Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/HopeAfrique/Archive

29 April 2011

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All three accounts are single purpose accounts related to the Samuel Koranteng-Pipim article, and all three have commented at the AfD now. I thought it was relatively suspicious when the first suspected sock showed up at the AfD, but it didn't tingle my senses enough to take any action based on my suspicions. Now that the third one showed up, it has me suspicious enough to file a SPI. Note that all three accounts have posted what are relatively similar tl;dr posts for keeping the article, all of them sign their posts immediately after punctuation without a space (example: end of sentence.Signature Timestamp), that all of the accounts were created between March 26 and March 30, 2011, that they are never editing at the same time, and that the final two seem versed in Wikipedia policy after policy pages were pointed out to the first account. All in all, it set off enough bells in my head that I think they may be related and request a checkuser. Ks0stm (T•C•G) 03:55, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
 * @Tnxman: Are there any sleepers anywhere that you could find? Also, what do we do regarding the AfD that all the accounts commented at? I'm not exactly familiar with this sort of thing. Ks0stm (T•C•G) 14:42, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
 * There aren't any sleepers. As for the AfD, I'm not sure what the accepted practice is. I would think that either a) the votes are struck or b) the closing admin takes into account the socking. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. TN X Man  14:50, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

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All three named accounts are ✅ matches. TN X Man 13:19, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged both socks, blocked the master 72h for puppeting. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 22:25, 29 April 2011 (UTC)