Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hilcee/Archive

17 October 2012

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All accounts created within a 31-minute space. All editing the Alan Cinis article, either removing negative material, or adding positive material. I suppose the master purports to be the subject of the article. Bbb23 (talk) 07:02, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

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 * and are a ✅ match to each other; regarding, from the CU results I got, when I compared those accounts to this one, I'd say this is a case of meatpuppetry and not socking  to be a little less terse, they appear to edit from a different IP range, though it's from the same general area, and have a different UA.  Salvio  Let's talk about it! 11:07, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * That makes some sense. If you assume Amcinis is Alan Cinis and created an account, he then got someone to help him (the meatpuppet) who created two accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:05, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Moving to new master. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 12:44, 18 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Blocked Hilcee 1 week for sockpuppetry, indef block Cmh 68 as puppet, and 1 week for Amcinis for meatpuppetry and placed block tag on this page to this effect, plus the usual tags. Closing. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 12:47, 18 October 2012 (UTC)