Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Greenflea3000

User:Greenflea3000

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets

-- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 18:56, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Report submission by

Newmediasinecure is a new account that immediately began redoing the same edits to Nick Leibham, including attempting to link to the same pictures that Greenflea3000 uploaded (that have since been deleted)
 * Evidence


 * Comments

Newsmediasinecure is a account created by a co-worker of mine. We have worked together on wikipedia edits but neither he nor I are the proxy of the other. In this case, Newsmediasinecure cannot be considered a "meatpuppet" because the purpose of using two seperate accounts from two different people was solely for the creation and maintenance of wiki sites and not for illicit purposes involving "influencing a survey, performing reverts, or otherwise attempting to give the appearance of consensus" (from the wiki section on meatpuppetry). Neither my co-worker nor I are at all experienced with wikipedia and did not know that we needed to make clear in advance that we have a personal or professional connection. To insure that no third party observer thinks that we are pretending to build a larger independent consensus, we have taken the advice of wikipedia and placed a disclaimer to that effect on our user pages. Because of our lack of experience in wikipedia, any suggestions on how to prove that we are not in violation of sock puppet rules would be very much appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Greenflea3000 (talk • contribs) 23:16, 22 August 2008 (UTC) Per tony, I think we should assume good faith here. SQL Query me! 19:47, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I have personally worked with one of these persons on a political campaign whose initials are SG. I received an email today from SG saying we are having trouble and it seems like they are just unfamiliar with editorial procedures.  I have little doubt given the history of Greenflea3000 that a couple of rookies are trying to work together to produce something in WP:AGF.  I doubt they are in violation of the spirit of any WP:SOCK rules.  I believe they are enthusiastic about their current campaign and tried to create a WP entry in attempt to contribute from their expertise on the biographical information of this subject.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:38, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions