Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Robbo7089/Archive

Evidence submitted by Uncle Dick
User appears to have created a sockpuppet (or meatpuppet) to evade new article review process on IFF (Community Development Financial Institution) (see here). User admits to meatpuppetry here. User is not overtly disruptive, however, a violation of WP:SOCK seems to have taken place. Uncle Dick (talk) 18:12, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
 * See also this diff requesting feedback on the newly created article and this diff one minute later correcting the entry. Also note no intermediate edits by Robbo7089 between 09:35 and 10:15 when all of Hankscorpio9's edits took place. Uncle Dick (talk) 18:35, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

It's not sockpuppetry, it's a different user entirely. When I attempted to make a wikipedia page, it said someone else had to review it. So I asked someone else to review it. Is that a crime? I was doing exactly what wikipedia said to do. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Robbo7089 (talk • contribs) 18:22, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Robbo and/or Hank, do you two know each other personally? I suppose I can understand the confusion here, but when we say we want an article to be reviewed, we mean for an experienced editor to do the review. Your friend (if that is the case) isn't the best for that, because they'll be naturally predisposed to support your article. It sets up what we call "meatpuppetry" - not sockpuppetry, since you're different people, but the effect is essentially the same (there's just some actual "meat" to the supposed "sock", hence the odd name). Hers fold  (t/a/c) 16:00, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Users warned to not engage in such behavior, but it appears to be a case where "meatpuppetry" occured primarily out of ignorance of policies. NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 02:38, 25 September 2010 (UTC)