Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/FeerTheDeer/Archive

13 August 2013

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Lately, an article created by FeerTheDeer was sent for deletion (said debate is here). I !voted delete, however, after my vote, truckloads of keep !votes came in from accounts that had made no edits before, plus some IPs including this one, 166.137.88.149, that seems to have been resurrected after a period of vandalizing from 2012 (Note that said IP has a talk page, where a user warned him that he was caught socking). FeerTheDeer said that he had notified the seven people that had worked on it, but out of all of those, only one IP edited it and that was just FeerTheDeer logged out. The others have not made a single edit to the article. They are all bringing up nearly the exact same reasoning in their keep !votes. But what really made me quizzical was when "OprahPhan" decided to bring up my Owen Marks article in his keep comments. He talked about how my article has no sources and doesn't meet notability, which is exactly what FeerTheDeer said on the article's talk page. What also made me suspicious was that FeerTheDeer used his IP to give a keep !vote, then he later corrected it, saying "sorry I logged out," then proceeded to give another !vote (logged in) without striking the above from his IP. This is just getting too suspicious for me to just let slide, so I had to bring it here.  Taylor Trescott  - my talk + my edits 20:48, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

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 * Note that named accounts will not be linked to IP addresses.-- Gilderien Chat&#124;List of good deeds 02:59, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Adding checkuser request for the accounts given the surprising similarity in votes: FeerTheDeer, OprahPhan, and Carmellamusicfan. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:46, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
 * On a technical level, OprahPhan and Carmellamusicfan are ❌, and a connection from either of them to FeerTheDeer is . They are all three in relatively close proximity to one another, so meatpuppetry may be a more likely conclusion. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:38, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Okay. Closing, then, with a caution to FeerTheDeer not to recruit his friends to vote in AFDs. Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:02, 21 August 2013 (UTC)