Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Innovative Copy/Archive

Report date July 8 2009, 13:42 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Tckma

User:Innovative Copy created spam for business of same name, and was banned for this. Then, User:Innovative Copy created User:Maryland Copier Dealer and used that account to create spam for Innovative Copy. --Tckma (talk) 13:42, 8 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

Innovative Copy was blocked because the username does not meet our username policy. The blocking template for this says "you are encouraged to choose a new account name which does meet our guidelines", which has been done. This is a perfectly legitimate use of a second user name, and does not fall under Wikipedia's definition of sockpuppetry. It is perfectly true that the Maryland Copier Dealer account has so far been used only to create spam, currently tagged for speedy deletion, but that is a quite different issue from sockpuppetry. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:45, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users

There seems to be no need for action here. The accounts are obviously the same person (who is making no pretense of being different people). Both have been blocked. Cool3 (talk) 20:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions