Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fabricdragon/Archive

Evidence submitted by Beyond My Ken
The article Victoria Boutenko, about a spokesperson for the raw food movement, was created by Fabricdragon on 17 Nov 2009., the account's last recorded edit. Since then, except for some maintenance and other routine edits, all the edits to the article have been made by Msemeb, Viriditasblossoming and the three 66.241.xxx.xx IPs.

On 20 April 2010, the article Green smoothie, about a raw food blended drink, was created by Msemeb. Since then, all the edits to the article, aside from some routine edits, have been by Msemeb, Viriditasblossoming and 66.241.81.94 – except for two edits by MrColombo, an account created today, whose first two edits were to the AfD for Green smoothie.

Neither Msemeb nor Viriditasblossoming has edited outside of the ambit of these two articles, Victoria Boutenko and Green smoothie. Except for one edit to J. Edgar Hoover, all of the edits of 66.241.79.147 have been to Victoria Boutenko.. 66.241.88.43 has edited only Green smoothie and Victoria Boutenko (one edit each)[, and 66.241.81.94 has edited only those same two articles, and [[Talk:Victoria Boutenko]].

If these accounts are all the same editor, then there's been !voting misbehavior at the Green smoothie AfD, since Msemeb, Viriditasblossoming and MrColombo have all voted "Keep" there.

The behavioral evidence here is pretty strong, but a checkuser should be run to see if there are other connected accounts.

Wikistalk result Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:05, 29 April 2010 (UTC)


 * All accounts and IPs notified. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:24, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

I am not hiding that this is the first Wikipedia article that i have ever attempted to write. I was unaware that not contributing to other articles would be held against me. I have been researching, drafting and continually editing to try and meet all of the wikipedia requirements and criticisms for green smoothie. I have chosen to learn the procedure and focus on one article. The Victoria Boutenko article was edited to give the green smoothie information more credibility (as suggested in the green smoothie discussion ). As the checkuser will find we are not the same person, so Im not worried about this. --Msemeb

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:05, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

to check, and. Personally I think the link to is slightly more tenuous, but in any case they would appear to be. SpitfireTally-ho! 13:12, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Fabricdragon is, of course, stale. ✅ for all the other listed accounts and IPs; unambiguous. --jpgordon:==( o ) 16:24, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

OK, let's sum up. Viriditasblossoming and MrColombo have been blocked indef and tagged as socks of Msemeb. Msemeb has been blocked for a period of two weeks as the oldest account. Fabricdragon (stale) and the IPs (inactivity) remain unblocked. Thoughts? TN X Man 19:16, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 * As the person who filed this, would I be out of line in suggesting that, since there seem to be no other connected accounts and Fabricdragon is stale and (perhaps) tenuous, Msemeb be given the chance to continue editing under one of the account names (presumably Msemeb), with the proviso that if there's any future indication of socking, the next block will be more severe? I've already struck out the multiple !votes on the "Green smoothie" AfD, which was the primary abusive part of their socking. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:23, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I've blocked Msemeb for two weeks (not indef), which hopefully leaves the open the possibility of future productive editing. TN X Man  19:28, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I understand. My concern was that the article this editor worked on, and socked for, is in danger of being deleted at AfD, and their being blocked now prevents them from working on the article to improve its chances of being legitimately kept.  It might be that a bit of leniancy now will pay dividends in good behavior later.  Just a thought. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:39, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The AfD closed as "No consensus", so I withdraw my suggestion. Beyond My Ken (talk) 09:34, 30 April 2010 (UTC)