Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Midnighthours/Archive

05 February 2012

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Using Wikipedia for promotional purposes on the article Rosa Barba, repeated insertion of unsourced material in Violation of the Biographies of living persons policy. Hu12 (talk) 21:14, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

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So, if you think it's only possible they are the same, and more likely meatpuppetry, what are you expecting a CU to reveal in this case? Frank &#124;  talk  16:11, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmm.. it seems that after their first edit, Midnighthours learned how to edit, and basically only did internal links. Conf2008, by comparison, added all the spam links. It's possible they're the same, but I kinda think this could be meatpuppetry, so I'm adding a CU. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 04:52, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Er, I was hoping CU would be able to determine whether or not this is meatpuppetry or straight socking. It could be some variant of good hand/band hand, i.e. one account makes good edits while the other adds external links - or it could be two people who just happen to know each other. CU would be able to clarify this. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 04:50, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I got that, but what I don't get is how you think this might go down. You already don't think it's socking. All a CU can do is tell you how likely it is the technical data between the two accounts match. If the answer is "highly likely", it could still be meatpuppetry. If it's not so likely...it could still be meatpuppetry. It's not clear to me where the abuse is here, and why a CU should be doing a check in this case. If another CU sees it, that's fine with me, but...I don't get it. If the accounts are violating policy, let's alert them to the policy (or policies) they are violating. Frank  &#124;  talk  13:29, 8 February 2012 (UTC)


 * unless requestor explains more clearly with diffs. - Mailer Diablo 14:02, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't think the sock issue is really a big matter in this case. COI and promotion is another matter, but that can be handled via another process if it becomes necessary NW ( Talk ) 20:59, 9 February 2012 (UTC)