Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Thegarty/Archive

19 April 2014

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I'm writing here about concerns of potential sockpuppeting at the AfD for Ready Flowers. I wouldn't have opened this, except for the article's talk page has several people expressing concerns that User:FloristExpert is a sock of User:Thegarty. I'm aware that FloristExpert is stale, but some confirmation of it potentially being the same user would be helpful. The article had a history of some contentious editing and I thought that since most of the people editing the article had sort of scattered to the winds and/or stopped editing, that we wouldn't have to worry about this at the AfD, but we've had semi-random IP users come in to vote "keep". Considering that Thegarty made this edit on a similar IP userpage, I think that it'd be worth checking into just to avoid any further potential socking at the AfD, as I really don't want it to turn into the mess that the article's talk page turned into. It'd be better to nip this in the bud now, if possible. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   06:52, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't think that a checkuser is necessary at this point, as we just have the two IPs and any other IPs would likely be too stale from the talk page. The only account I can see that was suspected of being a sock was FloristExpert. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   06:58, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

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RE : IP 124.171.209.243, I am not a "sockpuppet", nor am I Thegarty, nor am I a fan of Ready Flowers. I haven't been here for a couple of years and my comment that the company is "notable by being infamous", seems logical to me. If this posting comes up different to 124.171.209.243, that is because my service provider has changed it, as often happens 124.150.93.216 (talk)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Both accounts are extremely stale and are likely the same user given editing area. Both IPs are the same and I've blocked both for 3 days. Whether they are related to the accounts it's likely as well given the edit Thegarty made to an IP in the same range (in presented evidence). Closing now. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 14:30, 20 April 2014 (UTC)