Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shinywxn/Archive

25 March 2016

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Appears to have been associated with articles in the past, such as the deleted article Eurasian science village. Additionally, Amis88may re-added promotional content onto the page Beini Da multiple times [here] and [here] after Shinywxn was warned twice regarding adding promotional content to Wikipedia [here] and posted the same content onto the article during article creation [here]. Keeping in mind the previous interactions and the addition of the same promotional content, the two accounts are likely from the same person and are abusively used because they both are adding promotional content to the same page (while appearing to be different users), a violation of the Wikipedia alt account policy. Editing appears to have been extremely close together in time, suggesting that the user accounts are connected and not just coincidentally involved in the same page. Appable (talk) 06:52, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Edit: the page was deleted by an administrator under G11, but the diffs should still be valid if accessible. Appable (talk) 06:55, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Edit 2: the page was recreated. It'll probably be recreated/deleted a few times. The first creation of the article, I believe, was where the suspected sockpuppetry occurred. Appable (talk) 07:02, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * For whatever it may be worth Amis88may appears to be the senior account 12 March vs Shinywxn = 24 March. —teb728 t c 07:09, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh, sorry! Is there anything I can do to fix that? I'm entirely new and slightly confused with this side of Wikipedia, so... Appable (talk) 07:10, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
 * No problem. We'll fix that after we decide about the connection.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  13:54, 25 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Ah, I'm glad this was filed. The newer account "Shinywxn" is working on Eurasian Science Village in their userspace. A similar article by the older account was rejected. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 10:17, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Response by "Amis88may" here --Lemongirl942 (talk) 10:18, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * - Please, compare those two accounts.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  13:54, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
 * The two accounts are the same individual based on geolocation (same city), though it could also be WP:MEAT.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  22:54, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm satisfied this is a case of two separate people, inexperienced with Wikipedia, intending to edit collaboratively, but not trying to be deceptive about it. They've been cautioned about edit warring, COI, and several other policies, and neither has made any edits for over two weeks — possibly meaning they've given up trying to create this particular article.  In any case, I don't see sockpuppetry here — and although there might possibly be a case for meatpuppetry, I think such a case is too thin to pursue.  So I'm going to close this SPI without taking any action.  If these two show up again and engage in POV / COI / edit-warring behaviour again, they may well be deserving of blocks for that (but probably not for sock/meat activity).  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 05:52, 12 April 2016 (UTC)