Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Whatat/Archive

Evidence submitted by Lothar von Richthofen
Presumed sockmaster created article Leslie Bean, which is beyond a reasonable doubt a G3 article. The sock seems to have been created just to remove the speedy deletion template, as no other edits for it exist. Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 23:26, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims. This is the only account that I own. I just created it because I read that the Leslie Bean article was going to be deleted erroneously. I previously went to school in Grinnell Iowa and was aware of the drink and it's popularity there.
 * What, you're trying to say a cocktail that has a Lady GaGa single as one of its ingredients actually exists? -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 06:18, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Comments by other users
Agree. It is beyond implausible that a genuine new user's first act on Wikipedia would be to find a recently created orphaned article and remove deletion tags from it. --DanielRigal (talk) 00:18, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't know whether the user is a sockpuppet, but the subsequent edit to Grinnell College is apparently factual in content and I have restored it and sourced it appropriately. Avram (talk) 12:26, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks for that - the unsourced "Sticky Tongued Frogs" thing seemed unlikely to me. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 12:55, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Blocked as VOA, but I'm leaving this case open as unresolved for now. I'm still looking at a few things. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 12:41, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm going to mark this for close. If the second account starts up again with the nonsense, they should be reported to AIV. Otherwise, I think assuming good faith may be the best course. TN X Man  13:08, 2 October 2010 (UTC)