Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Magus007/Archive

13 July 2013

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See the Alpha et Omega article. These three users appear to be engaging in meat puppetry. Magus007 is the moniker in the blogosphere of the author Nick Farrell as can be seen here: https://twitter.com/Magus007. In other words, this editor is the author himself adding his own books to the article as references. Two other editors enter the discussion fully supporting the author's self-promoting behavior one of whom (JMax555 who is Joseph Max) is a member of an organization friendly to the author. One example of this affiliation can be sen at the author's publishing house Kerubim Press website: http://kerubimpress.com/2013/05/announcing-commentaries-on-the-golden-dawn-flying-rolls/. If one googles these names there is plenty of evidence. Additionally, these three editors have collaborated together before in a similar way in support of the author Pat Zalewski. For example, see the Articles for deletion/Pat Zalewski (2nd nomination) discussion. User:Kheph777 wrote an article on the author Pat Zalewski which was deleted due to a lack of reliable third party sources. Pat Zalewski, incidentally, is an author strongly allied with the author Nick Farrell as an internet search will show. For example, this amazon advertisement for the book shows Zalewski as one of the contributing authors to Farrell's book: http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/B006O0NYSU. Finally, if one checks the contributions of these editors one will see very similar pages being edited with very similar affiliations. LEpstein5 (talk) 17:46, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * Could you please explain where the abusive use of multiple accounts has occurred? Being coworkers, friends, or otherwise having a conflict of interest is not a violation of the sock puppetry policy. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:44, 13 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Understood. I thought this might be considered meat puppetry.  Would it be better to report a conflict of interest? Thank you. LEpstein5 (talk) 02:39, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  18:59, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Closing as this would be better suited for the COI noticeboard.