Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/MacRusgail


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the case of suspected sockpuppetry. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page. All edits should go to the talk page of this case. If you are seeing this page as a result of an attempt to open a new case of sockpuppetry of the same user, read this for detailed instructions.

User:MacRusgail

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets

Limegreen 03:01, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Report submission by:


 * Evidence

After a one year absence, User:ImpartialCelt has reappeared, with over half their recent contributions being AfD votes, many of those being deletes for articles nominated by User:MacRusgail (e.g.,, , , , ). There is also an example of this from 12 months ago. Impartial Celt has edited very few pages, one of which MacRusgail was also an author of. He also put a picture of a sock puppet on his user page and called it a portrait.


 * Comments
 * The Celtic League article has over a hundred authors. As for the accusation, I have the "sockpuppet"'s email. We are both interested in Celtic stuff. End of story. As I am innocent, I don't feel I have any reason to justify myself, just because I have objected to some temporary interest articles. --MacRusgail 03:12, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The Celtic League article has around 200 unique edits by considerably fewer than 100 authors. However, I'm quite happy to give you the benefit of the doubt. It just seems rather fishier than average that someone with so few edits should be an active AfD participant, and on so many with which you have been involved. Also, this is not politically motivated, but that red usernames on AfDs often suggest some form of invitation. --Limegreen 03:32, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Per this recent comment to your talk in response to this comment, this is not sockpuppetry but canvassing? --Limegreen 07:47, 22 February 2007 (UTC)


 * From looking at the times of each users' contributions, I think it's possible that these accounts are the same person. I'm not certain, however, and I think that a Checkuser request might be in order here--it might meet code "D". --Akhilleus (talk) 03:26, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

ImpartialCelt is obviously a sock, or at least wants to be seen that way, from the userpage pictures. I've obliged with an indef block. However, I don't believe that the evidence convincingly shows that MacRusgail is the puppeteer. Seraphimblade Talk to me 07:01, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Conclusions