Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/FactfinderMalta/Archive

12 February 2013

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User:FactfinderMalta insists on editing the page Joseph Muscat, leader of the Maltese Labour Party. It has been pointed out to him/her that the edits are not very relevant and POV, in particular he/she insists on changing the adequate portrait photo with one in which Muscat happened to the making an unflattering facial expression (see also latest invitation to discuss in Talk Page). These he/she has ignored. Moreover, the account was created very recently (coinciding with the electoral campaign currently underway in Malta) and the user seems to be interested exclusively in this article (except for some marginal interest in the related Labour Party). The account could also be a sockpuppet for the banned user JosephMuscatDotCom who showed a similar exclusive interest in the article and tried to push through the same kind of edits. Demdem (talk) 12:37, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

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 * Even if this is the same user, JosephMuscatDotCom was blocked for username policy violation and they were explicitly encouraged to create another account with a policy-compliant name. So there's no abuse of multiple accounts there. The point of view issues may need sorting out, but I don't think there's anything for SPI to do here. Jafeluv (talk) 20:43, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Agree with the above. Although Joseph's unblock request was denied, the initial block explicitly permitted new account creation, so this is not a violation. There is definitely a problem, but not one for SPI. Someguy1221 (talk) 01:43, 13 February 2013 (UTC)