Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vaufe/Archive

11 December 2014

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I'm not sure which ones are the puppets or which one (or one I didn't find) is the puppeteer, but this is the one with the oldest edit. I discovered them as a result of checking WikiProject Football/San Jose Earthquakes task force while working on closing Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/San Jose Earthquakes task force. — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 17:44, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

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 * Can you provide further information about how you suspect the accounts are related and how there's sockpuppetry? Diffs would be much appreciated. Mike V  •  Talk  22:23, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * , on further inspection, I'm leaning more towards being the sockmaster and having created those additional accounts to try and hit some arbitrary number of his perception of what the minimum number of participants to create his own "task force" was based on WikiProject Football/Task forces and sub-projects.  I find it quite suspicious that all of these accounts (except the one I just mentioned) where created at the same general time as the task force was created, they all signed up for the task force as their only edits and did so in . — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 22:48, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for provided more info. Given that there's the possibility that 3 or more accounts could have contributed to the same MfD, I think a check is needed. Mike V  •  Talk  19:19, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm going to have to say . There are no overlapping networks and the UAs are all drastically different. Only thing the same is the same extended metropolitian area. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  22:18, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm going to close this with no action taken. Given that the users are all interested in a regional team, it's no surprise they're located in the same area. Given the checkuser evidence, it's probably just different individuals who know each other and joined the same Wikiproject together. Mike V  •  Talk  14:20, 16 December 2014 (UTC)