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14 January 2012

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While going through New Pages I noticed that Carolynrutherford created Skerry Champion potato which I moved for capitalisation reason. I then noticed another three new accounts creating potato articles, Eoin quinn with Black champion potato, Rorywales with Mizen potato and Dandeloin with Bloomer potato. I also found that Jennifercrowley, created in 2010 created British queen potato and the oldest account Infoeco created Butte potato. Although Infoeco has made food based edits before neither them or Jennifercrowley has made any potato related edits. Infoeco, Rorywales and Carolynrutherford also made edits to the Potato cultivars template. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 16:09, 14 January 2012 (UTC) CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 16:09, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

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You are correct, it was part of a class. I was teaching how to edit wikipedia, and students were using Irish potato cultivars to create new pages. The students each created wikipedia accounts (none had ever edited before) and were asked to create a page about a potato cultivar using in-print citations. Should I do something different in the future like give a warning so I don't get accused of sockpuppetry? Infoeco (talk) 16:34, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

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 * - That is certainly very strange. Endorsing to see what's going on here. Is this part of a, I don't know, potato agriculture class? —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 16:17, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
 * You are correct, it was part of a class. I was teaching how to edit wikipedia, and students were using Irish potato cultivars to create new pages. The students each created wikipedia accounts (none had ever edited before) and were asked to create a page about a potato cultivar using in-print citations.  Should I do something different in the future like give a warning so I don't get accused of sockpuppetry?  Infoeco (talk) 16:39, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Wait, really? I was right? Ha, that's kinda awesome. I'd still like the CUs to confirm this, just in case. Anyway, school projects like that should generally be listed at School and university projects. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 23:44, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh am I going to feel stupid and have a whole bunch of apologising to do. Thankfully I didn't block first and ask afterwards. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 00:26, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Confirm it just in case? . WilliamH (talk) 01:04, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Call it paranoia - we've been lied to in the past about how accounts are actually connected. But whatever, I'll take them at their word. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 06:07, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

No worries. Hopefully the students from the class will go on to edit other articles they are interested in, and it will become clear that these are all different individual users. Thanks for following up. Infoeco (talk) 16:22, 15 January 2012 (UTC)