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14 January 2013

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A very simple yet unique case. User:Junkyard69 writes an article about their band JunkYard 69 which got deleted as per Articles for deletion/JunkYard 69. On that AFD page, this person User:Nikotinn !votes for keep on their very second edit to Wikipedia in a very similar way to User:Junkyard69. Both user's claim on their talk page that they are brother which is about to be proven wrong. Nikotinn has comment on their talk page with this note (see ) which makes it highly clear that they are a sockpuppet .The most interesting evidence here is that account User:Nikotinn was actually created by User:Junkyard69 (see ) as a sockpuppet. If both of them are actually brothers, it means that both of them have been using both the accounts in violation of sockpuppetry policy and also being meatpuppets of each other which in case shared accounts are not allowed and be fully blocked. If they don't have any brother (which I believe is the truth) then they are just plainly lying and be fully blocked for violating the same policy in using sock accounts. User:Junkyard69 is still requesting an unblock on their talk page with a proposed username and also keeping account User:Nikotinn in violation of the sock puppetry policy which is strictly prohibited. Therefore, I request Checkuser for a technical evidence match and to also find out any/other possible sockpuppets ~ TheGeneralUser  (talk)  11:56, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * - Clearly, they're either the same person or simply working together. The second account was created by the first account, so there's nothing to be added by running a check. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 13:32, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, we won't be able to prove either possibility if they share the same hardware, and that's part of the reason why WP:FAMILY suggests to simply treat such accounts as one editor. As long as the potential disruption is as low as here I think we should rather err on the side of the editors. If they disclose the relationship on their user pages and make an effort to either avoid editing the same topics or be very explicit regarding their relationship, I would recommend unblocking them. Amalthea  16:32, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Since these users and their behavior are being discussed at User talk:Junkyard69, there is no reason to leave this open. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 16:50, 14 January 2013 (UTC)