Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mwehrenberg/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Besides the username, the master created a promotional userpage about Michael Wehrenberg, the IP created the same content as a draft, and then Valeriewerhernberg pops up to contest deletion of the draft with a similar rationale that the master gave for not deleting the userpage. Could be sock, could be meat, could be WP:BROTHER, but pretty clearly something is going on here. IP included for completeness. creffett (talk) 01:03, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

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 * My guess is that User:Mwehrenberg and User:Valeriewehrenberg are family members, and while this is certainly a violation of WP:AUTO, WP:COI, WP:G11, WP:NOT and so on, I'm not convinced this is a case of WP:SOCK, with the implication of an intent to deceive. The IP geolocates to Springfield, MO, where the subject of Draft:Michael Wehrenberg lives.  Again, tied back to the same person, but I'm not convinced there's any deceptive intent.  My suggestion is to drop a bunch of warning templates on the various user talk pages to make sure they're aware of our policies and hope that solves the problem.  If it doesn't, we can block at that time.  -- RoySmith (talk) 03:56, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Dropped some uw-agf-sock warnings on the named accounts and a uw-coi on Valerie. Closing. Cabayi (talk) 10:55, 21 October 2019 (UTC)