Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gary Punch/Archive

18 November 2014

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Created page Gary Punch Evangelist like half an hour after User:Gary Punch was blocked and Gary punch the Evangelist‎ and Gary Punch The Evangelist‎ (both created by the aforementioned user) were salted. --Richard Yin (talk) 21:40, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Also: I took a look at the website from which the original article was copied, and it says at the bottom that the page was designed by a firm called AA SEO, which seems to match the sock account. Undisclosed paid editing? --Richard Yin (talk) 22:12, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

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Peymanaaseo blocked per WP:DUCK and told if he wants edit to request unblock on the primary account, also to read WP:AUTO. I will leave this open for the moment, and do a sweep tomorrow morning to see whether he has started any more accounts.

It's clear from talk page comments that the two accounts are the same person. It's possible that it is not Punch himself, but an SEO firm making the common newbie mistake of confusing accounts with articles. Same result, anyway. JohnCD (talk) 23:26, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Well, the editor refers to the real life Gary Punch as "myself" here. Anyway, I'm marking this case as closed, as JohnCD didn't do that. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 11:34, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I waited to see whether he would try again, but he seems to have got the message. JohnCD (talk) 22:54, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

24 November 2014

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Recreating page about Gary Punch (evangelist). Main account is already blocked and various titles of the article are protected. This version was The Evangelist Gary Punch. An older version is Gary Punch Evangelist. Name is very similar to Peymanaaseo and I'm blocking per WP:DUCK. Peridon (talk) 13:12, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

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 * I've tagged the suspected sock account. I don't believe further action is required, so I'm closing this case. Mike V  •  Talk  00:38, 25 November 2014 (UTC)