Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jean-Philippe de Lespinay/Archive

17 September 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * fr:User:JeanPhi85
 * fr:User:JeanPhi85


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I hope this is the right level of detail - this is my first SPI
 * User JeanPhi on French Wikipedia has the same profile as Artificial intelligence researcher Jean-Philippe de Lespinay
 * JeanPhi himself claims to run the website tree-logic.com "voyez mon site www.tree-logic.com"
 * On French wikipedia JeanPhi heavily edited Intelligence artificielle and Système expert and ran into issues with external links, choice of sources etc. (long and in French). Also, ,
 * User:Pat grenier single-handedly created the page for Jean-Philippe de Lespinay and is an ardent fan: "I came to the conclusion that the greatest resarcher and inventor in this field is Jean-Philippe de Lespinay. He knew to talk about AI more clearly than many, and he did not stop there: he invented the ultimate reasoning expert system"
 * User:Pat grenier is heavily editing expert systems and repeatedly introduces references to Jean-Philippe de Lespinay and links to tree-logic.com     etc. etc.
 * User:Pat grenier is running into issues (See most of User talk:Pat grenier) (primarily with me, User:pgr94) with choice of sources and promoting Jean-Philippe de Lespinay
 * Despite requests to slow down and familiarise himself with guidelines, User:Pat grenier is bulldozing away: pgr94 (talk) 19:26, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Both User:Pat grenier and User:Jean-Philippe de Lespinay promoted a similar point of view on a discussion about Artificial intelligence:
 * @OhanaUnited: Two of the three users are on en.wikipedia.org so wouldn't they fall within this jurisdiction?pgr94 (talk) 18:25, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Having a different username in a different language's wiki is not violation of any rules/guidelines. In fact, it was very common until the introduction of unified login across WMF projects. Also, we cannot use any suspecting sockpuppetry evidence or enforce the rules in another wiki because this is outside of our jurisdiction. OhanaUnitedTalk page 21:09, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks Ohana, for the explanation of the standard procedure. However, I think that if a rogueness aspect was evident, the stewards may be able to conduct a cross-wiki abuse check through Steward requests/Checkuser. —  Kudu ~I/O~ 00:51, 19 September 2011 (UTC)


 * For the 2 users we can cover, there 1) Is no abuse that I can see 2) They don't really seem to match in behavoir. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  14:33, 24 September 2011 (UTC)