Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jeff Birdsley/Archive

10 March 2014

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With the exception of one edit made by IP 173.196.59.10, all accounts and IPs have only been used to edit the John Bohan article. The edits began after John Bohan's fraud conviction was added to his article. Every edit is exactly the same: the removal of the fraud conviction section. The section has been removed repeatedly since its addition, despite the edits being reverted every time. I believe there is a personal interest in the subject, based on Jeff Birdsley's explanation of the content removal. The latest account to edit the section was JimSutton15, which was created after a last warning for vandalism was placed on Jeff Birdsley's talk page.

Diffs: IP 98.202.228.54, IP 204.16.40.174 , IP 184.164.100.175 , IP 108.0.142.164 , IP 173.196.59.10 , IP 71.108.61.240 , IP 96.229.48.90 , IP 172.248.5.28 , IP 74.87.37.13 , JimSutton15 , Jeff Birdsley Greedo8 (talk) 09:24, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

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 * - Looks more like meatpuppetry to me. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 01:06, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Per WP:MEAT, we generally treat the actions of multiple editors as the same person, if meatpuppetry is involved. Jeff Birdsley was given a final warning for blanking a section of the biography, and then JimSutton15 performed the same action. Therefore I'm blocking Jeff Birdsley as a vandalism-only account, and making the same block on JimSutton15. I'd rather not block a bunch of IPs at once, so I'll semi-protect the article, at least long enough for the AfD to finish (if the article is deleted then there should be no more worries, if it survives then see if the disruption continues). --  At am a  頭 21:55, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Actions performed, I'm marking this case for closure. --  At am a  頭 22:01, 20 March 2014 (UTC)