Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Livewire123/Archive

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Likely case of sock or meat puppetry. The suspected sockmaster (User:Livewire123) joined the project months ago, and dedicated most of their contributions to trying to create Julian W. Lucas. When an AfD concerning that article ended in a delete on 3 July, Livewire123 ceased editing for a month before making an unrelated edit on 1 August. This morning a entirely new editor, User:Number1guru, created Draft:Julian W. Lucas with their first ever edit. Requesting checkuser. SamHolt6 (talk) 16:00, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

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There is absolutely no sock puppetting at all. I reached out to a friend to help create the page as he is way better at this stuff then me. The new page that he published is significantly updated with an additional 6 new sources from various newspapers. I was under no impression that asking for help to create a page that won't get deleted is against the rules. When the original page was being voted on to being deleted I didn't recruit a single person to try and vote in my favor and you can check the records on that. I never attempted to republish the page because there was an issue with not enough sources. I waited until enough new sources emerged. Livewire123 (talk) 17:14, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
❌.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:45, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Based on Livewire123's comment, I've blocked both accounts without tags for meat puppetry.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:20, 2 August 2019 (UTC)