Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mephy22/Archive

18 December 2011

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In October 2007, User:Mephy1 created Alex Otterlei using words such as "sought-after Belgian composer", etc. By 29 May 2011 these peacock terms had been largely removed, but today another user, User:Mephy22, has started up, inserting sentences such as "multiple award-winning composer who writes evocative and often very filmic music" and "Alex Otterlei is an especially talented and original composer. His scores testify of a strongly driven epical desire, imagination and musical strength." I think the similarity in usernames speaks for itself... not sure what action needs to be taken here, as there isn't much blatant abuse, but using two accounts to insert POV material seems a little deceptive.  Arctic   Night  16:09, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Oops. Just realised a checkuser may not be available for this one due to the age of the first account.  Arctic   Night  19:49, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * - Indeed, the accused sock account is very, with no edits since 2007 (which would technically make it the master account if a clerk would like to move this to the appropriate case name). Tiptoety  talk 17:41, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
 * They've racked up more edits as Mephy22, so I'm fine with them being the master. There isn't much abuse of accounts here, what with four years of silence between the accounts. Maybe they just forgot their login, who knows. I'm closing with no action taken. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 04:21, 20 December 2011 (UTC)