Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Robomod/Archive

01 April 2014

 * Suspected sockpuppets

As discussed at Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents, Robomod has added many references and external links to fashionmodeldirectory.com, which some regard as spam. Checking if many other users had added such refs and links, I quickly found one that showed familiar signs of one person editing with two accounts in back-to-back sessions. The examples I have found are very stale. I raise them now because I challenged Robomod at ANI so should present what evidence I have for confirmation or rebuttal, and because if I am right then it might be wise to check for other, live, accounts.
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 * 9 September 2008: Robomod 21:06 - 21:52 (14 edits)[], RiverFattieRCool 21:55 - 22:00 (3 edits)[] 


 * 12 September 2008: Robomod 21:33 - 22:46 (17), RiverFattieRCool 23:28 - 00:00 (15)


 * 14 September 2008: Robomod 19:43 - 20:36 (13), RiverFattieCool 02:16 (1), 19:04 (1), 21:44 - 22:10 (14)


 * Robomod edited often until 6 October 2008, then just twice more in 2008.


 * RiverFattieCool edited often for the remainder of 2008 and through to 18 August 2009, then rarely (averaging about once a month).


 * Robomod started editing often again on 9 September 2009.

The accounts do differ in that Robomod generally makes single edits to many articles, adding links to FMD using a specialised template (for example [], marked as minor, almost as if a robot, while RiverFattieCool would make blocks of edits to a single article (for example []). NebY (talk) 17:36, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

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Please dear administrators and SysOps, do whatever that finishes this witch-hunt. I am not a sock-puppet or whatever that is. I will never ever edit on Wikipedia anyway! This is all too much for me. Thanks and goodbye. But before I leave, I want the proof that I am the users that this accuser has brought up and is causing me to feel like this , just by trying to contribute. Once you have investigated in this, and you will see that all is wrong, I ask for an apology for all that happened today! Incredible! ► robomod 18:37, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

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 * I don't see anything here that is more than circumstantial evidence. Closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 23:54, 1 April 2014 (UTC)