Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Proclus27/Archive

03 July 2012

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I'm filing this inspired by User:Biruitorul and an ANI thread he started. All four accounts sprang into being at the same time (I've listed them in order of appearance) and have one interest: creating and linking Romanian politicians to a recent plagiarism scandal. For my taste, there is not enough yet to block as ducks, but you'll note, I hope, that this is too much of a coincidence. I'd like a CU to give insight, as quickly as possible since this is also a BLP matter involving people whose reputation may be smeared on Wikipedia. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 20:20, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' I agree with Drmies above. The pages in question are Ioan Mang, Corina Dumitrescu and Mircea Beuran, with a few edits to German politicians promoting links to plagiarism issues. As mentioned above, a CU will help link these accounts together, and we should be sure of what's going on given the BLP status of the articles. There could be other socks as well, creating similar articles that we just haven't noticed. Regards, MacMedtalk stalk 22:38, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

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The quick successive nature of the accounts, the overlap of usernames (Caragiale was accused of plagiarism), and the style of their creations such as with scant or non-existent edit summaries and URLish references very much gave me the impression that there is more to this than meets the eye, so I checked. The master is. The following are his ✅ socks: WilliamH (talk) 02:04, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged the lot. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  02:37, 4 July 2012 (UTC)