Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Laura Clacey/Archive

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Activity on Sxollie Cider & a call for meat puppets on the company's facebook page at. Cabayi (talk) 11:05, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

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 * Hi there, I am still very new to Wikipedia, so if this is the wrong place for this, please forgive me and advise where I should be posting.


 * In August I became a Wikipedia member and tried to write a short piece on our cider brand, SXOLLIE Cider to contribute to the body of work on craft cider within Wikipedia. I set up the company in 2014 with my husband and we have fast become the largest craft cider in South Africa. I used Wikipedia a lot to look up information on other cider brands around the world and use it to connect with these companies and find out about trends etc. I thought it would be good to have a page about our brand too so that others can see what we are doing in South Africa. Anyway, this was taken down immediately so I looked into the guidelines which I interpreted to mean that someone else needs to write it about us. We run weekly competitions on our Facebook page and so I thought it would be a quirky competition to run today in the lead up to the year end holidays. One of our fans, Graham took up the challenge and tried to get the page uploaded again. I have never met him or know anything about him other than that he regularly comments on our facebook page. I had no idea that this was against the CIO of Wikipedia and have apologised to all the contributors who were clearly outraged by what I did. I am most certainly not trying to be anything that I am not and would not have a clue how to run two profiled and copy IP addresses etc. Graham is in no way connected to the company or my business. However, I did ask the community to asssit me in getting our page on Wikipedia so I am at fault. I am not sure what the consequences of this investigation are and indeed how at fault I am here, but to give you some comfort I deleted the facebook post immediately and will never try to write anything on Wikipedia again - you are welcome to ban me from contributing, but please still allow me to research other companies on Wikipedia. Laura Clacey (talk) 12:34, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

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 * Technically, this was meatpuppetry, as it was an editor getting someone else to create an article on her behalf to get round deletion of what she had done. However, I have no reason to doubt that what Laura Clacey is true, and it was done in perfectly good faith, without realising that it was a kind of thing that is not accepted on Wikipedia. I am therefore closing this investigation without any action. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:43, 1 December 2016 (UTC)