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14 January 2014

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Since 2011, both Schoolglutton and Nardopolo have been single purpose accounts. Schoolglutton has added links to the website of The Center for Election Science and created Unified Primary (also see ), which contains several links to the webpage I mentioned earlier and is within the POV of the organization linked to. An hour after the page was created, the Nardopolo account was created and made its first edit to Unified Primary; the account has only edited Unified Primary and Articles for deletion/Unified Primary since. Guerillero &#124;  My Talk  06:11, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

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This is my one and only Wikipedia account. Although I have been a user of the encyclopedia for many years, I only recently have had the occasion to edit it, on a topic with which I have some familiarity. I made a clear declaration of interest in that case and edited in response to DGG's request for more detail on Unified Primary's AfD page. Thank you for your prompt resolution of this investigation.Nardopolo (talk) 06:52, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

To further clarify regarding accusations of both sockpuppetry and now the scent of meatpuppetry below: I was not in any way recruited into the AfD discussion on Unified Primary by any other user - I found my way there myself from the very large message box at the top of the page that describes an effort that I have an obvious and declared interest in. The edit history of the AfD and Unified Primary support this, alongside the statement above. Although this is my first time editing Wikipedia, I have been a long time user of the system and did my best to familiarize myself with relevant policy regarding conflicts of interest, stated interest, non-controversial editing, notability guidelines and sock/meatpuppetry, all of which I believe I have abided by. Thank you for your prompt resolution of this investigation.Nardopolo (talk) 18:02, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

After looking up what sockpuppetry is, I can tell you I only have one Wikipedia account. I've only made edits on a handful of articles and this was my first time actually creating an article. I have a background in contraceptive technology as well as voting theory and have stuck to those topics since I created an account in 2007. Admittedly, I'm not a Wikipedia veteran as far as experience, but I know not to create multiple accounts. Further, I was the original author on the article and did not request any assistance. I hope that you find this addresses your concerns. schoolglutton (talk) 23:20, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

In so far as both, schoolglutton and Nardopolo, voted at Articles for deletion/Unified Primary, it would be very interesting to know whether these sockpuppetry suspicions are true. Markus Schulze 20:23, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

There was another user that also voted to keep the article. If your evidence is merely that we both voted to keep the article, I wonder why you didn't include that user as well. schoolglutton (talk) 21:24, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Not exactly on the account creation: Special:CentralAuth/Nardopolo tells me it was created December 31, while the page in question was created the 5th. I'm not sure about endorsing this: smells more like meatpuppetry to me, but will let another clerk give an opinion. --Rschen7754 10:26, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
 * - Bit of a borderline call, but I find it interesting that the second account was created 4 days before the first one created the new article, and they somehow manage to link up once the article is created. Also noting that the first account had not edited for several months before then. Bit too coincidental. Rschen7754 02:17, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
 * ❌, from a technical point of view. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:17, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Closing; may be meatpuppetry, but that can be handled outside SPI. Rschen7754 17:44, 21 January 2014 (UTC)