Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/jamesdaviddiamond/Archive

11 June 2014

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I recently opened an AfD for the autobiographical article James_D._Diamond, created by User:Jamesdaviddiamond. Recently a new editor appeared defending the article and proposing to correct it. This new editor's first edit took place 15 minutes after the most recent edit by User:Jamesdaviddiamond and his edit to the AfD took place in another 16 minutes. Two such close edits concerning the same article by accounts that are both narrow in focus suggests some connection and I'd like a CheckUser to confirm or reject my suspicion that this account is being used to improperly influence the AfD process. SteveMcCluskey (talk) 21:29, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

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EditorJohnny (talk) 16:58, 12 June 2014 (UTC)EditorJohnny I am the user EditorJohnny. I am brand new to Wikipedia. I know Jim Diamond. I was sitting with the man and he discussed the fact that a Wikipedia user was discussing whether a biographical page about him should be deleted, as the user questioned whether it was too self-promotional. I thought this was odd since Wikipedia is filled with articles about politicians who use Wikipedia to promote themselves. I offered to proofread and edit the page. I announced on the deletion page that I would try to edit the page, and then I made a few edits where I deleted some content which might be viewed as self-promotional. I think I made the article better. I did not know that I was supposed to announce that I knew Jim Diamond. I apologize if I broke a Wikipedia rule--written or unwritten. I didn't know it was a rule. I understand now why impartiality and transparency is important to the Wikipedia community and to the self regulatory nature of the article submission and deletion process. I will not make this mistake again. EditorJohnny (talk) 16:58, 12 June 2014 (UTC)EditorJohnny

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The two accounts are ✅. Then again, even if I believed Johnny's explanation, it would still be a violation of WP:MEAT... Salvio Let's talk about it! 15:54, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Blocked, closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 01:06, 19 June 2014 (UTC)