Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mfallon317/Archive

18 December 2014

 * Suspected sockpuppets


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Single-edit account but edits Arms industry within 22 minutes of the master and cites the exact same OXFAM reference, quoting the same page numbers. This is rather loud quacking. Alternatively we have some type of coordination going on. Possibly an unannounced educational project. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 02:59, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Evidence


 * Master Mfallon317 adds at :20 min past the hour a big chunk of copyvio text including multiple references to:
 * Sock Cdugan1 adds at :42 min past the hour a big chunk of text including multiple references to:.
 * I agree that no blocking is required now that it has become more clear that this is probably some unannounced educational project. Initially I was alarmed by the edit-warring and repeated copyvios of Mfallon317 despite the warnings. When I saw the other account I initially thought that this was an attempt at socking. But the username type as well as some subtle differences between the two made me realise that these could be project edits. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 05:02, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
This does indeed look like several users on an educational project. I don't think blocking, therefore, is required: instead, we need to tell the users what's wrong with their edits and teach them how to become good contributors. Unless there are any objections, I think we can close this as no action needed - blocking is unnecessary. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (Message me) 20:32, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Agreed, this situation is best handled through educating the users about copyright and how to contribute to Wikipedia, rather than with a heavy-handed block. Mike V  •  Talk  21:53, 19 December 2014 (UTC)