Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gm545/Archive

02 January 2014

 * Suspected sockpuppets


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Please refer to contributions. This account was created yesterday and has made only contributions related to the deletion process, notably contributing to deletion discussions. This is atypical behavior for new editors, as is the knowledge of Wikipedia procedure revealed by their contributions. Please check whether this matches the modus operandi of any known banned or blocked editor.  Sandstein  17:55, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

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 * I can Google just as well as the next person to find procedural information. It's not very hard, I found that AfD was fairly interesting, I'm on holidays and I jumped right into it.


 * As an example of being able to read instructions:


 * i) explain how the accounts belong to one person
 * Not more than one account has been put forth.
 * ii) explain how they are being abused
 * No abuse has been alleged.
 * iii) explain why CheckUser is necessary (in most cases it isn't)
 * Don't know.
 * iv) support your argument with diffs; Clerks and CheckUsers cannot be expected to retrieve and/or establish it for you!
 * None provided.


 * This seems a pretty clear case of WP:BITE. How are you expected to attract enthusiastic editors who have an ability to read instructions (an ability many seem to be clearly lacking) if you just go around investigating them right off the bat?
 * Gm545 (talk) 18:18, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - . Anyone who files an AFD must create an account. Rschen7754 18:17, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
 * This does not look remotely like a new editor to me. If, as Rschen7754 suggests, this was a former IP editor who created an account to file an AfD, then why doesn't the editor say so? I am therefore strongly of the opinion that this is a sockpuppet. However, because of the ridiculous policy "checkuser is not for fishing", which means that a checkuser can't be used unless we already know what earlier account was used, it is impossible to get enough evidence, so I must reluctantly close this investigation. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:56, 3 January 2014 (UTC)