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15 April 2016

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All three accounts (the socks were created just today) are used solely to introduce pages on non-notable municipal parks in Michigan. — swpb T 14:57, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * Per this message, the three accounts are apparently three separate students in the same class working on a project together. Their page creations were ill-advised, but I don't think sock puppetry is involved. (I know that the student could have posted that on their own, but I'm going to assume good faith here.) WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 15:19, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Agree with Wikidan's evidence. We should block this IP, because a flood of terrible non-notable pages are coming in. I have posted this on the admin's noticeboard ThePlatypusofDoom (talk) 15:22, 15 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Just seen the "park creep" at page patrol and prodded 3 or 4 of them. I guess the notice at Administrators%27_noticeboard will be moved to AN/I. All those "parks" articles have the same pattern (times of opening, rules, GPS coordinates); but it is probably meatpuppets rather than sockpuppets, see the following diff's edit summary:  . (Even if IPs from the same school will probably be in the same range.) Tigraan Click here to contact me 15:28, 15 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Can someone move the admin noticeboard section about this to AN/I? ThePlatypusofDoom (talk) 15:31, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't know the protocol, but would it be possible to remove the sock/master tags from the user talk pages? Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:22, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * This does not appear to be a case of sockpuppetry, but rather students who are working on a project together. (See here) I would recommend that someone advises the students on our policies and procedures. Perhaps it might be a good idea to ask assistance from the Wiki Education Foundation? Mike V • Talk 15:38, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I've removed the tags from the accounts listed here. If there are more, you're welcome to do so or you can ping me again and I'll gladly take care of it. Mike V • Talk 16:28, 15 April 2016 (UTC)