Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shellievalencia/Archive

15 November 2012

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I came across the AfD for Carlo Dizon. The article was tagged for notability, but there is also enough here to suggest a hoax. I noticed that one user (Philromania) had removed the AfD template and initially went to just warn the user about removing templates. That the user has been warned for removing speedy templates got me to looking into the article's history. I saw that another user has also been editing the page (Shellievalencia) and seems to be working on the same articles as Philromania. Given that the entry is potentially a hoax and given that Philromania's account was created so recently, there is enough here to make me wonder if this is a sockpuppet. The big issue here is that this might be a second account to stay under the radar and create mischief, as Philromania created the article Errold John Dizon, which was deleted as a hoax. If they are the same person, this should be looked into and potentially dealt with if it is a case of one person looking to add hoaxes onto Wikipedia. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 18:51, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I also want to add that the user Shellievalencia is re-adding Carlo Dizon to the mainspace even after he's been deleted as a hoax, so a block would probably be necessary. I also wanted to mention that an IP has joined in on the current article's talk page claiming to be a coworker, so I've added the IP here.
 * Additional: Shellievalencia is claiming to be an editor for Lifestyle Asia and Esquire, and assuming that her screen name is her real name, there is nothing on either website to support these claims. This is a pretty blatant case of someone using Wikipedia to vandalize and well, outright lie about themselves and others.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 07:13, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * Comment Since I don't believe Tokyogirl saw the Errold John Dizon page before it was deleted, I thought it might be useful to add some evidence based on similarities between the two articles: first and foremost, the Carlo article says that he has a brother named Errold; furthermore, though, both "Carlo" and "Errold" are said to be racecar drivers, both are Filipino, both are said to be models, both are said to work in real estate (and in both cases "real estate" is somewhat treated as if it were a corporation), and both are said to own shares of San Miguel Corporation stock. Their intros have the same tone (down to the parenthetical "(X y/o)").  I have no clue why someone would make up all of these things, but they're both clear hoaxes, and, I contend, clear sockpuppetry. — Francophonie&#38;Androphilie  (Je vous invite à me parler ) 19:56, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

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Looks like pretty clear sockpuppetry, and the IP is certainly the same person as at least one of the two accounts. However, with or without sockpuppetry, we have two vandalism only accounts, so they are both blocked indefinitely, and the IP is blocked for a while. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:12, 16 November 2012 (UTC)