Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Kpkambo

User:Kpkambo

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

Dethme0w 05:32, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Tao300 has been caught redhanded. Edit history shows that Kpkambo added an extra vote to an AfD (Articles_for_deletion/Spiritual_Agnosticism), realized that his sig was visible, reverted it, and then as Tao300 posted the identical vote, character for character. Gtdude and Lordoftheflies123 are contemporary with Tao300, have no contribs prior, and expressed the same points that Tao300 and Kpkambo himself did.
 * Evidence

07/10/09 18:46 PDT: Adding User:Velvetluvr to the list of sock puppets. No prior contribs. Read this guy's user page - he actually admits to being a puppet!
 * And another one. Special:Contributions/71.59.8.82 turned someone's comment into a Keep vote.  No prior contribs.
 * And Special:Contributions/68.209.121.58. Within minutes of the others.  Last prior contrib was in February but since this is an IP that is probably the same as no contribs.  Probably a meatpuppet.
 * And User:Brainiac1024. At about the same point in time, inserted vote in the middle of others to make it look less obvious, and no contribs prior.
 * And User:BrutusTheLiberator. Another one that keeps deleting Shalom's note to the closing admin, and no prior contribs. Dethme0w 02:42, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

This puppetry is apparently being done for the purpose of tilting the result of Articles_for_deletion/Spiritual_Agnosticism. Kpkambo himself tried to vote twice under his own account.
 * Comments
 * And he has added another one, User:Velvetluvr.
 * And that user has removed your note. -- Dethme0w 02:09, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Comment. The sock puppetry is clearly evident for the purpose of vote stacking. I recommend that the three puppet accounts be blocked indefinitely, and the puppet master should be blocked for at least three days, or until the AFD expires, so that he can't cause any more trouble with that. (He has no other meaningful contribs anyhow.) I'll leave a note at the AFD, advising the closing admin of this problem. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 16:34, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Observation. The one thing that seems to distinguish this person from the couple or so legitimate "keep" voters in this AfD is that the puppets all extol the value and originality of the article while evading or flatly denying (without further comment) the core rationale for deleting it - that it is entirely OR. -- Dethme0w 02:13, 10 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * All user accounts blocked in the course of closing Articles for deletion/Spiritual Agnosticism. Sandstein 21:40, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Closing, already blocked. Rlevse 14:06, 20 October 2007 (UTC)