Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Neurosciency/Archive

23 August 2013

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Sockmaster is likely paid editor (I have evidence off-wiki). Mqfix is an SPA which has solely edited Prosoft Engineering and made links to this page and to The Data Rescue Center (Prosoft product) on List of data recovery software  , that last edit being on Aug 21. On the same day, sockmaster added link to List of data recovery software here for The Data Rescue Center, which redirects to Prosoft Engineering. Could be trying to evade detection or simply forgot to change accounts when making second link to same article on Aug 21. Logical Cowboy (talk) 21:38, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

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I'm glad i used the search function to search for my username on all the wiki help/admin pages, because this is weird. This is my account, which i created two months ago to create the article Rivka Bertisch Meir. I have a couple of accounts from a few years ago but I forgot the passwords and don't use them. I had to look up what a sockpuppet is, and my account is not one. I don't have time to troll wikipedia, i love knowledge, and i have several other jobs (and yes, being an freelance writer has been one of them, as is posted somewhere on here, i can't find it at the moment).

I have been a pretty low key contributer to wikipedia for a while - couldn't have gotten through grad school without it. I'm sorry that whatever misunderstanding happened has escalated wildly out of proportion. Oh well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Neurosciency (talk • contribs) 05:53, 27 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Also using  to remove comments made by other contributors from AFD and it edited   Jonathan Pease (creative director) article which created by the main account .Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 07:21, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is my IP, sometimes I forget to sign in. But actually, that was only one comment, which you posted on Jimmy Wales' talk page suggesting that I was involved in libelous activity, which I was not.  (in retrospect, i probably shouldn't have deleted it and instead left a comment, but i didn't know that anyone actually reads that talk page, and also it was not entirely accurate.) That was re: the page of Robin Haynes which got deleted (because I asked wiki editors to delete it).  This is also discussed on another wikipedia page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Integrity/Editor_Registry#Negative_BLP_being_written_by_Paid_Editor.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Neurosciency (talk • contribs) 08:29, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Also, i'm *only* an editor on elance, and not even that, because mostly i "work" for free. i'm new to article writing and frankly, my freelance wiki jobs were to gain more experience in wiki editing (over half of them have been rejected and/or speedy deleted anyway) so i can contribute other articles later.  but anyway, now that i've ranted about all of this, i'm perfectly fine with you closing my account, especially given the stance towards paid editors (which i am currently not because i familiarized myself with wiki 'ethics' in the past few days), if that's the decision.Neurosciency (talk) 08:55, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Paid editing, socking, and not bothering to learn the rules are pretty disruptive activities.  Also, your comments above, where you minimize this issue, are highly misleading.  The problem is not that you have some old accounts that you no longer use.  The problem is that on Aug 21, you made promotional (probably paid) edits on List of data recovery software from two different accounts.  Logical Cowboy (talk) 01:01, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't have two different accounts. Someone told me to edit that one page to add their software (which already had a wiki page) to the list of data recovery software.  So I did.  But then I didn't take the job.  That other account is not me.  I don't know who that person is.  Presumably someone else on Elance or from the company the page was about.  Also I didn't get paid to make that edit.  It just seemed like a logical thing to do given that the page was about data recovery software and already on Wikipedia. Neurosciency (talk) 02:14, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * also i just thought of something, this could probably be resolved fairly easily if you had the ip address of that other account, and looked up their location (prosoft is based in CA). i don't know if wikipedia tracks IP addresses of logged-in users' edits though (although i don't know how easy it is to fake an IP address).  anyway, i don't really want to waste too much of your time on this, just trying to keep my account/ip from being banned based on incorrect information. Neurosciency (talk) 02:28, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, you deny sockpuppeting. You could have said that in 500 fewer words, rather than the tangled mess that appears above.  Logical Cowboy (talk) 02:45, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - I'm sorry, but aside from the similar interests and the fact that both are basically spammers, they do not smell like the same person. This is not to say that they are innocent, simply that I believe they are innocent of socking. Someguy1221 (talk) 22:44, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Closed, per Someguy1221. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:00, 2 September 2013 (UTC)