Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Squinge1/Archive

31 December 2014

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I found Truck driving schools in the United States, which was a mess of all sorts of unlinked non-notable driving schools and basically just being used as a company directory - see this version (it's up for deletion now so it might be gone by the time you read this). I cleaned out all the unlinked entries, added the usual request to keep the list to entries that have Wikipedia articles, and then an apparent impersonator by the name of popped up and removed a further entry - they're since blocked and have not responded on their talk page. Then a new account was created and reinstated the deleted entries. I reverted and gave the new user the appropriate policies, that Wikipedia is not a directory etc (and noted them on the article talk page). Then we had another new account which reinstated all the non-notable entries again (and with an edit summary of "Wikipedia is not for helping people? Really? No wonder they have to beg for money", it suggests they're not a genuine newcomer). With the similar format names (ie name and number), things are looking a bit suspicious to me and I suspect all three accounts are the same person doing a bit of trolling. Squinge (talk) 11:50, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to each other, although realistically  related to Squinge1. However, that does not factor in behavior. NativeForeigner Talk 22:29, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
 * This is where I lament the inadequacy of our templates. I've indeffed the two puppets. I've reblocked the master so there's a link to this SPI in the block log. No tags for any accounts. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:47, 1 January 2015 (UTC)