Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/KyleMillerGolf/Archive

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These accounts both have done nothing but create a draft on Kyle Miller (golfer). This may be a good-faith violation, as in the author may have lost the password to the first account, but one of the accounts should be blocked because the rule is one account for one human being. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:22, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Oops - I think that I have reversed which account I listed as the master and which as the sock. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:24, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

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 * This user, is currently being helped in the IRC -help channel. They have requested a rename since they apparently thought that they should name themselves after the article name they wanted to create [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Changing_username/Simple&diff=prev&oldid=820872972]. Whether or not they are the same person is a different matter (although any data at this point would be stale). I really think this is more of an honest mistake than deliberate subterfuge. --Majora (talk) 03:43, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh well. While there was no edit conflict this was posted after the comment by the clerk below closing the case. Wanted to make that clear. --Majora (talk) 03:44, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * User:Majora - Well, well. The mistake that some new editors think that an account name must match the article name.  We have seen this before.  This is Murphy's Law extended.  Murphy's Law is that, if anything can possibly go wrong, it will.  The extension is that things that can't possibly go wrong also will.  The idea that an account name and an article name must match doesn't follow from anything in the instructions to new editors.  It is something that is guessed at incorrectly for what seems like no obvious reason to regulars.  It also causes considerable confusion when the author is advised of the autobiography policy and then protests that they are not the person whose name they are using.  Robert McClenon (talk) 15:44, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

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 * While this is probably the same person, there's no actual abuse here. Closing without action. Sir Sputnik (talk) 03:41, 17 January 2018 (UTC)