Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Prspiring/Archive

Report date 18:57, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Totnesmartin (talk)

Users editing solely to enter refrences to in various articles - and in fact to create that article. Diffs (although all three sets of contribs are related to the puppetry): 82.32.186.236: Nailsea school, admits to being prspiring.
 * Prspiring - PS-related edits to Nailsea school, Bristol City FC and Paul Spiring.
 * TedSherell - created Paul Spiring article, adds PS related material to Tom Høyem, Bristol City FC and Ipplepen
 * 77.3.76.142 - 24 edits to PS, plus PS-related edits to Reuben Spiring and Nailsea school
 * 77.3.89.175:Admits to being PS here. Added PS to list of educators here, more PS-related edits to Nailsea school, Tom Høyem, Bristol City and 24 edits to PS article

psrspiring has also made edits to Paul Spiring's areas of interest, eg Joseph Merrick. However these are solely a conflict of interest issue and my puny earthling brain can't do two things at once.

Apologies for the apparent conflict of interests. I am a new user and I am still trying to familiarise myself with the Wikipedia protocols and systems. The edit to the page on Paul Spiring was limited to the upload of a photograph where I hold the copyright. I thought that this would be a useful addition. However, I am happy to remove the item if it constitutes a conflict of interests. Your comments are appreciated and I shall consult the guidance and instruction notes more carefully before making future contributions. User:prspiring
 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Looking at Paul Spiring, the subject appears to be notable, or there is at least an assertion of notability. The editor(s) could be a newbie who recently registered an account and might forget to login. This might be two people who work together. Has anybody tried counseling them? The and  templates might be helpful, as well as a friendly word on their talk page. We should never start out by blocking somebody until we have first tried to make them aware of our standards of behavior. Jehochman Talk 02:55, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

imported from Suspected sock puppets/Prspiring -- lucasbfr  talk 22:00, 16 January 2009 (UTC) There is some lack of clarity here. Clearly the alleged master has edited whilst logged out. It is less clear whether the second account is also him. There is no clear evidence, however, that anybody engaged in editing with multiple accounts with malicious intent. I think we put this down to a new editor getting it wrong, and move on. Mayalld (talk) 11:48, 25 February 2009 (UTC) Mayalld (talk) 11:48, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * bot missed Mayalld (talk) 15:30, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions