Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/FLR Poll/Archive

Report date January 24 2009, 12:10 (UTC)
Requested by Happy â melon  12:10, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests:


 * To other contributors to the poll, history split between Wikipedia talk:Flagged revisions/Trial and Wikipedia talk:Flagged revisions/Trial/Votes.
 * To other contributors to the poll, history split between Wikipedia talk:Flagged revisions/Trial and Wikipedia talk:Flagged revisions/Trial/Votes.
 * To other contributors to the poll, history split between Wikipedia talk:Flagged revisions/Trial and Wikipedia talk:Flagged revisions/Trial/Votes.

This is a very unusual case; I think it falls into the 'other situation' that is described as "Debates with [an] exceptional... need to check integrity". I recognise that CheckUser is not magic pixie dust, and I make no firm claims that these votes were in fact cast by sockpuppets; I merely note that they display potential sockpuppet behavior in a location where such is particularly damaging. With this poll being both incredibly tight and incredibly contentious, it is utterly vital that there is as much transparency as it is physically possible to provide. It is particularly important here to separate the genuine new editors from the sockpuppets, as the opinions of the former group are most badly needed. While normally we would be instructed to use common sense, and rightly so, I do not believe it is possible to find someone whose sense judgement would be accepted by all parties without hard evidence. I don't want to know who (if anyone) they are a sockpuppet of, I understand that that would be unacceptable fishing. All that is desired is an answer to the question: should these votes be indented? Happy â melon 12:10, 24 January 2009 (UTC)


 * User:Amid.Abdullah
 * Account created 21:44 January 19
 * Vote to FLR poll 17 minutes later. Note the use of a custom signature.
 * Only five subsequent contributions, 7 in total
 * See also
 * User:Qoz
 * Account created 10:09 January 2
 * First edit a Vote to FLR poll.
 * Note also User:QozTemp, although this appears to be a benign SUL account and should be discounted from any investigation.

If anyone notices any other irregularities in the poll contributors, please do add them here. Happy â melon 12:10, 24 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by other users
 * See this, as the aforementioned link is to an ANI thread I started about said user. I'm guessing, as noted in the ANI, that this user, and the other user, are from 4chan, and since FLR would put a stop to their attacks, well..   Just read what I have in the ANI thread.â  DÃ¦ dÎ±lusContribs 00:50, 25 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

❌. Mackensen (talk) 12:19, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Tiptoety talk 20:49, 26 January 2009 (UTC)