Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Stadleyrc/Archive

14 October 2012

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This is an odd one. These are all SPAs. Stadleyrc registered on 15 Jun 2011 and created an article Ruben Canelo about a surgeon; has not edited since 22 Jun 2011.

Rbncnl registered on 28 Jun 2012 and edited the article, introducing the implausible title "Lord Professor Ruben Canelo of Stadley", later altered to "Studley". On 29 Aug Rbncnl uploaded four images to Commons, claiming them as "own work".

On 27 Sep the article was taken to AfD at Articles for deletion/Ruben Canelo and deleted on 7 Oct, the conclusion being that, while the "Lord of Studley" bit was a bad joke, Prof. Canelo was real but did not meet WP:PROF.

On 12 Oct, Rbncl attempted to blank the AfD page, and complained to the closing admin. Within two hours, Stnmrtn was created and next day posted Lord Professor Ruben Canelo of Studley.

Stnmrtn says on my talk page that "the Lord title is from a Lordship of the minor [sic] of Studley. Professor Canelo got the right to use this title according to the papers sent to him from the company". Note for non-Brits: "Lordships of the manor" do exist, some have vestigial legal significance, and both real and bogus ones are bought and sold; but they are not a part of the formal honours system, and anyone who tried to use one as a title in real life would be ridiculed. Even with a real peerage, the form would be "Professor Lord X", not "Lord Professor X."

I don't know what to make of all this. The usernames "Stadleyrc" and "Rbncnl" seem to be intended to imply the man himself, with the first "Stadley" version of his "title". CU requested to try to clarify what is going on. JohnCD (talk) 11:00, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

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 * I note that the same new user, Stnmrtn, also uploaded two new pages at Wikimedia Commons on 13 October, titled "Lord Professor Ruben Canelo of Studley.jpg" and "Lord Professor Ruben Canelo of Studley.1.jpg". As noted above, user Rbncnl had previously uploaded four images of Ruben Canelo; one of them was titled with the "Lord Professor" terminology, but I was able to get it renamed to "Ruben Canelo" and the redirect deleted. The six images are here: . We might want to alert the folks at Wikimedia Commons that these accounts are suspect, and they might want to check into the claim of "own work" for the previous uploads. I'm not familiar enough with the systems at Wikimedia Commons to know how to tag things for investigation. --MelanieN (talk) 14:15, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
. However, from the deleted contributions it is apparent these accounts have the same operator. I am blocking all three, based on behavioural evidence alone. AGK [•] 23:05, 14 October 2012 (UTC)