Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kevinoleary12/Archive

Report date July 28 2009, 23:49 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by User:Black Kite

Suspicious multiple AfD voting. There has recently been a number of contentious AfDs about Irish footballers, and some editors have taken to AfDing players from other countries in response. Some of these AfDs have been reasonable; some have clearly been WP:POINT violations. This is another facet of this problem. Timeline (all edits 28 July and UTC)
 * 18:58 - User:Kevinoleary12, having not edited for 16 months, creates Articles for deletion/Stefan Frei, a WP:POINT nomination of a clearly notable footballer.
 * 19:04 - User:Goodriddance54 account created.
 * 19:06 - User:Goodriddance54 adds "Delete" vote to Frei AfD.
 * 19:08 - User:Leagueofireland also adds "Delete" vote to Frei AfD.
 * 22:06 - User:Leagueofireland creates Articles for deletion/Richard Graham (Northern Ireland footballer), another dubious AfD given that the article clearly states that the player has played professionally
 * 22:26 - User:Leagueofireland creates Articles for deletion/Damien Curran - a reasonable AfD this time, but then ...
 * 22:38 - User:Goodriddance54 is straight there with the Delete vote for Curran...
 * 22:39 - ...and also for Graham.

Clearly behaviourally this passes WP:DUCK, especially with a brand new account and one that's been silent fo 16 months, but it may also need a CheckUser to sort out and even then may turn out to be meatpuppetry.


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * Goodriddance54 looks pretty suspicious but looking at the editting patterns and the style of prose for Leagueofireland and Kevinoleary12 and it doesnt look like they are connected. As you know there has been a lot of AfD's recently so maybe they just followed each others contributions - as I did with them on the Richard_Graham_(Northern_Ireland_footballer) article.--Vintagekits (talk) 00:49, 29 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Also User:Centre mid looks a bit suspect. I don't know whether it's related to this user, but the account was created on 10 July, and comments straight away in AfD's and has made one minor mainspace edit to date. --Jimbo[online] 07:31, 29 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Note that Goodriddance54 claimed on Jimbo online's talk page that he had just registered a new account after "closing" a previous account, albeit with no explanation as to why he had done so or what his previous account might have been -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:10, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Requested by &mdash;Kww(talk) 16:05, 31 July 2009 (UTC) Not DUCK, but a check is warranted here. MuZemike 22:47, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Clear disagreement among the commenters as to whether or not this is a duck. Therefore, it is not a duck. Checkuser required to confirm.&mdash;Kww(talk) 16:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

In progress -- Avi (talk) 05:05, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

-- Avi (talk) 05:16, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * ✅ Currently available technical and behavioral evidence indicates that the following accounts are related:


 * Socks blocked and tagged. Closing... NW ( Talk ) 05:25, 2 August 2009 (UTC)