Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lotusleaves/Archive

10 June 2010

 * Suspected sockpuppets

User:Lotusleaves created the page Cory Allen (Musician) which as of this writing is up for AfD. After several concurrences for delete by fellow editors, User:trichocereus appears and - for his first contribution - starts making claims of notability, then denies he is a sock, stating that he found the Wikipedia page on "the first page" of Google results. A quick check by myself indicated that this page is *not* on the first page of Google results at all, but on the fourth. I suspect User:trichocereus is a sock or meatpuppet. Mr. Vernon (talk) 04:42, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Mr. Vernon (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    This case should be clearly fatuous to any user. Honestly, I find it insulting but at least it was a conduit to healthy guffaw. The other user User:trichocereus said they found the article by searching for the subject in Google and wanted to add their knowledge to the discussion. Apparently Mr. Vernon was trigger-happy and couldn't wait to make the accusation as the other user later posted a correction that they had initially mistyped their search terms (corrected as 'Cory Allen Musician') which lead them to the article, and if you search the term, you will find trichocereus to be correct. I suggest Mr. Vernon take a cool_down and read WP:NOASSUMESOCK (re: new user leaps straight into areas of the project that the accusers think to be obscure'). As for the IP discrepancy, I was wondering about that myself. I was logged in and it posted as my IP instead of my user name. Its clear I wasn't trying to come off as anyone else as I state 'I decided to register in order to help build the database and make an entry' and the posts under my IP came up after the sock investigation. Maybe a Wiki-glitch? I hope Wikipedia looks into this and gives Mr. Vernon a warning or advice on how to make more accurate and warranted accusations. Peace.Lotusleaves (talk) 23:09, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Added IP 99.184.76.216, which is clearly the same user, although this seems to be a case of failing to log in more than anything else. Hairhorn (talk) 16:09, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * FWIW, this may also have been an attempt to sway the deletion discussion by off-wiki canvassing. In either case, the AFD closed as "delete". No action taken at this time per WP:AGF. –MuZemike 23:57, 23 June 2010 (UTC)