Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/WizardlyWho/Archive

15 March 2012

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This users third edit was to an AFD discussion of an article that WizardlyWho created. That in itself is a bid suspect, but I also noticed that OldGeorgie uses backlink instead of wikilink, which WizardlyWho also did. WizardlyWho is blocked per a checkuser last week following this discussion at ANI. SmartSE (talk) 17:31, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

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 * Not Me. The Ginny Deerin page was a recent listing at the articles for deletion archive when I became a member. It's the only one that stood out to me. I'm an oldy and only been on wikipedia for a couple weeks so "backlinks" is the only other term I know to use to describe incoming links for "wikilinks". OldGeorgie (talk) 19:50, 15 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I don't understand what being "an oldy and only been on wikipedia for a couple weeks" means, exactly. Does this mean you are an "older person" who has now joined WP, or does it mean that you... what does it mean? Doc   talk  00:59, 16 March 2012 (UTC)


 * There is definitely something slightly strange about this editor's interest in this article, especially after seeing this. I not sure whether it's a sock or a meat puppet, but a COI on some level seems more likely than not. I think that this is probably the same user, making good on the guarantee to preserve the article as part of the "warranty". Just my opinion. Doc   talk  01:40, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * While I can't offer technical evidence since they were using an anonymizer (which is unusual for an "oldy"), I'm convinced that this account was operated by the same person that operated WizardlyWho, and I have blocked and tagged him as such. Amalthea  11:30, 17 March 2012 (UTC)