Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Farside268/Archive

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User:Farside268 is a user with less than 300 edits on Wikipedia who recently created two AfDs at Articles for deletion/Army of the United States and Articles for deletion/Regular Army (United States). These are two well established components of the United States Army and Farside268 had attempted two years ago to Prod delete one of these articles, an action which was reverted almost immediately. As to these AfD's, very shortly after creating them, and seeing it obvious that there were several keep votes on Regular Army and two at AUS, Kendall-K1 appeared to support Farside268's view. Both are accounts without user pages and editor interaction shows some editing on two lesser known articles in the past. The circumstances are a little bit too convenient and the accounts appear to be connected or at least in support of each other. O.R.Comms 14:39, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

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I'm only a casual participant, but I get frustrated when I see conspiracy-theory articles like Army of the United States that appear to be written by freeman-on-the-land types. There are no sources outside of Wikipedia that draw a distinction between the US Army and the Army of the US. The source cited in the article doesn't support the article at all.

As to sock puppets, I don't know what to say. Farside268 (talk) 15:25, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

I came to the AfD via Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history, which I have watchlisted. Kendall-K1 (talk) 16:46, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * A common position on a deletion issue, and some coincidental overlap years apart, is not indicative of sockpuppetry. Closing without action. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:46, 18 December 2017 (UTC)