Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Witch cat 2907/Archive

23 September 2013

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This is a peculiar set of editors. Of course they may be independent, or they may be meat puppets with puppetmaster or may be socks and sock master. Whatever they are, they seem to be promoting one Gregor Rosinger and also !voting at Articles for deletion/Gregor Rosinger in the same unsigned style. Each is a single purpose account. I am starting to hear the quacking of attempts to swing a deletion discussion by !vote packing, with none of them realising that it is not a ballot. It seems to me that the Checkuser tool would give reasonably concrete evidence either way. Fiddle  Faddle  23:47, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

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FiddleFaddle - if you will use the checkuser tool you will find out, that I use only one account, and I am sure that you will find out, that also whitch cat and the hawaiianrainbow are other users. I am working here in Vienna as Investmentbanker - Rosinger is a great person who handles billion dollars (look to the newspapers. Here at the stock exchange he is on of the Top-Investors - it is absolutely clear that also other bankers and investors will write positive statements for him. I don't know where you live FiddleFaddle, but here he is well known. Greetings from Wallstreet Fighter --Wallstreet Fighter (talk) 00:07, 24 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Only a very few people have the rights to use the tool. I cannot. I can simply report unusual seeming things and ask that others consider them. Fiddle   Faddle  09:38, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
 * The "not immediately obvious from the diffs" behaviour is very simply demonstrated at the AfD (stated in the nomination). Each is a single purpose account and each has made very few edits. Each AfD !vote ie essentially similar, and may be sockpuppetry or simple !vote stacking. Only a diagnostic tool such as Checkuser can show which. Diffs will not be helpful to make this decision, indeed following them will be more labour intensive than simply reading the AfD. Fiddle   Faddle  08:58, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Rschen7754 22:54, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Personally I'm not a fan of using CU to make the distinction between sock/meat for cases like this - they're throwaway accounts and their votes won't mean much to the closing admin. But I'll leave the final decision to another clerk or a CU. Rschen7754 03:16, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
 * - as AFD closed, but come back if the accounts start operating again. Rschen7754 08:22, 9 October 2013 (UTC)