Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Musicfan000/Archive

05 March 2014

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While doing New Page Patrol I ran into Cody R Burns, an article about a non-notable actor. The article struck me as off; it was created by a brand new user, with an infobox and perfect referencing that (on the face of it) appeared legitimate, while not actually meeting our standards. Fine, some people just get a handle on the process before they get a handle on the policy, but I kept browsing around and stumbled upon Matt Salinas, which has the same writing style, same subject matter, same everything - except for a completely different source account. I suspect that what we're looking at is at best sockpuppeting and at worst undisclosed paid editing, and I'd like a CU to do a sniff to see if there's anything else out there and confirm a relationship between these users Ironholds (talk) 23:33, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

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 * and are ✅ from .--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  17:31, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
 * thanks! May I suggest a block? Ironholds (talk) 18:17, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
 * How odd, your ping didn't work (but I have the SPI watchlisted). Usually the clerks do the blocking, tagging and whatnot - they're so quick and efficient! We have been backlogged as of late however, so I'll do the blocks. If I had my druthers you would still be able to do it yourself!--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 18:31, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Aha; didn't know that! I suspect the ping issue is a signing problem. And, nice use of 'druthers' :). Ironholds (talk) 18:44, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Both accounts tagged, closing. NativeForeigner Talk 19:13, 6 March 2014 (UTC)