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24 February 2012

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I may be wrong about this, but it's fishy enough for me to open an investigation. This concerns the articles Ryan Nawrocki and Corey P. Hughes, both currently at AfD, both identified as hoaxes. , after a two year absence from Wikipedia, created Ryan Nawrocki, and all of the users edits since have related to Nawrocki or Hughes (adding Nawrocki as an alumni of a high school, adding Nawrocki to a roster template, and vandalizing Hughes' AfD discussion.), a new account, created the Hughes hoax, and all of that user's edits are on that article, similarly adding Hughes as an alumni of a high school, adding Hughes to a roster template, and discussing and vandalizing on Nawrocki's AfD, all in similar fashion to RNCRACER. Now comes, so far with two edits, one on each of the aforementioned AfD's, one vandalism, the other a lie. The IP,, has edited regarding only those two articles. Both of the new user names relate to college athletic programs. In AfD discussions, all use the same phrase, "Don't Delete", rather than the standard "Keep". It gives me the sense they're the same user. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:38, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

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 * I was coming here to file the same sockpuppet report, but Muboshgu beat me to it. I totally agree with everything Muboshgu said. Bgwhite (talk) 19:57, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

It isn't hard to do an I.P. check to show that we are different people. I have had an account since 2006 and never used the other person's IP. Give me a break. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RNCRACER (talk • contribs) 20:09, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Given what I described above, it was worth inquiring through proper channels. I apologize for implicating you if you are indeed not the same user as those socks, though there is still the matter of the hoax page you created. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:13, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Sorry. Honestly was doing a check for a college paper on if I could get a page to stick on Wikipedia and how long. It made it quite a long time since it is still up as I type this, but I expect the page to be removed. This was a one time incident and it isn't going to happen again, I have no "record" of vandalism besides this incident since 2005. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RNCRACER (talk • contribs) 20:27, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, the Narocki page was first proposed for deletion about 24 hours after you created it, and it's been going through the typical process, though it would've been deleted sooner if I had done my due diligence and researched the player on a stats site rather than only Google news. On the one hand, I can appreciate the experiment, but on the other, I don't think hoax pages are ever "acceptable", even for research purposes. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:47, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry for any headaches I have caused. I can assure you that this is my only account on Wikipedia and this should be closed. This was an informative experiment in more ways than one, I have finally after over 6 years learned how to sign my name in a talk page. Ryan (talk) 20:53, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * "This" being the Sockpuppet investigation against me. Ryan (talk) 20:53, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

And I edited a line in my above post and got a warning for vandalism?? What is that? Would request to have that removed please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RNCRACER (talk • contribs) 20:32, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
✅ the following are the same:
 * Their connection to is . No comment on the IP.  TN X Man  20:01, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I've moved this case to show Mizzoufan as the master. Blocked and tagged the two confirmed socks, and warned the master. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:49, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Their connection to is . No comment on the IP.  TN X Man  20:01, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I've moved this case to show Mizzoufan as the master. Blocked and tagged the two confirmed socks, and warned the master. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:49, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I've moved this case to show Mizzoufan as the master. Blocked and tagged the two confirmed socks, and warned the master. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:49, 25 February 2012 (UTC)