Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Michael Holland Shepard/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets




Evidence submitted by Declan Clam
The 1st account was blocked for making unsourced claims that MHS was the author of Puff, the Magic Dragon, The Fool on the Hill and other songs. The 2nd account was evidently created to get around the block and used for the same purpose. The IP is now trying it on. Declan Clam (talk) 01:24, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Add - a second IP has also made edits containing this claim Declan Clam (talk) 01:35, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Comments by other users
189.220.19.49 has been playing this game on Puff, the Magic Dragon over the past several months also. I gave a week block. Googling finds that MHS claiming to be a widely plagiarized songwriter is an internet hoax on all sorts of user-contributed-content internet sites, not just Wikipedia. DMacks (talk) 22:09, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * ✅ as:
 * Steve goodman michael
 * Michael shepard, holland
 * Michael Holland Shepard. Brandon (talk) 01:40, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions
The following administrative actions have been taken:
 * 1) All registered accounts have been indefinitely blocked and tagged.
 * 2) 201.170.22.182 blocked 3 days as an IP sock puppet of the above.
 * 3) Puff, the Magic Dragon has been semi-protected for 3 months. MuZemike 22:53, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Flowerpotman
added the allegation that the song Rocky Top was plagiarized from a song by Michael Holland Shepard diff, which in essence is the claim made by the sock account diff, as well as  one of the other IPs uncovered in the first checkuser. .

An edit making the same claim was made by  last night (UTC). diff

A quick check for this most prolific of composers found that A Horse with No Name was edited last night with the same claim made by the IP here, much as this edit by. (Someone will probably have to check for more edits when the database has updated a bit more, as they might take time to show.)

Probably not enough to go for a checkuser, with so few edits, but enough to say DUCK! and say that the Michael Holland Shepard vandal is back. FlowerpotmaN &middot;( t ) 23:38, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Comments by other users

 * Forrest Gump 2013 indef'ed. DMacks (talk) 02:45, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * Tagged as such. ~ Amory ( u •  t  •  c ) 06:34, 28 January 2010 (UTC)