Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Maryamfotouhi/Archive

30 January 2013

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Seems obvious on the face of it. All four accounts were created recently and all are SPA's with regard to Adrian Parr and the associated AFD - Articles for deletion/Adrian Parr.

At the AFD, the second account has admitted to being "logged in" as the first account. That's very WP:MEATY, obviously, but strange when you consider that the first account was created, dumped a ready-made article into WP and has not edited since. The claim that someone was "borrowing" an active account from a friend would seem to be bogus. If nothing else, accounts 1 and 2 are (as confirmed by the editor him/herself) one in the same. The first account created the article and the second account showed up at AFD to !vote keep, but openly admitted as much.

The third also showed up at the AFD out of the blue to query a comment but hasn't voted. The fourth has not showed up at AFD and has made only one edit, to the subject article, which was auto-tagged as a possible COI violation.

As has been pointed out by another editor, the article has had issues since the AFD started and the influx of brand new SPAs isn't helping. Given the seeming willingness to create a new account for almost every edit, I'm concerned about sleeper accounts once the AFD closes. Stalwart 111  00:11, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * His story checks out, so I will refrain commenting on Maryamfotouhi and the Zgravity account. Opensourceanth and AvantikaB are ❌ to each other and to this group, so it appears, --  DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  00:56, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Mostly likely this is a pile of meatpuppets drawn here by off-site encouragement. Nothing more for SPI to do. Someguy1221 (talk) 01:38, 30 January 2013 (UTC)