Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rpalmquist/Archive

13 June 2012

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Both accounts haunt the same set of articles (mainly Universal translator, Closed captioning and related articles), both appear to almost entirely (in the last year) be making promotional edits to promote and it's spinout company (CEO of speechGear is a 'R. Palmquist' - worth looking at this diff ). Both make a large proportion of edits in the same 3 hour window of 2030-2330 (90%+ and 80%+ respectively). These feel socky to me, but I've never posted here before and I'd appreciate some guidence about what should happen next… Fayedizard (talk) 17:49, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

(EDIT) supplemental - this is a ducky edit where Livingat45north inserts Palmquist's name into an article (actually reverts it back I think) - and I've added User John Rendor, whose only contributions appear to be reverting any editors who remove speechgear related content (and who is also a few-edits, late-night person…)  Fayedizard (talk) 18:11, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

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 * In this case, I don't see anything problematic. They might know each other or work in the same office, but they aren't !voting or backing each others discussions up, they haven't ever edit on the same day or in any way overlap their efforts.  They aren't doing classic "abuse", not teaming up to overcome consensus or games the system.  Neither is very active or causing disruption or a reason to think they are coordinating in order to bypass any policy here.  Interesting ties, but not abusive.   Dennis Brown  -  2&cent;   &copy;  18:00, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Okaies - so would you say it would be more approprete to pop this over to COI board? Fayedizard (talk) 18:13, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
 * You could, but they do so little editing, I would be more inclined to give them the standard template for COI on the talk page. Again, if they were very active and their activities were crossing over each other regularly, it would be different, but 31 edits in 16 months isn't much for Rpalmquist.   Dennis Brown  -  2&cent;   &copy;  18:23, 13 June 2012 (UTC)