Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Former Florist/Archive

14 June 2012

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Former Florist is a recently-created account whose contributions have been focused almost entirely on Palladia (social services organization). Because much of this editing was promotional in nature, I warned the editor on June 13 against editing with a COI. . Today, a new account, Theguv2000, was created to edit the article. Another new editor created today was Commongroundny, which made substatial changes to the article Common Ground (NYC). Not coincidentally, this article is one of the few also edited by Former Florist, leading to the not unreasonable conclusion that Former Florist is attempting to avoid scrutiny of his or her PR-type edits by creating new accounts to make those edits, while continuing to post innocuous contribs with the original account. Since this behavior smacks of being a promotional-only editor, perhaps connected to a public-relations firm, a checkuser should be run to see if there are other connected accounts. Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:36, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The information provided is not sufficient for a behavior-based block, bit ut is sufficient for a checkuser. If you don't care to do the proper due diligience and actually look at what I've provided, I can't help that, but you really shouldn't be clerking at SPI, then.  Perhaps you might want to consult someone with more experience in this area. Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:15, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

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 * You need to use diffs to explain i) how the accounts are related and ii) how they are being used abusively. It's not up to us to establish the argument for you. WilliamH (talk) 14:11, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Closing as no action taken. Feel free to refile if you have new evidence. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—►  14:49, 18 June 2012 (UTC)