Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ludivinnee/Archive

20 June 2012

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User:Ludinvee starts the promo article Bobby Smith, Jr. The promo article isn't found by search engines which distresses User:Bobbysmithjr47 who posts on Village pump (technical) diff for assistance. After comments that his username seems connected to the article the same request is posted by User:Gmscheimer diff Secretlondon (talk) 05:22, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

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The AFD has ended as delete. Any accounts that edited the page (requires admin review) should be blocked and a warning given to the master. Since the other accounts didn't !vote, and don't seem to have actually done anything violating the sock policy as far as I can see, the master may not need to be blocked. That is obviously up to the deciding admin however, as I could be misinterpreting the policy. Regards, MacMedtalk stalk 01:00, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

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Quite clearly the same person, but I'm not seeing a policy violation here. All the other accounts have done is to post to the Village Pump, and it's understandable they would want to change username after it was pointed out to Bobbysmithjr47 that the similarity of the username to the article topic would be a problem. Jafeluv (talk) 07:25, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The name change from the article subject to Gmscheimer may not be socking so much as it is an attempt to comply with username complaints but there is clearly promotional work being done and a checkuser could tell us whether this is socks or meats. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—►  14:44, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
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 * Tiptoety talk 08:03, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
 * On hold during current AFD which closes by the 28th, contemplating blocks or not as some of these accounts have no edits. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  17:56, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Two listed socks indef, master 1 month. The other confirmed could be at the same gateway but haven't edited, so not blocked.  Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  01:14, 1 July 2012 (UTC)