be repeated. The fact that you didn't log in to make the comment above makes the opposite impression. — Brianhe (talk) 05:33, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
There is no evidence whatever of sockpuppetry. All that has been shown is that we have two accounts interested in editing the same topic, and that an editor has sometimes edited without logging in. It has not been demonstrated that the two accounts are owned by the same person, but even if they are, I am at a total loss to see what anyone could think was abusive about the use of two accounts. There is absolutely no overlap at all between the edits of the two accounts: Danjmoore's last edit was in June 2008, while EricGaines's first edit was in June 2013. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:55, 7 November 2014 (UTC)