Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wikicontributor1170/Archive

Report date August 6 2009, 23:51 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by MuZemike

Votestacking at Articles for deletion/Kris Hadlock. Possible that one or more of these above-registered accounts fall under the same or similar IP addresses listed. MuZemike 23:51, 6 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by MuZemike 23:51, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Looks very much like socking or meatpuppeting here. A checkuser to establish that would be nice. NW ( Talk ) 01:40, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Result not affected yet; you may wish to keep this open until the vote closes, however. -- Avi (talk) 04:18, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * Well, it seems like the result was unaffected by the socks. I recommend still, a WP:DUCK/WP:MEAT block on the accounts. NW ( Talk ) 19:43, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Frankly, I don't think a checkuser would be helpful here anyway. This looks like a typical case of meat puppetry...some have behavioural differences that don't match others. This theory is strengthened by the IPs (two geolocate to two different parts of New York, one to Florida). Blocked all named accounts, but I won't bother tagging them. Sure, a couple might be the same, but as they were all SPAs, I doubt there's more to do. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 20:25, 12 August 2009 (UTC)