Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Malaria/Archive

Report date May 31 2009, 02:43 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Somehow the above user knows of the existence of the AFD, even though it had ended a day or so before, and jumps right in to blank it before moving on to recreate the page that was deleted. Please tell me how a brand-new account finds an AFD for an article that was previously deleted? I would really like to know. Besides that, this user apparently knows of WP:DRV, as seen when he blanks the page, here, not to mention they know about CSD and AIV.

Off topic for a second, the article for which the diffs link to has been restored for this investigation, and shall be deleted at the conclusion.—  Dæ dαlus Contribs  02:43, 31 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Evidence submitted by Daedalus969


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

In reviewing the most recent edits to this title, I have reason to believe that the following may be affiliated: --PMDrive1061 (talk) 02:52, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users
 * User:72.71.211.134
 * User:67.150.141.69 both of which had identical edit summaries
 * User:KTKF which seems to be affiliated with this subject's promotional staff.

Requested by —  Dæ dαlus Contribs  02:43, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

CU is required to see if this vandal, who knows of several things only a long time editor would know of, is indeed a sockpuppet of the aforementioned user, and not a implicating sock just as those created by the Axeman8 sockmaster to try and implicate axeman, or such as those created by Pioneercourthouse, again to try and get others in trouble. Although the article created by the suspected sock is not at all similar to the first edit of the article, the timing, and noted diffs above are what cause concern about this user.—  Dæ dαlus Contribs  02:43, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Malaria is stale, having last edited in 2006. Furthermore there is no evidence linking Malaria to this account, which is already blocked as a vandal-only account. The only link is Malaria's one edit to the deleted version of Cancerslug, which was the creation of a stub, and Malaria is not blocked. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 11:20, 31 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Nothing left to do. — Jake   Wartenberg  23:51, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

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