Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MichiganGroup/Archive

01 February 2014

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Two accounts with nearly identical names, both WP:SPA, only editing the page James R. Fouts. One edit, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_R._Fouts&diff=593461993&oldid=593338986, has already been suppressed because of WP:OUTING. The other edit, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_R._Fouts&diff=567762494&oldid=565234481, is innocuous. The larger question is being discussed at ANI and at COIN. It is surmised that there is other sockpuppetry going on related to accounts editing this page, but this one case is unambiguous. Edward Vielmetti (talk) 22:45, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The previous account is stale, so running a checkuser on it won't be helpful. I'm not sure there's any evidence of abuse of multiple accounts, since the accounts' contributions don't overalap at all. It's entirely possible that this is a case of a forgotten password or something. A block may be merited for other non-sockpuppetry reasons though. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:03, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Per Mark's decline. Bbb23 (talk) 10:20, 2 February 2014 (UTC)