Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Joelhagan/Archive

07 June 2011

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Joel Hagan is an employee of Strider and it's obvious that  and several of the SPAs above were created to make COI edits to Balance bicycle favoring Strider Sports. Those are fairly easy to identify.

There are also numbers COI edits from other brands of balance bikes, but some of them are actually Strider bikes under a different name. Others are competitors of Strider, engaging in their own sockpuppetry. For example Prince Lionhart might be the sockmaster of 208.85.202.170 and others. I don't know whether it's less work to make one SPI page for this or to do several, so for now I'll make one and go from there.

Someone who may or may not be a sock representing one of the balance bike vendors has complained about NPOV on Balance bike, and I'd like to pare down the number of accounts involved to one per person. Third opinions on POV are always welcome, of course.Dennis Bratland (talk) 21:55, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

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 * Ugh, what a mess. All but the first two named accounts are exceedingly stale (<= 2009) so there's not much to do there. As to other two accounts, there's no actual overlap in their edits, and therefore no abuse of accounts per se. Having said that, keep an eye on this situation and report if more accounts show up. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:06, 9 June 2011 (UTC)