Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/AngeliqueGarneau


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User:AngeliqueGarneau
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 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets

Godefroy 17:25, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
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There is currently a debate (or rather a controversy, given the level of agressivity from some editors) as to what flag should be used for the Guadeloupe football team which reached the semi-final of the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup: the French flag or some local unofficial flags of Guadeloupe? You can see the debate here: Talk:2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The template used for the Guadeloupe team (Template:GLPf) is also part of that debate, with User:RPIRED reverting the French flag there without any reason given. Note that this is linked to another controversy raging at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football about the use of the word "national" for the football teams of subnational entities such as Guadeloupe or Andalucia.
 * Evidence

Then in the middle of this suddenly comes User:AngeliqueGarneau who claims to be a Guadeloupean person living in the US who attended one of the Guadeloupe games in the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup. This user claims that "we are not France", that Guadeloupean supporters use the "local flag" (AngeliqueGarneau doesn't go as far as explaining what version of the local flag they supposedly use; there are many different versions of that local flag). I am extremely suspicious of this user because he/she just registered for the very purpose of writing this message and has no editing history on Wikipedia. You can check the editing history of this user here:. I wonder if an administror could check if this is the sock puppet of another user. I have no idea who the sock puppeteer could be, and I'm not 100% sure it's a case of sock-puppetry (I could be wrong in which case I will readily admit I was wrong), but given the circumstances and the strange coincidence of a newly created account supposedly from a Guadeloupean person certain that the French flag is not used (sounds too good to be true for those who want to delete the French flag), I think it would be good if an admin could do a quick check. Thanks.

PS: Also note that Garneau is not a surname from Guadeloupe. Checking on the French white pages online, I see there is not a single Mr. or Mrs. Garneau listed in the phone directory of Guadeloupe. The closest they have is one Mr. Garnaud, but that's a completely different surname:. Garneau is a surname found in metropolitan France, see for example in Paris, but apparently it does not exist in Guadeloupe, so again I'm suspicious that this AngeliqueGarneau is really from Guadeloupe.


 * Comments


 * Conclusions

Nothing really to be done here, and this seems a lot like fishing. Seraphimblade Talk to me 00:25, 27 June 2007 (UTC)