Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kgarson/Archive

21 August 2013

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Chicagoghosttown created two templates, and, which later came up for speedy deletion ([//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Rtr&diff=prev&oldid=569550651 rtr], [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Srs&diff=prev&oldid=569625144 srs]) Chicagoghosttown then removed the speedy tags ([//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Rtr&diff=prev&oldid=569616419 rtr], [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Srs&diff=prev&oldid=569616565 srs]), which I rollbacked ([//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Rtr&diff=prev&oldid=569617186 rtr], [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Srs&diff=prev&oldid=569617218 srs]) per WP:SPEEDY "The creator of a page may not remove a speedy deletion tag" although since I used WP:ROLLBACK, I could not leave an edit summary stating as such - but I did [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Chicagoghosttown&diff=prev&oldid=569617372 serve a template] to that effect. Within the hour, Kgarson (who until then had made just three edits, almost three weeks earlier) reverted my rollbacks ([//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Rtr&diff=prev&oldid=569622360 rtr], [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Srs&diff=prev&oldid=569622810 srs]). On that basis I suspected them to be the same person; my suspicions have been reinforced when comments [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2013_August_21&diff=prev&oldid=569632634 were left by Chicagoghosttown at WP:TFD] using some wording very similar to comments left at the two template talk pages by Kgarson ([//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:Rtr&oldid=569622696 rtr], [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:Srs&oldid=569624009 srs]) - compare "Takes up less room in the source code" with "they don't take up so much space in the source code". As for 69.3.116.45: that user's [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Citation_templates&diff=prev&oldid=569617681 single edit] was to restore some content concerning the very same templates, which had been [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Citation_templates&diff=prev&oldid=569391226 removed by me] having [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Citation_templates&diff=prev&oldid=569340680 first been added] by Chicagoghosttown, named above (more at Wikipedia talk:Citation templates). Red rose64 (talk) 23:26, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

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 * All of my uses of my account are legitimate. I made citation templates that make it easier to work on articles. Here is an example of their use:

Writing should be clear and coherent and right for the purpose and audience.

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I am requesting checkuser since, while the timing of the speedy deletion tag removals is striking, they might be friends off-wiki or this might be coincidence. Checkuser can help distinguish that from sockpuppetry. Reaper Eternal (talk) 01:17, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Looks bordering on ❌.  Tiptoety  talk 05:39, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Looks more like meat then, but that does not stop future sanctions if this recurs. Rschen7754 05:40, 28 August 2013 (UTC)