Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mr RD/Archive

19 January 2014

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User:Rodolfinho Porto is a quite obvious sock, he created his account two minutes before creating Articles for deletion/Melanie Müller, he nominated the article with a very short and vague rationale (fails WP:BIO), he created two short messages in his talk page and user page to do not appear a new user, with the relevant redlinks turning bluelinks in his signature, he finally disappeared. Six minutes after Rodolfinho made his last edit, User:Rafaelgriffin, who is a relatively new account almost enterely active in AfD discussions and who was previously disconnected, jumps out to vote delete the article with a very short rationale (No sign of notability.), then disappears. While the Rodolfinho's rationale in the AfD is quite elementary, it is very similar to several comments of Rafaelgriffin in other AfDs : note the shortness of the comments, the same structure (Fails WP:... + signature) and that both the editors forget the punctuation before their signature. More interestingly, the opening message in the Rodolfinho's user page is very similar to the (now modified) one created by Rafaelgriffin (see here). Use of sock appears to be an attempt to address an AfD discussion towards deletion, failing a policy/guideline-based compelling argument, through meatpuppetry. Also note that Rafaelgriffin appears to be, he himself, a sock of someone else (looking at his contribution history, and  could be hardly believed as the second and third edit in WP of a completely new user who had just started editing). Cavarrone 21:05, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

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 * is a ✅ sock account of master account, as is . appears technically ❌ to any of the named accounts.--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  18:07, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: this SPI moved to this title from Sockpuppet investigations/Rafaelgriffin. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:12, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Confirmed socks tagged and blocked indef, master blocked two weeks. Closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:14, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

24 January 2014

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1. Account has edited Mr RD's talk page archiving settings.

2. Account has created an article about Overstock.com executive, Stormy D. Simon, just a couple of weeks after Mr RD edited the Overstock.com article section Overstock.com.
 * (Please delete the Simon article per CSD G11.)

3. Account awarded a barnstar to Mr RD for that account's work on the now-AfD-deleted article "The Europe List".

Please also do a CheckUser to look for additional sleeper socks, since Mr RD has already been convicted for sockpuppetry in the past.

If you need more evidence, please don't close this case; maybe I can find more for you.

Cheers, —Unforgettableid (talk) 03:14, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

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 * is a ✅ sock.--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 17:39, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Blocked indef, closing. Legoktm (talk) 22:09, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

12 February 2014

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Earlier on, Articles for deletion/Khon Kaen MICE Tourism was closed as "delete". Mr RD was surely unhappy about this.

Next, Yarikata created MICE industry in Thailand, which seems to be an attempt to compensate for the deletion.

I have no evidence that Mr RD and Yarikata are connected other than the fact that they have both created articles about the MICE industry in Thailand. Let's do a CheckUser and see if that proves them to be the same person.

P.S. Please speedy-delete MICE industry in Thailand as "db-repost" and/or "db-spam".

—Unforgettableid (talk) 06:58, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

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The article created by Yarikata was substantially different from those created by Mr RD. Checkuser isn't for fishing; unless there is some valid behavioural evidence linking these two accounts, it seems unlikely that any sockpuppetry is taking place. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  13:39, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Closing as I'm in agreement with Yunshui on this. Mark Arsten (talk) 22:32, 17 February 2014 (UTC)