Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Submitmaster/Archive

05 November 2012

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In Articles for deletion/SJ Seymour Group, IP supported Submitmaster with general arguments to keep the article; this may be a case of WP:AGF in that it's not at all clear this action was intended to deceive. But later in the discussion, new user Dedeepyareddy entered a keep !vote using language strongly resembling that of Submitmaster in an apparent attempt to sway consensus. Note: I nominated the article for deletion. Batard0 (talk) 13:50, 5 November 2012 (UTC)


 * SPI is now closed but I wanted to quickly concur with Batard0 and offer my thanks to him for bringing this here - this sort of COI sock-puppetry seems to be getting worse and more frequent. Maybe it's just my imagination. As always, Dennis Brown, thanks for taking a look and for giving your thoughts. Much appreciated. Cheers, Stalwart 111  (talk) 22:20, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * It could be socking, or it could be meatpuppetry, but the AFD is closed with a delete. Likely, we won't see them again.  It is just really hard to tell without a CU based on one edit, and I hesitate to ask for CU based on one edit.  Closing with no prejudice to reopen if they edit again and we are better able to define the link. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 21:22, 5 November 2012 (UTC)