Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Michael Reed 1975/Archive

07 December 2013

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User:Michael Reed 1975 is citing his own work in Culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The inclusion is being discussed on the article talk page at Talk:Culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. No consensus has yet been reached, but he continues to add his book. User:This Guy 52, a recently created account, has now added back the citation under discussion as its sole contribution as well as a statement of support for including Reed's work on This Guy 52's talk page. Suspect either a sockpuppet or meatpuppet based on this activity. Bahooka (talk) 00:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

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 * Had also wondered similar things about users: Johnnym55 and Makelan - since one is also a new user and the other has come out of nowhere after just a few contributions, with the most recent being nearly 3 years ago. User Kaimipono also had a few brief contributions 4+ months ago, with a total of less than 60, most of which are between 2 and 7 years old.  User Michael Reed 1975 may be trying to illicit support from those not normally participating in the WP process.  That in itself is not a problem, if all in good faith - and without such things as "sockpuppetry."  User has clearly misunderstood messages conveyed and is so focused on one small portion of article and all that is going on that it just seems at odds with typical WP use and guidelines.  Accusations of apologists and censoring aren't on target. ChristensenMJ (talk) 02:26, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * The more activity I see, the more it appears there may be meatpuppetry because of the number of new editors to this article, some with very few edits. Not sure if this is the right forum for that. Bahooka (talk) 04:59, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Not sure if you mean this space may not be the right place for addressing possible meatpuppetry - or exactly what's intended. I am not sure where or how it might be considered, since even the WP guideline/name of meatpuppetry itself is new to me, based on your identification of it.  Like you, I just recognized what appeared to be that issue, not knowing there was a name for it!  Guide this where ever may be needed. ChristensenMJ (talk) 06:16, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I agree that there might be come off wiki co-ordination involved, and due to this, the use of autoconfirmed accounts and the long running edit war I've fully protected the article for a week. Which I'm happy to extend, or block users who continue to war after the protection ends. I'll leave it to others more knowledgeable of what is done with the accounts in these cases. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:07, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * No action needed anymore, been/being resolved on the article's talk page. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:37, 21 December 2013 (UTC)