Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kcummins9/Archive

18 January 2011

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A surprising number of new editors suddenly interested in adding the same external link at bottom and in the body of article. IP, kcummins9 allosaur777, dusl502, opencontent. It may be meatpuppetry, but it's suspicious because some of the accounts have been around and dormant, others are brand-new, and the edits are happening in quick succession. tedder (talk) 20:26, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

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 * I've full-protected the article as some of these appear to be autoconfirmed. Feel free to revert or modify protection once this is sorted out. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:57, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * "separate people that were told to add links onto the page" = meatpuppetry, right ? Cheers. Duke53  | Talk 23:21, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I tend to think this is meatpuppeting, but CU can clarify. (Except for the IP, of course.) —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 20:37, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * They all edit from Brigham Young University, a university owned by the LDS. I'd say it's more likely that they are separate people that were told to add links onto the page, to be honest. I doubt it's all the same person. There's not really anything I can do about it without blocking a fair few legitimate users. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 23:00, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * As expected. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been fully protected for three days, so I'm hoping things calm down in that time. If their behavior continues after this we can look to other places (like ANI?) to deal with it. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 23:52, 18 January 2011 (UTC)