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19 April 2013

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Contribution history of all accounts shows focus on obscure and probably fictitious branch of nobility - House of Cornet, George I, King of Guernsey - and their connection with Castle Cornet and Guernsey. Edit summaries contain same line of argument eg ; WP:DUCK; using all three accounts to push dubious contributions despite editors questioning WP:V Keri (talk) 13:05, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
I have deleted/reverted these undoubted hoax entries. Checkuser requested in case of sleepers: the way Patrickdene prepared the way with edits to Castle Cornet and other pages, and SJ470 then added the hoax articles House of Cornet and George I, King of Guernsey shows a degree of planning/track-covering (though the IP was involved in all three), and I would like to be sure that other socks have not planted corroborative misinformation elsewhere. JohnCD (talk) 20:46, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

I agree; the contribution histories of both accounts and the IP — as well as the (deleted) revision histories of the two deleted articles — show an elaborate, well-planned hoax, of a type that is not obviously vandalism and could conceivably have been carried out elsewhere. A CU check for other possible socks of this user would be valuable, in case he is active in other areas that haven't shown up yet. — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 00:15, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

I have blocked SJ470 (indef) and the IP (2 weeks) for this clear case of vandalism/sockpuppetry. I haven't blocked Patrickdene (at least, not yet) because he hasn't done any more editing since being warned. — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 00:31, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅ on the accounts. I agree with not blocking Patrickdene, lesson learned.  Keegan (talk) 08:02, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't agree, and I have blocked Patrickdene for 2 weeks. My AGF does not stretch to overlooking deliberate planting of misinformation in several articles to prepare the way for a sock to post hoaxes, all to make himself look important. Just to confirm, there were no sleepers? JohnCD (talk) 11:03, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Correct, there were no sleepers. Keegan (talk) 03:15, 22 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Closing then. Rschen7754 03:17, 22 April 2013 (UTC)