Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Matthias-da/Archive

15 March 2016

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Article in question is Austrian Journal of Statistics, which has an AFD open. It was created by the suspected master on March 2, who stated in their edit summary, "The previous page has been deleted. Why? Why should Wikipedia does not include information on a very author-friendly journal with a long history?" It was soon XFD'd, and the other Matthias asked for it to be kept (this comment was copied into the AFD), this was as their first edit. Then we have Alexkowa, another SPA whose only edits were to work on the article and then say this on the AFD:. Requesting CU due to the open AFD. GABHello! 20:16, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * between the accounts is the best connection I can make, with all the other data being . -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 14:20, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * There isn't enough here, IMO, to reliably distinguish between sockpuppetry and multiple individuals who are all interested in / connected to the Austrian Journal of Statistics. In any case, the AFD went against them, and the article was merged into another article.  At this point, I don't feel comfortable doing anything more.  Closing now without further action — if someone tries to undo the merge, especially if they just edit-war everything back without going through proper procedures for reconsidering the AFD, then it may be appropriate to revisit this.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 04:20, 3 April 2016 (UTC)