Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Moovzon/Archive

13 May 2014

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This user operates sockpuppets to write a fake article about himself being a "Grand Duke of Russia". He crated the article "Rani Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia" using his User:Demetriaauthor identity twice, but that article was deleted after an AFD (Articles for deletion/Rani Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia). He recreated the same article under slightly different title ("Rani Pavlovich, Grand Duke of Russia") using his User:Claudialev identity. That one was speedy deleted. He tryed to illegaly alter the result of the deletion discussion by using his sockpuppets to vote for keeping the article (here, he uses all four identities to vote against deleting). All those sockpuppet accounts are used solely for creating and discussing "Grand Duke of Russia" articles, and do not have any other edits. Vanjagenije (talk) 21:29, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

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 * I expect one or another of these editors used the now-abandoned account User:Houseofromanovofficial, but since that account was notified of username concerns and stopped editing before Demetriaauthor and Claudialev began, that wasn't sockpuppetry. That said, if this isn't sockpuppetry, it's meatpuppetry, and a particularly troublesome form. These accounts are mainly concerned with using faked sources to add highly dubious content. Both used sources that had already been determined to be faked to support their respective now-deleted versions of a hoax article. This way of deliberately corrupting the integrity of Wikipedia, in my book, is all by itself reason for an indef-block. Huon (talk) 23:15, 13 May 2014 (UTC)


 * While we're at it, may also be worth a look. Another brand-new user whose first edit consists of adding Rani Romanov and one of the faked sources to the House of Romanov article. Huon (talk) 23:27, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * &mdash;Darkwind (talk) 10:53, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Moving page to Sockpuppet investigations/Moovzon. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 09:43, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Socks blocked per WP:DUCK, no need for CU. IPs are stale. Closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 09:44, 20 May 2014 (UTC)