Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Usarid/Archive

24 March 2014

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All of these accounts are single-purpose accounts that have caused a keep spree at Articles for deletion/RESTful API Modeling Language. Some of them have made duplicate !votes. They all share the idiosyncrasy of writing a bolded "Keep:" with a colon (although this may not be important). Some have more-or-less substantial contributions, others only have one edit (to the discussion). Interestingly, this edit by is the user's first addition to the discussion; however, they say, "As I mentioned above...", giving the impression that they may have written some of the arguments made prior to their entry. Given the amount of accounts and the fact that some have prior edits, I think CheckUser is necessary to either confirm or dispel the possibility of sock puppetry here. Mz7 (talk) 02:39, 24 March 2014 (UTC)


 * I've struck a piece of evidence. I think it was hastily added and isn't actually a red flag for sock puppetry per response on my talk page. Mz7 (talk) 02:59, 24 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Thank you Mz7 (talk) I very much appreciate you looking at this again. Crines (talk) 03:14, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Relevant diffs at Articles for deletion/RESTful API Modeling Language are: --Mz7 (talk) 15:30, 24 March 2014 (UTC), revised 04:19, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Diffs
 * Usarid keep, 05:32, 18 March 2014
 * Pspeter keep, 20:31, 19 March 2014
 * Crines keep, 00:09, 21 March 2014
 * Usarid adds bolded 'keep's in front of all his (and other users) comments, 17:52, 23 March 2014
 * Ivolazy keep, 22:47, 23 March 2014

There's a slight inaccuracy in the above Diff comments - Usarid added "Keep" in front of multiple users comments in obvious good faith for the reason he states below. Crines (talk) 03:52, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you for pointing that out. I just updated it. Mz7 (talk) 04:19, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

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Hello there, I am the owner of the crines account, a new account I created and my first article is RESTful API Modeling Language which was set to delete status. I have been adding comments of notability to the Deletion discussion page under ONLY crines though in a couple of cases and being new and not fully up yo speed with how the edit system works I missed signing a couple of comments in the discussion and now that I know how to do that it won't happen again BUT at no time did I use a different account name. In the complaint there's mention of the fact comments reference other comments and that is just a case of adding additional background knowledge to the claim to keep the article. I plan on authoring more articles and contributing to others on similar topics in the future even though this first experience has been less than successful... Crines (talk) 03:10, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi, I'm the owner of the usarid account, and last I checked I was no sockpuppet. I don't use any other account myself, and only added comments under my own name. I thought -- correct me if I'm wrong -- that the boldface "keep" were a convention to indicate whether a comment is meant to support the argument to keep the article, so I did in one or two cases add that annotation on other comments -- sorry if that was inappropriate, and feel free to remove those if it makes any difference, but I was doing it to make it easier to scan the bullet points. Other than that, I'm not sure what to say: I've not used my own account for many things but I've had it for a while. Like the author of the article on RAML, I too hope to actually contribute more in the future (not just contributing to the foundation, I mean contributing more content), and like him too I hope it will be a more positive experience. Let me know if you need me to address anything else or supply any more information. Usarid (talk) 04:29, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello, I'm the owner of the nohorbee account. Not only this is my only account but also the nickname could be verified among other public profiles (I.E.: twitter), existing for several years. These are my first contributions as reviewer, and since I'm working on the subject, it seemed correct to me to encourage the community to keep the page since the contents seem to be precise. As indicated on the Wikipedia guides, Writing "keep" in bold style, is recommended in order to making bots work easier. Having said that, as far as I know, I'm not committing violations to any of the rules, and my contribution should be useful and positive. If I'm wrong, please let me know or feel free to remove any contribution I made. Don't hesitate in contacting me if you need me to provide more evidence of my real existence, free will, and good intentions. 181.47.99.122 (talk) 06:08, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - There are particular mannerisms that make me suspect they are the same person. Still, best to get CU to confirm our suspicions. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 05:08, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
 * All four are ❌ to each other and to Usarid. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (Message me) 21:41, 9 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 02:25, 10 April 2014 (UTC)