Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/MinsiPatches

User:MinsiPatches

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

Hers fold  (t/a/c) 06:40, 26 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Evidence


 * Contributions of Special:Contributions/Minsi Scouter clearly indicate a single-purpose account created for the large number of scout-camp based AfD's (first of which is here, scroll down for remainder) begun by User:MinsiPatches a few days ago. The account was created 03:04 UTC Friday morning, and after putting basic text on their user and user talk pages, went straight to AfD with a clear notion of how to format a response there. All !votes were exactly identical and in favor of keeping the articles.
 * MinsiPatches began these AfD's shortly after the deletion of Camp Minsi (which has since been recreated as a redirect). During that AfD, he was noted to have taken part in canvassing other editors for support in keeping the article. When it was deleted, MinsiPatches nominated a series of other articles on scout camps for PROD, then AfD, using a verbatim copy of the rationale for the Camp Minsi deletion. Treasure Island Scout Reservation has since been snowball closed as obviously notable, and the consensus on the remaining articles is hovering between keep as a bad faith nomination or merge to another article.
 * The appearance of yet another "Minsi" account interested in these articles is a bit too much for coincidence. The intentions of these accounts are extremely similar, and the operation of the accounts has some similarity The user MinsiPatches has shown in the past that he is either not knowledgeable of, or has no respect for, policies and procedures that are in place to prevent the disruption of the site. The recent chain of this disregard for policy leaves me to suspect foul play with the account User:Minsi Scouter. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 06:39, 26 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Comments


 * A report at WP:ANI was issued for User:MinsiPatches in regard to a potential WP:POINT violation with the multiple AfD nominations. The discussion was archived here with no action taken. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 06:39, 26 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Added User:CampMinsi due to name and editing similarity. Note that this is the oldest of the three accounts. I'm not sure if CampMinsi is the same as the other two, but it warrants a looking at. Note that since I am currently involved in reviewing other SSP cases and am in the ScoutingWikiProject and have participated in the discussions mentioned by Hersfold, I have to recuse myself from taking part in admin actions in this case, but that does not preclude me from participating in a standard user role. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 11:49, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not so sure they are related, although it is possible. Their contributions are laid out in such a manner that they were never both online at the same time - the two closest timestamps are here for Camp and here for Patches, a 2.5 hour difference. CampMinsi did support MinsiPatches' potential canvassing activities in the Camp Minsi AfD here, but they've had no other direct communication otherwise. Generally sockpuppets are used to support each other more often, at least from what I've seen. CampMinsi does also predate the creation of the other two accounts by over a year, and appeared to be in good standing up to and through the completion of the Camp Minsi AfD. Since then, he has made no edits to the project. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 20:14, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I am not a sockpuppet of anyone. Yes, I only really work on Minsi related articles, so I can see how other Minsi-centric editors might appear similar, but we are not the same. I do personally know the person behind user:MinsiPatches (we both worked at Minsi together a while back), but I am not him; I am not his sockpuppet, his meatpuppet or any other type of pawn. CampMinsi 20:38, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

User:Minsi Scouter has been indefinitely blocked, the account was an obvious WP:SPA utilized for vote stacking in several AfDs. User's third edit was to vote in an AfD, the first two edits were to create the user and talk pages. Dreadstar †  21:42, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Conclusions