Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Safiasouthey/Archive

22 December 2012

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All are SPAs that have only edited the article Adeena Karasick or created links to that article. With one user name even being the same as the article in question, all have been engaging in often blatant promotion of the subject, very likely in violation of WP:COI. Compare the original version with the most recent puffery added by Adeenakarasick. When Adeenakarasick was warned of not only COI violations but also user name violations by Voceditenore (who has worked hard to clean up this article), within a couple of hours a new account appears, FieraMichelle, that comes in to defend the article on the talk page. All this is likely a violation of WP:ILLEGIT by both creating an illusion of support, contributing to the same page with multiple accounts, and posing as a neutral commentator. Michitaro (talk) 20:07, 22 December 2012 (UTC) Michitaro (talk) 20:07, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * At Talk:Adeena Karasick, User:Adeenakarasick explicitly denied having any connection to the subject of the article, hence the username warning I left on her talk page . Said user also claimed the article's author was "Safia Southey", and that that person was "an unrelated party". The latter assertion is not true. Southey has a very close connection to Karasick which I will not make explicit to avoid outing. The appearance of User:FieraMichelle (note that "Michelle" is Karasick's middle name), may have been a reaction to the username warning, and instead of asking for a name change, the user simply registered yet another account. However, she tried to present herself on the talk page as a neutral observer with no relation to the Adeenakarasick account. From the style of the edits and formatting, all three are almost certainly the same user or are two users jointly editing from these accounts. Voceditenore (talk) 11:33, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I've also added 74.64.105.67, to the list, another SPA up to the same shenanigans in May 2012, at the time Safiasouthey was editing. The only other user to have added content to this article is Rkasher, probably not the same user as the other 3, but clearly personally connected to Karasick, again no specifics per WP:OUTING. Voceditenore (talk) 11:52, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * While this could be meatpuppetry, there are several behavioral links that make me think otherwise, particularly between the two named socks. IPs are stale.  Closing. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  Join WER 16:11, 27 December 2012 (UTC)