Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jenakenedy/Archive

16 June 2013

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The article is edited by a series of registered editors all editing only Majid Rafizadeh and sometimes International American Council. (There are also a number of IPs, but their details will be too old for CU so I leave them out.) Everytime the account was created shortly before they started editing, what they all did in a technically correct way from the first edit.

It were the last two editors that triggered my suspicion. I had added some maintenance templates, in fact as start for a necessary rewrite. Later I noticed that the templates were removed by Elizabethlawyer, an account created after the addition of the templates, with as edit summary "Improving the article". I checked the other two edits, found them okay and restored the templates. About an hour later I noticed that the templates were gone again. This time removed by "Addingcitations" with as edit summary "Improved". This account was also created shortly before its first edit in which a number of sources were given, all technically correct. It was the fact that they both referred to removing the maintenance templates as improvements that struck me.

The whole shebang gives me the idea that one experienced editor is creating accounts to give the idea that multiple people are working on the two article. This suggests that the subjects are more important than they really are. Seeing how easy the accounts are made, it seems opportune to check for sleepers too. The Banner talk 21:49, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

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 * - On Elizabethlawyer and Addingcitations, per and . The others are either stale or have insufficient evidence provided to justify a check, because we must allow for the possibility of different users with the same interests. King of  &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 01:26, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * As noted above, Jenakenedy, Internationalcommunity, Saharraslani and Hillaryjack are.
 * These are all editing from the same university, using multiple multiple devices:
 * ​—DoRD (talk)​ 02:27, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Going off usernames alone I find it hard to believe Addingcitations and Addcitations are not related. --Rschen7754 07:36, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Went ahead and blocked the 0 edit Addcitations. NativeForeigner Talk 20:21, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * ​—DoRD (talk)​ 02:27, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Going off usernames alone I find it hard to believe Addingcitations and Addcitations are not related. --Rschen7754 07:36, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Went ahead and blocked the 0 edit Addcitations. NativeForeigner Talk 20:21, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * ​—DoRD (talk)​ 02:27, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Going off usernames alone I find it hard to believe Addingcitations and Addcitations are not related. --Rschen7754 07:36, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Went ahead and blocked the 0 edit Addcitations. NativeForeigner Talk 20:21, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Went ahead and blocked the 0 edit Addcitations. NativeForeigner Talk 20:21, 28 June 2013 (UTC)


 * At this time, the unblocked accounts seem a bit inactive, and a definitive link isn't established showing sockpuppetry. Whether this fully enters the realm of meatpuppetry is less certain in respect to the unblocked parties. Sockpuppetry of them is even less certain, as different devices don't prove they are different people.  For all intent and purpose, they can be treated as meatpuppets if they back up each others edits in the future, but for now I'm closing without any additional blocks. Dennis Brown &#124; 2¢ &#124;  WER  11:15, 5 July 2013 (UTC)