Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Swisemanpr/Archive

28 December 2011

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On Lauren Elaine, article started by the SwisemanPR account above. When I mentioned that they had a conflict of interest, the SwisemanPR account ceased editing and FashionFanCA took over editing of the article. FashionFanCA replied on the talkpage here as well on the AFD that they were unconnected with the PR firm, but just someone 'in the know'. If they hadn't made that assertion, I was going to let them go unchallenged (since SwisemanPR was correct, the article was reasonably neutral) assuming it was them deciding that having PR in their name was against our username guidelines and just creating a new account. Since they are making that assertion, I am requesting a checkuser to verify their claim that they are not connected with SwisemanPR. As of yet, the sock and the master haven't done anything that would signal blocking...tho perhaps if they are the same person we can just close the PR account as unintended socking. Thanks. Syrthiss (talk) 21:52, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * - Sure, let's see if they jumped ship. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 22:24, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
 * - Syrthiss said it best above. "As of yet, the sock and the master haven't done anything that would signal blocking...tho perhaps if they are the same person we can just close the PR account as unintended socking." If the issue here is that the "master" account has a conflict of interest, then block it as such. Otherwise, it would appear that they almost did what they were requested to do; change their username to be in compliance with our username policy and attempt to move away from appearing to have a conflict of interest. That said, an administrator can still block the account for having a conflict of interest, but simply put that has nothing to do with SPI. Also, there has been zero editing overlap by these two accounts. I'm not going to use CheckUser to confirm or deny if the accounts in question belong to a PR firm. This can easily be handled without the use of digging into private data (CheckUser). Tiptoety  talk 23:11, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
 * These accounts have gone stale since this case was opened, so I'm closing. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:06, 5 January 2012 (UTC)