Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Faylinesong/Archive

15 October 2014

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The accounts are associated with a concerted effort to remove maintenance and deletion tags from Tarek Najm. Two of these have "song" in their name, suggesting they may be the same person. Two of them have declared a personal connection with the article's subject, including one who says Najm is his/her boss. All of these are single-purpose accounts. —Largo Plazo (talk) 17:10, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

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 * It is clear that certainly two of the accounts, and almost certainly the third one, are here to edit on behalf of Tarek Najm, which at best means that they have a conflict of interest, and that they are effectively meatpuppets. They may be the same person, but I see little evidence for that, though it is striking that both the accounts Kunsong123 and Xiehongxue appeared shortly after Faylinesong had been warned of a possible block, and Tareknajm had been warned about his evident conflict of interest. However, whether sockpuppets or not, Kunsong123 and Faylinesong have been persistently disruptive, and I have blocked them for three days. If they continue in the same way after the block, I will be willing to consider a much longer block, perhaps even indefinite. Xiehongxue has made only two edits, and none yet since being warned, so I am at present giving him/her the benefit of the doubt, and I have merely informed him/her of Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines. However, in view of the (at best) evident collaboration with the other accounts, if that account makes any more unacceptable edits at all, I will be willing to block, without waiting for the amount of persistent disruption I would require in the case of an account operating alone. I shall also give all four accounts (including Tareknajm) a warning about meatpuppetry. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 09:32, 16 October 2014 (UTC)