Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ncblazin247/Archive

Report date August 30 2009, 01:45 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Cybercobra

The primary user's edits have been entirely about Favorpals. However, the user has interestingly not commented in their article's AfD at all but has continued to edit the article since the AfD started, even though they were informed about it.

Amazis' edits have been entirely on the AfD. The same goes for TraderSteve's contribs.

All this leads me to strongly suspect that said users are sockpuppets of the apparent WP:SPA User:Ncblazin247. --Cyber cobra (talk) 01:45, 30 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

There is no "sockpuppetry" going on. I, ncblazin247, work as an intern for Favorpals and this is the only wikipedia account I have. I am responsible for editing the Favorpals article. I have been staying on top of the talk about the keeping of Favorpals but have not actually commented on the page because I feel that enough key points have been made to defend Favorpal's notability. I have no relations or negotiations with Tradersteve and believe this is simply a user of favorpals that has chosen to speak out. Your accusations of sock puppetry are ridiculous and untrue. — Ncblazin247 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

I had no idea what sock puppetry was until just now. 1) I am new to wikipedia protocols, and I thought comments were done via the edit page. It seems that is not the case. 2) I have been an early adopter of Favorpals.com which I have mentioned in my comment, and feel passionate about what they are doing, I have been commenting about them in various places, and do not make apologies about that. 3) The claim that I am the same as Amazis is absolutley false. 4) Somehow I suspect cybercobra is going out of his/her way to shut this page down. I was going to respond to cybercobra's last comment via the exit page (which now seems to be the wrong approach) and now I am stuck. I find this kind of tactic highly inappropriate for the more experienced wiki users to push around the new ones, cybercobra seems to be interested in shooting first then asking questions. If they felt I was out of the protocol a simple use of talk would have sufficed. My email is available and I would be happy to further respond. Am I to understand that anyone who has wanted to keep this article have been accused of puppetry?--TraderSteve (talk) 12:13, 30 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by TraderSteve (talk • contribs) 12:01, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

I too had no idea what sock puppetry was until just now. 1) I really think that user cybercopra is trying to stonewall his argument using this disruptive method rather than stick to the course and debate the issues at hand. I have been a member of Wikipedia for more than three years.  I just was never compelled to contribute until I noticed favorpal's article, and the company's message happen to be a near and dear to my heart.   Also, reading everyone's comments, they are completely unrelated, anyone with a basic knowledge of the language can tell right away that they are written by entirely different people.  However, I would like to request a UserIP check or whatever it takes to find out the authenticity of my account in order to make sure we put this matter to sleep.

--amazis (talk) 30 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by amazis (talk • contribs) 12:01, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Note how the accused sockpuppets still have yet to make any contributions to Wikipedia outside of a token User page, the sockpuppet discussion, and of course the AfD. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 02:16, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users


 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

I have blocked Amazis and TraderSteve per WP:MEAT. I will leave a warning on Ncblazin's talk page. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 14:04, 2 September 2009 (UTC)