Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Milford2012/Archive

12 July 2012

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All three are making similar edits to the Ohio University and Miami University articles that do not meet the WP:UNIGUIDE guidelines regarding structure. All are newly created accounts: Evidian8 on May 23, 2012; Fidelity6 on July 9, 2012; and Tomthedentist on July 11, 2012. They support one another's non-standard edits at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Universities and reverting at those university articles. At the discussion Tomthedentist stated that he was a long-time editor and financial contributor to Wikipedia, whereas his account was only created yesterday. 72Dino (talk) 19:46, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

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 * Comment - Not just OU and Miami but other colleges and high schools schools in Ohio and adjoining states such as Cinncinati, Northern Kentucky, Transylvania U (Ky). Note also the fondness of both Evidian8 and Fidelity6 for one (pretty obscure) color presentation template:  Example1, Example2  JohnInDC (talk) 20:03, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Additional evidence in the form of timing that cannot be coincidental: The three accounts stopped editing, almost simultaneously, for a couple of days following July 12, with their last edits at 13:14, 13:20 and 13:45 (eastern US time).  Evidian made three edits on July 14; then all three reactivated, sequentially, on July 15 beginning with Fidelity6 (four edits between 17:11 and 18:56), handing off to Tomthedentist (three edits from 19:06 through 19:14) and thereupon to Evidian8 (two edits, 19:18 & 19:22).  JohnInDC (talk) 01:04, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
 * It also seems extremely unlikely that any two separate editors would share such an idiosyncratic overlap in interests as Rob Portman (Senator from Ohio) and Welsh American, both of which pages have been edited by Evidian8 and Fidelity6. JohnInDC (talk) 01:22, 16 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment Also note the overlapping times and dates of their edits, particularly their most recent edits to WT:UNI where all three commented in support of one another within the same 33 minute span of time. (It's possible that these are not the same editor but multiple editors who are highly coordinated but policy still applies.) ElKevbo (talk) 01:32, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

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 * Changed master to oldest account. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  16:31, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Indefs all around due to the massive amounts of socking. Reblocked NorKenUni, who had a name block, as a sock block.  Tags for everyone.  Closing. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  16:33, 21 July 2012 (UTC)