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Suspected sockpuppets



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Today in an AfD, new user DarrylOwens, posted a keep !vote as their first (and thus far only) edit to Wikipedia. Hours later, new user NormaMarkam, again in their first edit to Wikipedia, posted a comment to the AfD, which they did not sign with four tildes, but instead copied the DarryOwens signature from the previous post.  They claim this was a newbie mistake, but at a minimum we seem to have new account meat puppetry going on, and I suspect sock puppetry. These accounts were both created within hours of, the primary contributer to the page under AfD, having their account blocked for the use of an apparent organizational/business name. While it would not be sock puppetry for them to create a new account, indeed, they are directed to do so, were they to join a discussion of the fate of a page they heavily edited under a different username without declaring their common identity it would seem to violate the intent of banning sock/meat puppetry. Agricolae (talk) 20:32, 1 June 2017 (UTC) Agricolae (talk) 20:32, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:43, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets


Three pieces of evidence in this DUCK case. One is the user recreated Lester W Lambert using identical text from the first version of this article Wesley Lambert. A non-sock clicking edit to keep a version on his computer is unlikely. Other pieces of evidence are behavioural available via email. All evidence together should be plenty for a CU. I already blocked this user and am filing here because user claims to be someone else. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:34, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

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Quietlygrateful and (a zero-edit account) are ✅ from each other and  to the master. I've blocked the unblocked account. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:19, 16 June 2017 (UTC)