Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lamg123/Archive

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Both editors are 100% for things Cousteau, including Philippe Cousteau Jr. and Jan Cousteau
 * Lamg123 showed up at the Philippe Cousteau article and did this, adding a bunch of copyvio, promo content to the article, including a picture that was copyvio from Cousteau's website
 * Lamg123 then edit warred it back in
 * Hocus Pocus arrived a few days later and added back the same photo
 * and then Hocus Pocus added all that back again here; this time it was OK as the the Cousteaus had given permission through OTRS.
 * then Lamg123 came back again today and restored all the promo

They have similarly tag-teamed on the Jan Cousteau article.

This is either sock or meat, clearly. Jytdog (talk) 04:36, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the CU, User:Bbb23. When you say "unlikely to be meat" are you also addressing the behavioral evidence of trying to insert the same COPYVIO image and each being a SPA, or just the CU results?  If the latter, I still ask for admin review per behavioral MEAT.  I understand that this is the board for MEAT as well as socking.   Those two aspects of the behavior are pretty clear evidence of MEAT to me.   Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 18:09, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Bbb23], thanks for your reply! The Cousteaus and their companies/shows have locations in Europe and North America and their nature shows take place all over the world.  The lack of co-location is not surprising. Jytdog (talk) 18:32, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
 * L235 - your conclusion is reasonable - thanks for your time! Jytdog (talk) 02:42, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

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❌ and unlikely to be meat.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:44, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
 * The reason I said the two accounts were unlikely to be meat is because the two users were editing from different countries thousands of miles apart. Generally, meat puppets edit from the same area. There are, of course, exceptions. Someone else will decide whether to block based on meat.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:29, 29 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm reluctantly closing this case without action. The behavioral evidence, although decent, is not good enough to support a block for meatpuppetry given the CU result. Although both accounts are blatant SPAs, I'm not confident enough to call them meatpuppets. This carries no prejudice to blocks based on any other WP policy violations there may be (such as edit warring or disruptive editing), of course, and if either of them come back and provide more evidence, feel free to file another report. I'll be leaving notes on their talk pages. Thanks for your work, . Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 02:31, 14 September 2016 (UTC)