Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/France2007/Archive

28 November 2012

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Matt 800's only edits are to House of du Souich, created by France2007 and to Articles for deletion/House of du Souich, to act in support. In this edit France edits post as Matt 800 (looks like he forgot who he was signed in as) and replies as himself. Note Matt 800 already being discussed (for outing) in ANI. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 13:49, 28 November 2012 (UTC) Finlay McWalterჷTalk 13:49, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

This is pretty weird. Either Matt and France2007 share the same IP or they have been editing each others comments, which is not allowed per WP:TALK. Tijfo098 (talk) 18:02, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Also Special:Contributions/81.93.6.149 should be looked at. It's possible this is Matt 800. Tijfo098 (talk) 18:59, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

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Note from the "accused": Not at all. The only connection between editor Matt_800 and myself is that we are both working on the House of du Souich pages. For clarification, I did update a comment on a complaint Matt_800 made regarding S. Rangell who apparently deleted a page Matt_800 and I were working on. And I commented in defense of Matt_800 on that page. However, when I understood the outing situation, I immediately took action on the AfD page. I'm an American lawyer living in Paris, France. I can't speak for Matt_800. My IP address is: 62.34.61.48. A comment(s) was posted on the House du Souich AfD page in defense of the nominated page (someone from the family being discussed on the nominated page) disclosing that the writer knew me, as does know me, but that was a comment not a vote. — Preceding unsigned comment added by France2007 (talk • contribs) 14:35, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I would bet my lunch money that 81* matches up. For reasons I won't articulate, I don't think a CU would be helpful here.  There are a number of very distinct behavioral match ups here.  Meatpuppetry is also a possibility, but I would be more willing to get on sockpuppetry here, two hands of the same person.  Digging through the deleted contribs (admin only) as well comparing diffs at fr.wikipedia.org, where they tag team articles on the same topic clearly supports the idea that they are socks.  While I can't block for their activity on fr*, I can certainly use it for evidence and have.  I've also blocked a couple of IPs along the way. Indef for the sock, one month for the master and IPs.  Closing. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 23:57, 28 November 2012 (UTC)