Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wikedit-34/Archive

Evidence submitted by Hairhorn
Articles for deletion/Runecats Explorer has uncovered a whole warren of sock- and/or meat-puppets. User:Wikedit-34 is the oldest of the accounts and may or may not be involved. Most accounts are SPAs centred around Runecats Explorer, User:Ecofreakoftreeland and User: John2232 have tried to add up edits outside of Runecats Explorer by adding blank lines to unrelated articles.

Some of this may be meatpuppetry rather than outright socks, but I rather suspect most are socks, since they seem to be appearing one right after the other in the AfD debate. Hairhorn (talk) 17:41, 26 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Adding User:Bobmarleyisawesome, a new account that blanked this page. Hairhorn (talk) 17:55, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Adding User:Dojan5, new account, the same style, actively discussing AfD of RE article. SkyBonTalk/Contributions 21:50, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Added User: LucarFox, the latest brand new account to turn up on the AfD page. Hairhorn (talk) 03:11, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Conclusions
Definite sockpuppetry, if not meatpuppetry, present here. Blocked all. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 13:35, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Hairhorn
I missed this one the first time around. Another new account with the same circle of edits and a serious vandal edit on the AfD page. Hairhorn (talk) 11:27, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by SkyBon
New account. Made "keep" comment in previous sockpuppets' style. Also all the sockpuppets' nicks plus this one can be found at Runecats Forum. SkyBonTalk/Contributions 18:49, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Conclusions
No action taken at this time, unless the disruption starts back up. Looks like clear off-wiki canvassing/meatpuppetry, probably not clear socking. The admin who closes that AFD has the prerogative to disregard said commentary by those users as policy prescribes. MuZemike 02:02, 31 October 2009 (UTC)