Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Thomsonobrien/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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A cluster of users concerned exclusively with pushing independent local filmmakers from Sudbury, Ontario and their films into Wikipedia without actually showing any strong evidence that any of them actually pass WP:NFILM or WP:CREATIVE. The more extreme overlap is between George.Kaplan and RogerOThornhill1959, the latter of whom is a new user who recreated and submitted Draft:Beautiful Accidents (a draft very nearly identical to the deleted George.Kaplan creation Beautiful Accidents) several weeks after the first iteration flunked an AFD and went away — but while Thomsonobrien is generally more concerned with the films of John Alden Milne than the films of B.P. Paquette it's worth remembering that Milne and Paquette are colleagues, such that even if Thomsonobrien isn't a literal sockpuppeteer of the other usernames there could still be some coordinated meatpuppetry going on. They've also both worked with a filmmaker named David Joseph Anselmo, potentially tying this into the User:Davidjosephanselmo SPI of last year, though that user got editblocked for completely different reasons. One or more of them may also be User:Johnaldenmilne; although that account's too stale to investigate (hasn't edited Wikipedia since 2009) it should still be mentioned just for the record. Bearcat (talk) 02:39, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

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Thomsonobrien and RogerOThornhill1959 are. George.Kaplan is .--Bbb23 (talk) 13:47, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
 * there is not enough evidence here to establish a block for sockpuppetry, and all but one of the accounts have stopped editing. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:56, 4 August 2018 (UTC)