Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jimbollins/Archive

21 May 2013

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Promotional sock focused on Rahul Mewawalla article created by Jimbollins here. After it was nominated for speedy, the speedy was removed by Ashleyt42 (a new account) here. It has since been brought to AfD and all 3 SPA accounts have posted there - including editing other editor's comments trying to change or delete them with edits such as this:. This is a fairly clear promotional WP:DUCK. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 14:39, 21 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Adding JessHiggins to the list based upon the checkuser results, and the single edit by the user which was to the exact same Afd: . Also passes WP:DUCK. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 22:42, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * - - Could be meatpuppetry or sockpuppetry, but the limited scope of the edits of these editors and the fact that they all found the AFD for an unknown person a day after it was created is unusual.  A Checkuser might shed some light on this. Dennis Brown - 2¢  - © - @ - Join WER 15:19, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 * The named users and are very  the same, but if not, there is something else going on. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 17:33, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked Jess indef as a sock, everyone else one week for master and meatpuppetry. Will craft some hand written explanations on their talk pages.  Vote stacking of all can be struck. Dennis Brown - 2¢  - © - @ - Join WER 23:09, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

08 November 2013

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A brand new user whose only work so far has been the recreation of Rahul Mewawalla, Jimbollins' primary interest. Similar username structure to Jimbollins, Ashleyt42 and FredMalone rings some alarm bells too. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  10:08, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

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, I'm trying to decide whether Janetwood is a sock puppet or a meat puppet. The material itself is available to anyone through LinkedIn. The references are not, although there are fewer references in the recently deleted article than in the one deleted in May 2013. The previous close (in the archive) was ambiguous to me. stated that the "named users" and one of the alleged sock puppets were likely confirmed. I'm not sure what he meant by "named users". I think Dennis interpreted it to mean only Jimbollins, even though DoRD said it in the plural. I don't see any significant similarity in the user names to raise any red flags for me. I don't know if it's Janet Wood 42 or Jane T Wood 42. If it's the second, it's a bit similar to Ashleyt, but pretty tenuous. With all that in mind plus the fact that there's been no further disruption since November 8, I'm inclined to close this with no action, but I'll await your comments. Or perhaps DoRD will assist in the technical aspect of the previous report.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:19, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Closing per Bbb23's comments. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:23, 18 November 2013 (UTC)