Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Whatsuppaman/Archive

13 August 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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If you look at the contribs for these users you'll see they are all single purpose accounts for editing articles related to a not-notable band called Dethcentrik and not-notable person Død Beverte associated with that band. The extra users and IPs, I believe are being used to give the articles some legitimacy, in addition to the multiple fabricated urls used to pose as refs to establish notability. This user has gone to pretty great lengths to give these subjects an air of notability. Those links which are not fake urls lead to nothing more than track listings. Notice that none of the users have made any edits not related to Dethcentrik, or Død Beverte. Normally I wouldn't care enough about a user having more than one account to report them but this user insists on using Wikipedia to host Hoax articles about himself and advertise the band. See for instance Articles for deletion/Dethcentrik where yet another single purpose user shows up to parrot User:MetallerMex666's false claims of notability several minutes later. Metal lunchbox (talk) 02:29, 13 August 2011 (UTC)


 * the same thing is now happening at Articles for deletion/Dethcentrik (2nd nomination) where a single purpose ip account shows up minutes after User:BusyWikipedian argues to keep Dethcentrik from deletion only parrot what he says. I now believe that BusyWikipedian is the puppet master . This is somewhat elaborate and I'm kind of impressed.


 * user has added yet another single purpose ip just after another actually user disagrees with user's KEEP position in same AfD as above. parroting the same arguments user BusyWikipedian makes. Metal lunchbox (talk) 04:09, 13 August 2011 (UTC)


 * More and more of these singe purgpose IPs which agree with BusyWikipedian in amazingly unoriginal ways keep popping up. I can't keep track of them. They are removing speedy deletion notices like Dod Beverte and any talk/discussion page related to an article he or one of his puppets created. I'm not going to update the list above. Metal lunchbox (talk) 06:41, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

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All of the named accounts except one are very much. TN X Man 16:32, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah in the course of an AfD it was brought up that socks were being used for vote-stacking and mild harassment, those socks have been abandoned. I have no idea who the puppet master is. This is clearly puppetry but without a clue who the puppet master is I'm not sure if this report is very useful. Metal lunchbox (talk) 17:46, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I guess so? Not really sure. This editor is only using one account for now - BusyWikipedian - so I'll leave it be for now. Relist if there's any actual abuse of accounts. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:07, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

27 January 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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Quack. More vote stacking. All three have !voted keep in Articles for deletion/Død Beverte (2nd nomination). First IP is like the five in the previous case, a Qwest Communications Company, Denver, IP address and also has a primary interest in Død Beverte and his band. IP has also helped bombard articles with "playlists" as BusyWikipedian has done. The second is another Denver IP, a shared address who's only edit since Nov is this !vote which shares the same fallacious argument about IODA as BusyWikipedian. duffbeerforme (talk) 08:15, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' This is my IP address: 184.99.10.249. Hope that makes this process less difficult for you - BusyWikipedian (talk) 15:12, 27 January 2012 (UTC) Looking at the contributions by 97.112.152.209 they do share quite a few pages in common with me in proportion to their total edits. I certainly did not condone this, and if they are attempting to validate any of my contributions, they are doing so without my direction or condolence. I feel that this investigation is a ploy to win a particular AfD by discrediting all the keep votes, and on a broader level to mask the accuser's meatpuppetery. BusyWikipedian (talk) 17:13, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

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 * The master here hasn't edited in more than a year, and I don't really see a strong connection to them - and there's no reason to take action against them. As to the IPs: they are in the same area as BusyWikipedian (by his own admission) so my guess is that we're looking at some form of meatpuppetry. I'm not going to take any action here, though. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:45, 29 January 2012 (UTC)