Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kandreyev/Archive

30 October 2014

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I came across all of the above users via an AfD for Structured search. I had initially noticed on the AfD page that there seemed to have been a few accounts that had not signed their arguments. Upon looking at the accounts, I noticed that they seemed to be SPAs that joined up primarily to edit relating to structured search. I initially just shrugged, tagged everything with SPA and "notavote", and move on, but I've noticed that there are a LOT of IPs coming on and making the same arguments that SearchPro1, Bourbon7, and Kandreyev have made, who also have made their arguments in fairly similar manners. I'm not sure if this is a case of meating or socking, but the AfD page is getting fairly liberally laden with single purpose accounts and IPs coming on to the point where I think that a SPI may be warranted. I'm not overly worried about sleepers in this instance, because if this is a case of sockpuppetry then they'd have used any opened accounts to post at the AfD. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   06:24, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

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The behavioural evidence makes this pretty well a duck case, and the geolocation of the IP addresses removes any trace of doubt. I have blocked the sockpuppets indefinitely, and the IP addresses for a week, including as well as those listed above. For the present I shall just give a warning to the master account. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:25, 30 October 2014 (UTC)