Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/JSwho/Archive

16 August 2015

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All four of these accounts are involved in FreeWorldGroup and the AfD where they all attempted to !vote to keep the article within a short time frame (24 hours) despite it being an instance of UDPE. Flobberz existed only to create the article with Icamenal. Both accounts were created within a day of each other. Wakling Zombee was created one day after Icamenal to edit the same article. Foopzheart was created only to protest the page's deletion, and was created at the same time as Icamenal. JSwho is a self declared sock puppet came out to !vote keep on this AfD after several months of inactivity. Requesting checkuser to check for sleepers. Winner 42 Talk to me!  23:02, 16 August 2015 (UTC) Winner 42  Talk to me!  23:02, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

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 * I filed the initial COI report. It is key to note that JSWho's only contribution to Wikipedia was to GAR review (and pass) Wyangala. I've started a thread on GAR to ask for reassessment. MSJapan (talk) 01:26, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Please forgive me if I say anything stupid (I'm not very good at this discussing etc.) or misunderstanding this. However, saying that we all attempted to vote is incorrect. Neither "Wakling Zombie" nor I attempted to vote, and I think Foopz only discussed someone's vote, but didn't try to vote himself. Icamenal (talk) 03:28, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Didn't know where else to put this, so I apologize of this isn't the right place; I didn't want to start another unrelated thread above. There may be a different socking problem. Fvalzano is likely Frank Valzano, owner of FreeWorldGroup.  One of his first edits was to try to add the company to a dab page back in 2010.  He has also contributed heavily to Wyangala (his only substantial contrib), the GA review of which was the only substantial edit by JSWho.  So there's 2 SPAs with two editing areas in common.  Does another SPI need to go in, or WP:DUCK? MSJapan (talk) 13:25, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

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 * - to compare Flobberz with Foopzheart (both new accounts registeres to vote !keep at the same AfD ).  Vanjagenije  (talk)  00:08, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
 * The following users are a match, but it's fairly tenuous:
 * The following two accounts are also technically, even :
 * Beyond that, there's not much on the technical side. It looks as though is technically ❌; for the other accounts listed, the results are . Yunshui 雲 水  09:20, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
 * The following two accounts are also technically, even :
 * Beyond that, there's not much on the technical side. It looks as though is technically ❌; for the other accounts listed, the results are . Yunshui 雲 水  09:20, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Beyond that, there's not much on the technical side. It looks as though is technically ❌; for the other accounts listed, the results are . Yunshui 雲 水  09:20, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Beyond that, there's not much on the technical side. It looks as though is technically ❌; for the other accounts listed, the results are . Yunshui 雲 水  09:20, 17 August 2015 (UTC)


 * To me, the "evidence" for sockpuppetry here is simply too weak to merit any action. There is reasonably plausible COI, and there may have been collaboration, and there could possibly have been meatpuppetry (though I'm more inclined to chalk it up to ordinary collaboration without any intent to stuff the ballot box).  If CU had shown certain or likely matches, that would be different — but in the absence of proof (or near-proof) via CU, I'm going to close this one without taking any action against anyone.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 04:04, 1 September 2015 (UTC)