Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tiparrish/Archive

15 June 2012

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See the AFD here Articles_for_deletion/Janie_Settles_Johnson.Both the accounts are sharing the same type of comments to save the article.These accounts have no other edits outside this AFD.Thus, They are possibly created account just to keep the article by the article creator.The Sock puppeteer is willing to keep the article as a memorial, Thus possibly using multiple accounts to make community change their opinion. Max Viwe &#124;  Viwe The Max  19:49, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

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 * I suspected this too, although I thought the two newbies might be meatpuppets (friends recruited to join Wikipedia for the sole purpose of voting in this AfD) instead of actual sockpuppets. Tiparrish is fairly new to Wikipedia and he may not realize that this is frowned upon. --MelanieN (talk) 23:32, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
 * P.S. Somebody needs to notify Tiparrish about this investigation. It doesn't look like that has been done yet. --MelanieN (talk) 23:36, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
 * There, I notified him. --MelanieN (talk) 23:43, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
 * For the record, notification of WP:SPI investigations is not mandatory, and is left to the discretion of the reporting party. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  12:23, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
 * This is an insulting and false accusation which can distort my Internet creditably. Therefore, I have requested my account and if possible any associated contributions to be removed.   I have no affiliation with the Kork73 or Oracle1968 accounts. The Johnson article has been removed, leaving me with a different perspective of Wikipedia and how the site's "standards" are inconsistently interpreted and enforced.--Tiparrish (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 14:23, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * This could be meatpuppetry, but the fact that there are only 3 contributions among the two puppets makes it difficult to definitively link them with a high enough degree of confidence. The AFD is over and it didn't go their way, so I'm inclined to take a wait and see approach.  No prejudice against filing future cases if all three are seen in the same place again.  Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  12:39, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
 * This looks more like meatpuppetry to me. One of the !voters at the AfD, who signed as Tiparrish, is apparently a Facebook friend with Tiparrish, and it wouldn't surprise me if the others were similarly connected. Per Dennis Brown, I'm closing. Feel free to open another case if this behavior resumes. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 21:17, 19 June 2012 (UTC)