Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kmehrabi/Archive

Evidence submitted by ThaddeusB
First four are pretty blatant socking based on the history of this AfD. 76.168 IP is clearly Kmehrabi as well based on article history. Bradlena is already blocked and may or may not be related (recent disruption of Claudia Lynx and no interest outside that article.)

Further investigation for a pattern of abuse outside this AfD/article may be warranted. --ThaddeusB (talk) 23:30, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
I spent some time looking into this mess, and mess it is. I fully comprehend reporter's conclusions, but can't quite find enough evidence for me to act. Housh and 68.101.222.50 are clearly the same editor, but did not, between the pair of them, violating WP:SOCK. 68.101.222.50 voted, fiddled with his vote, and then apparently created the Housh account to take credit for the vote. Suspicious looking, but nothing nefarious.

The relationship between Kmehrabi and 76.168.224.122 is not as clear cut as the reporter claims, but I can understand the suspicion. 76.168.224.122 and 68.101.222.50 geolocate to adjacent cities, and, given the fuzz in geolocation, may well be extremely close to one another. Additionally, the creation of so many accounts that did nothing but participate in such an unimportant actress's AFD is highly suspicious. Since the AFD went "no consensus", it looks like a desperate attempt to sway it. Somebody socked here, the question remains whom. I'm going to recommend this one for checkuser.

Requested by User:Kww

, especially if the activity noted above may have well caused a change in the AFD outcome. –MuZemike 21:47, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Some of them are from the same US state, but they seem pretty unrelated. Maybe meatpuppetry? Not like it matters now, anyway. --Deskana (talk) 02:04, 3 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Meh. Nobody's edited for two weeks so I'm disinclined to do anything here following that. ~ Amory ( u  •  t  •  c ) 15:09, 8 May 2010 (UTC)