Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/HTMLoveit/Archive

02 December 2014

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Accounts created within a day of each other, first edit by Textas was to HTM's talk page, including immediately sending a barnstar. Textas requests adoption and is adopted by HTM 4 minutes later. The users have then done very little apart from post on each other's talk pages. Today HTM posted that they just realised that they happen to have the same IP as Textas. Sam Walton (talk) 20:09, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

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This is either a tag-team whose members know each other in real life, or it's one person's attempt at hat collecting; compare here and here. If this isn't sockpuppetry, I'd strongly advise TextasChainMaster to find themselves a more experienced adopter. Huon (talk) 20:39, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I would say that it might be a good idea to encourage the two editors (if they are seperate people) to merge their accounts. Maybe we should try that before proceeding further... I would point out that on HTMLoveit's user page, he has both a seeking adoption and a seeing to adopt tags. He did also ask me about "how did you get to be a moderator (if that's what you call it)? I would like to be one too." This might suggest that he might be looking to gain privilege quickly... Merci beaucoup! NHCLS (talk) 14:23, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * If they are two people, merging their accounts is not an option; shared use of accounts is explicitly not permitted. Huon (talk) 14:55, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry... I did not know this. Could you please give the link for that? Merci beaucoup! NHCLS (talk) 19:24, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

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. I've indeffed and tagged the puppet and blocked the master for one week. Although there's been no evidence presented of abusive editing to article space, this whole act of being two different people is unacceptable. Even if it's not an act, we can't have two editors editing as one. I wouldn't have blocked the master at all but given them some WP:ROPE on the offchance that this is all in good faith except for this threat. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:19, 14 December 2014 (UTC)