Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Poprobeson/Archive

25 November 2011

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All accounts were created in quick succession between November 21 and 25th, 2011. They have only been used to edit the Lumbee article, with the consistent goal of discrediting Lumbee claims of Native ancestry. The user names are all vaguely related to the SE region. Uyvsdi (talk) 19:42, 25 November 2011 (UTC) Uyvsdi (talk) 19:42, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

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Looks like WP:DUCK to me. WilliamH (talk) 07:57, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged all the socks per WP:DUCK. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:01, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

07 December 2011

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Only edited Lumbee article, made extremely similar edits to other User:Poprobeson sockpuppet, same name format (two combined words, vaguely Eastern Native American in subject). Uyvsdi (talk) 07:08, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * ✅ Wampumlady. I indeffed for abuse.  AGK   [• ]  11:52, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

30 August 2012

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I believe User:CherokeeHistorian is a new sockpuppet of User:Poprobeson, since the account has only been used to make unsourced edits to the Lumbee article to discredit their Native American heritage, consistent with the previous sockpuppets. All the names have been Cherokee-esque and the format of the username is the same, i.e. two combined words with the second word capitalized. Uyvsdi (talk) 08:16, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  20:03, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
 * The other accounts are all stale for checkuser purposes, so this will have to be determined on behavioural evidence. Looking at CherokeeHistorian's only edit, I agree that the POV and writing style look similar. Not sure I would consider that sufficient evidence for a WP:DUCK case on its own, though. Jafeluv (talk) 12:29, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Close as no action taken at this time. One edit is too sparse to draw a clear conclusion. If there is new evidence of socking please refile.

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Just like the previously discovered socks SittingDeer, Cherokeeblood, MntBuffalo, and CherokeeHistorian, this SPA has only been used to make unsourced edits to the Lumbee article to discredit their Native American heritage. ,, and GnomeSweetGnome (talk) 19:42, 15 December 2017 (UTC) GnomeSweetGnome (talk) 19:42, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

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 * - It's been a long time since this master was active, and CherokeeHistorian was not actually determined to be a sock of Poprobeson. I think WP:AGF very much applies here. Is there anything else to suggest that these users are connected? If there's not, I'm inclined to close without action. Best, Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 17:11, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Closing on the basis of insufficient evidence to suggest a link, especially to a case which was last active over five years ago. Best, Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 19:08, 2 January 2018 (UTC)