Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sandom/Archive

18 June 2013

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The talk page history of J. G. Sandom is full of long rants from the subject of the article, based on editors in Wikipedia being anonymous and other things (See the last paragraph of this diff). Interestingly, this last paragraph from Rovergirl mentions "I work in publishing and run a horse farm and, like you, would like to stay anonymous." which remains an interesting thing to say for someone uninvolved here.

The history of trying to add the relevant puff is present in both the cases (See 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 from Rovergirl and 1, 2 from Sandom) See also, 1, 2 and 3 from Review Clue. Of additional interest is this from Jeff Einstein, who claims to be the business partner of Sandom.

Overall, this looks like a definite WP:DUCK case for a CU to check for socking between these, and any other accounts. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 01:54, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

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 * I don't think there's any need for CU here - multiple individuals seems a more likely explanation. The other accounts have kind of subsided activity anyway, so there's not really much to do here. WilliamH (talk) 16:05, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 03:50, 27 June 2013 (UTC)