Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lisunova/Archive

24 May 2011

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Alexsol89 and Lisunova have both created articles related to Entensys, and Alexsol89's account was created within an hour of Lisunova's stopped editing. Also, Alexsol89 removed an AfD template from the article Lisunova created. gz 33 (talk) 09:46, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

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There is no doubt that these two accounts are run either by the same person or by two people who are closely associated together. Apart from the points mentioned above, they both created Entensys using substantially identical wording. None of that wording can be found elsewhere by Google searching, so clearly they both have access to the same text off-wiki. Having said that, I don't see any sign that the two accounts are being used abusively. I see no sign of use of the accounts for the purposes of Creating an illusion of support, Circumventing policies or sanctions, Avoiding scrutiny, or any other uses listed at Sock puppetry. If the accounts are both used by the same person then they are "Contributing to the same page or discussion with multiple accounts", which is prohibited, but it is entirely likely that they are two different people, in which case contributing to the same page is not in itself a problem, unless it is done with some sort of ill-motive (such as the intention of appearing to be two unrelated editors independently supporting one another in a dispute, which has not happened). I am leaving this case open for now, to see if anyone else has anything to contribute that might point to a different conclusion, but at present it seems to me that all that is needed is a warning to both accounts, which I will give. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:12, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I have to agree, let us know if these accounts become abusive. --  DQ  (t)   (e)  12:14, 24 May 2011 (UTC)