Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Koalascare/Archive

30 May 2014

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User:Syndicatesgirlfiendsshoe edits A11 page Mianite shortly after it's created by User:Koalascare, and Syndicate is a term appearing in the article. User:TheLandOfMiainite appears to be clearly referencing the subject of the same article. All created in the span of 15 minutes or so.  Dwpaul  Talk   21:36, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 14:45, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

31 May 2014

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All SPAs on the same now-deleted article Mianite and/or adding mention of Mainite to Tom Cassell, as was Koalascare. Rachelb135 was created at exactly the same time as Koalascare, Finnt3onwiki two minutes later. and Leviman700 within one-half hour. H20 SegmentedHades and Yotack00 were created within minutes of each other about one hour after Koalascare. Meters (talk) 19:58, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Add two more: AgilityMaster recreated the speedied article Mianite. Syndicate's left shoes girlfriend created today with no edits so far, but username is nearly identical to the already blocked sock user:Syndicatesgirlfiendsshoe. Meters (talk) 20:25, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

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 * I just got an unblock request from Syndicatesgirlfiendsshoe, who claims that a Youtuber, Syndicate, asked his subscribers to make the Mianite page. While I'm attempting to verify this, please keep this possibility in mind; if it is true, then we should avoid biting them and instead teach them about WP:MEAT and WP:WEB. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 23:11, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Per this video (around 2:10:00), Tom Cassell does indeed ask his followers to create a Wikipedia article on Mianite. I have created a new template, uw-meatwarn, designed for "good-faith" meatpuppets, as is the case when a popular figure asks their fans to make a Wikipedia page on them. More of these will likely pop up; just slap the uw-meatwarn template on them and salt their pages. I have also unblocked the users I had previously blocked. Closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 05:09, 1 June 2014 (UTC)