Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Medstudent213/Archive

24 February 2013

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Suspected sock appeared after a dispute developed on William C. Rader and its associated talk page. Both suspected sock and suspected master have only edited at this page or the User pages of editors involved in the dispute. this diff also seems suspicious, a new editor immediately reverting a deletion on the talk page as his/her third edit, less than half an hour after account creation. [ UseTheCommandLine ~/talk ] #_ 23:52, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Addendum: They also appear to sign their names in exactly the same way, which I have not seen before, which results in a "User talk:" link only, rather than "$Username (talk) $datetime" -- [ UseTheCommandLine ~/talk ] #_ 23:57, 24 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Additional note: this is not a universal, it appears only to have happened during this discussion but it is curious. -- [ UseTheCommandLine ~/talk ] #_ 00:10, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

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 * - Two newbies appear out of nowhere just to edit war on an article about a controversial figure? Very suspicious. Especially given the similarities of signature as mentioned, shown here: . Someguy1221 (talk) 00:38, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Normally I would have just ducked this case, but something smelt stronger than two ducks. ✅:

-- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  05:38, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocking master 2 weeks, socks indef. Closing. Rschen7754 05:41, 25 February 2013 (UTC)