Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/RomneyGingrich12/Archive

Report date July 4 2009, 07:31 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

This user has made a large number of edits to John Oxendine, generally scrubbing it of negative information and inserting puffery. She also made an edit to Karen Handel that has attracted some local media coverage. For context, Oxendine and Handel are opponents in Georgia's gubernatorial race.
 * Evidence submitted by Emufarmers

There are allegations (unsubstantiated, from what I can tell) that RomneyGingrich12 is somebody editing from a state computer, so I am requesting a CheckUser to at least determine whether that is the case. We also need to see whether she has committed BLP violations from other accounts or as an IP. Beyond that, somebody is going to need to go through her contributions carefully; it looks like she's done a fair bit that needs undoing. —Emufarmers(T/C) 07:31, 4 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by —Emufarmers(T/C) 07:31, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * I think there is grounds here for a checkuser based on the publicized nature of the editing and BLP concerns.  MBisanz  talk 07:44, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

No state IPs detected, just edits from a major local ISP. I have blocked their current IP, which was also used and warned for similar edits to John Oxendine, but no other accounts were detected. Dominic·t 08:28, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Per CU results. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 10:00, 4 July 2009 (UTC)