Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jagarolik/Archive

Evidence submitted by Struthious Bandersnatch
The listed accounts and IPs have exhibited coordinated edits of the article Robert "Bob" J. Giuda (history) and nearly all of them are very new accounts or IPs that have exclusively edited this article or related articles. This article is about an individual who is currently competing in a political race for a Senate seat.

Despite recent, extremely bad publicity for this candidate a local television station's poll revealed that even at this point in the race, 90% of respondents either do not have any opinion of him or do not even recognize his name. (See bulleted comment halfway down this blog post.) And despite that, this collection of users and IPs managed while acting purportedly independently to create a well-written, cited article on the candidate in the last year-plus including a photograph of the candidate holding a Kashmiri orphan in his arms (taken personally by account Jagarolik identifying himself as "Christopher Buchanan"), an audio clip specifying the pronunciation of the candidate's family name, and an audio clip describing activities in Kashmir.

Most recently I added a section on the candidate's documented opinions on issues including the incident resulting in extremely bad publicity which I mention above. The entire section of the article was deleted piecemeal by the account EchoDriver (diff 1, 2, 3, 4) I reverted this deletion as  vandalism. Within three hours the entire section was directly blanked again by the same account (diff), which I reverted asking for an explanation of the deletion.

Within six hours of that action, a completely new user account showed up to delete several pieces of the section (diff 1, 2) and then a couple of hours further on one of the accounts which had previously edited the article showed up to complete the deletion of the section (diff).

This combination of events would appear pretty strongly indicative of a collection of sockpuppets. ❨Ṩtruthious ℬandersnatch❩ 19:47, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Additionally, a request on account EchoDriver's talk page for an explanation of the section blankings resulted in a response on the talk page from account Eng5.afd. --❨Ṩtruthious ℬandersnatch❩ 21:08, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

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All registered accounts indefinitely blocked and tagged. No action taken on the IPs at this time. –MuZemike 21:21, 18 August 2010 (UTC)