Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/PaulRoades/Archive

29 December 2010

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The edit history of both users shows that both accounts were created with the intention of supporting the article Daniel Kine, currently nominated for deletion under WP:NOTE and WP:AUTHOR. Grand High Poobah of Western Bastardia (talk) 20:04, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

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 * As the nominator this is highly unnecessary, its so WP:DUCK. The two accounts are not being used to manipulate consensus. It appears to publisher upset the indivdual is unfamialr with policies protesting such deletion. This is not malicious use of account and is better dealt with dialogue than WP:SPI The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 20:29, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

One of the users admitted to meatpuppetry on my talk page. I agree, though, this is probably not a big deal. I just like to nip things in the bud. I went ahead and informed them of the potential consequences of such an action in the future. Grand High Poobah of Western Bastardia (talk) 20:37, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * A single employee taking care of something for the boss is different than getting a dozen of such employees to create accounts and influence a discussion. The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 21:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * There's no overlap in the edits of the accounts, and I'm getting the sense that they're two different people based on behavior. This could be meatpuppeting, or perhaps one account was abandoned. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 20:30, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * That what I am thinking as well and this whole thing is WP:BITEY The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 20:31, 29 December 2010 (UTC)


 * No action at this time. Nakon  02:40, 30 December 2010 (UTC)