Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/John.Roberts31/Archive

21 August 2012

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all of the accounts have made similar edits to Trinity Western University. While none of the edits are terrible on their own, using multiple accounts is unusual. Requesting CheckUser evidence and that named sock (Grayhat551) would be closed if this does prove to be a sock. Walter Görlitz (talk) 14:50, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

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 * - Please supply a couple of diffs showing that these editors could be the same person. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 02:39, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Will leave the diffs to the SPI admin's discretion: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trinity_Western_University&action=history --Walter Görlitz (talk • contribs) 05:07, 24 August 2012‎ (UTC)
 * The edit history does suggest that they may be related, but without diffs to show abuse I don't see sufficient cause to use CU. In fact, a reasonable explanation could be that he simply wanted to abandon the real-name account and instead use a pseudonymous one. There is no overlap in the edits, so I don't see intent to disrupt/deceive/mislead so no WP:SOCK violation. I will approach them and explain our 'one person, one account' norm. Closing here since I think there is nothing further to do. Amalthea  14:36, 24 August 2012 (UTC)