Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Phan Ni Mai/Archive

05 August 2012

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Two accounts, created ten minutes apart, both edit on the same day 1st August; make benign edits. Stop for 4 days, then edit war on a single article with 16 reverts Special:Contributions/Madifrop Special:Contributions/Phan_Ni_Mai. Seems like someone messing around with multiple accounts. IRWolfie- (talk) 19:51, 5 August 2012

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Looks more like two kids (apparently, "Jerry" and "Madison") using Wikipedia as some kind of playground. A 24h block seems to have stopped the warring, and a longer block is a few clicks away should they try something like that again. Jafeluv (talk) 07:31, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * This is clearly either sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry, and it doesn't matter in the least which it is. It is perfectly clear that the person/people involved registered two accounts, and then did what it took to become autoconfirmed (do ten or so trivial edits and wait four days). It is clear that the only purpose of these accounts was to carry out a disruptive move war and edit war. They are vandalism-only accounts, and I shall block them indefinitely. It is true that they have not yet returned to editing since the temporary block, but there is no evidence that they intend to do anything constructive, and no realistic chance that leaving them unblocked will be any advantage to the project. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:36, 7 August 2012 (UTC)