Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Janaa22/Archive

Report date May 27 2009, 14:53 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Nacl11

Each editor has only made edits to one article: User:Janaa22 , User:Richardg5438, User:Re'ge9999

Each account was created at moment when multiple accounts were helpful, like when an article deletion was requested: 

Some edits from these suspects accounts occurred within minutes of one another

Editors exhibit same behavior of not signing comments

Removing and defending same content


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

All accounts blocked. Icestorm815 •  Talk  20:01, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Report date June 5 2009, 15:40 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets
 * (new sockpuppet)




 * Evidence submitted by Nacl11

Pelham1234 is probably part of this identified sockpuppet group:

- User:Pelham1234 only edits have been deleting the same content that the above referenced group has. - User:Pelham1234 was created for the single purpose of editing one article Nancy Jacobson - User:Pelham1234's first request was a sockpuppet investigation of me: Sockpuppet_investigations/Nacl11/Archive

This is an additional user account for a sockpuppet investigation that has already been closed. I'm not sure if I formatted properly. Thanks.

Similar behavior: Pelham1234 deletes same content: , Janaa22 deletes same content: Re'ge deletes same content: Janaa22 deletes same content again:, Journalist1983 removes same content: ; Janaa22, Re'ge, and Journalist1983 make similar comments on AFD page; Journalist1983 makes speedy deletion request (during ongoing regular deletion request) supported by Janaa22  and Richard5438. (speedy deletion request denied)

Making similar sockpuppet claims without foundation: , --Nacl11 (talk) 16:12, 5 June 2009 (UTC) --Nacl11 (talk) 16:13, 5 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Reviewing the edits, it is clear that User:Richardg5438, User:Re'ge99, and User:Janaa22 were all created for the express purpose of editing the Nancy Jacobson article. All three accounts were created after User:Journalist1983's last edit. While many edits were identical, the writing style of the three socks are markedly different than Journalist1983's, so we can't conclude sockpuppetry in his case. The other three, however, are definitely sockpuppets, or at least meatpuppets.--Aervanath (talk) 20:19, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * misfiled initially Mayalld (talk) 15:44, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * pleas supply diffs to show similar behaviour Mayalld (talk) 15:49, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * This is not a simple case. Whilst sockpuppetry (or more likely meatpuppetry) is possible, it is also possible that all the editors concerned are independent COI editors with some connection to the subject. I note that many of the edits referenced in the diffs are actually supported by policy, as they remove negative BLP that is sourced from blogs and the Huffington Post. There would appear to be a battle being fought here between pro and anti factions, and there is a danger that SPI could be a tool in that battle. Mayalld (talk) 06:26, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * The three were already blocked and tagged by User:Icestorm815.--Aervanath (talk) 20:25, 28 June 2009 (UTC)