Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/JackWild'sDisease/Archive

24 October 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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Single-purpose accounts working on a hoax article, The Tale of Charlie Niebanck. They've also been trying to insert the hoax into the Jack Wild article, and other articles. Most of the accounts have no or few edits outside of editing the hoax article and linking to it. See Articles for deletion/The Tale of Charlie Niebanck. Likely either sockpuppets or meatpuppets. Strangely, the nominator of the AfD has only three edits, all of them on AfD or the hoax page. Not sure what's going on there. Perhaps someone caught his friend disruptively editing Wikipedia? xanchester  (t)  06:08, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I've blocked everyone involved for participating in what was obviously a hoax coordinated off-wiki. The accounts are indef blocked, I only gave the IP 31 hours as there have been no previous problems from it. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:05, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note also the previous account to create this hoax earlier this year, User:NewtGingritchDisease, already blocked back then. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:07, 24 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Checkuser declined as unnecessary. Last remaining user blocked. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 22:27, 24 October 2012 (UTC)