Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mastermusicgenius/Archive

08 August 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets


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Suspcisious edit pattern of only a few related articles between the two accounts Gaijin42 (talk) 20:04, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

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 * I see overlap and coincidence and mostly dormant accounts rather than nefarious intent. I may be wrong, I've been wrong before, but my choice would be to close this as Wait and see and leave the two editors blameless until proven otherwise. Checkuser may reveal something else, of course. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 21:13, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
— Berean Hunter   (talk)  12:57, 9 August 2012 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:23, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * - as the edits for Dphillips1950 are stale. This will have to be decided on behavioral evidence.
 * Added, as pointed out at Articles for deletion/Michael Blakey. These users certainly share an interest in the same pages. Dphillips1950 and Bassfantastic even have similar user pages (created on the same day!). It could just as easily be three different people with some sort of connection, of course. I don't think I'm seeing a clear case of abuse here, although the edits to the deleted Michael Blakey page (no relation to the current article) do seem promotional in nature. I'd close this as inconclusive for now, especially considering that the two other accounts are long since inactive. Jafeluv (talk) 20:34, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Closing as no action taken at this time. If there is future evidence of socking, please refile.