Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Stormy102/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Both are single-purpose accounts created to add references to an article to stave off an AfD. Similar edit summaries. If these two were different editors, at least some edits would overlap? Because right now it looks like one of them made a couple of edits, logged into the other account, made more edits, and so on. w umbolo  ^^^  19:27, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' Myself and Cowsay256 are both winners from the Cyber Centurion competition. We have noticed that the page has been marked for deletion, so we are working to ensure that it contains citation content from across the internet and will not be deleted. I'm sure that checking the IPs will show that we are from different villages/cities.

Just to confirm, I and Stormy102 both know each other and are in contact; hence the similar edit histories, editing times and lack of overlap. It's understandable that we might be flagged for sockpuppetry - after all, these are the telling signs. However, I assure you that the similarly structured usernames are a genuine coincidence (I only this realised now). It's just the unfortunate process through which we edited this page that this has occurred. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cowsay256 (talk • contribs) 20:03, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

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. The two users may be editing from different towns, but they must be fairly close together because the location comes up the same for both. Geolocation is not that precise. They are using almost the same user agents: the same OS and the same browser except one is using a slightly more updated version of the browser. Also, the OS and browser are very common. They are using different ISPs. If they are two people as claimed, they are still violating policy because it's clear meat puppetry. However, assuming still that they are two people, I'm not sure where the abuse is. says they are adding "references to an article to stave off an AfD." If they improve the article so it satisfies WP:GNG, that's a good thing.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:24, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Nothing more to do here. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:19, 3 October 2018 (UTC)