Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Rocket-Purse


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User:Rocket-Purse

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets

Theonethird 03:50, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
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Rocket-Purse first created the articles Doonys and Doonys characters on 21 April 2006. These articles cite no sources and are likely hoaxes. All of this user's other contributions are in some way Doonys related. Speculation about the article began on the Doonys talk page on 4 March 2007, but this went largely unnoticed.
 * Evidence

Later, on 8 May 2007, some information was accidentally deleted from the page but was reverted within 24 hours. A user with the IP 84.66.218.37 left an unsigned comment on the Doonys talk page coming to the defense of the deleted information. User 84.66.218.37 has made eight total contributions to Wikipedia between 8 May 2007 and 10 May 2007 all relating to Doonys. All of the other suspected sockpuppets related to Rocket-Purse follow a similar pattern of contributing a small amount of information in a limited period of time

User Japanese Zapher first appeared at 07:02 (UTC), on 12 May 2007 in response to some vandalism done to the article. The user's response was followed 11 minutes at 07:13 later by a response from Rocket-Purse. Twenty minutes later, at 07:33, another user, NinjaTobei appeared and commented on the vandalism.

On 14 May 2007, a user posted a comment on the talk page questioning the legitimacy of the article and calling for specific information and sources to support the article. User Elder Deitra first appears here to, yet again, defend the article.

On 17 May 2007, user SlappyFan42 appeared with yet another defense.

To me, it seems clear that the suspected puppetmaster, Rocket-Purse, created an article based on his or her own fantasy. The bulk of the article for Doonys was written by Rocket-Purse and has no external sources whatsoever to back it up. When the existence of Doonys began to be questioned, the user created multiple users to defend the article and make it seem as though there are lots of people who know about the show. All of the suspected sockpuppets have made relatively few contributions, and all within a short period of time, as if each new defense required another user to provide validity. It is also noteworthy that the contributions from each of the newer accounts do not overlap with each other except for one contribution that Japanese Zapher made before NinjaTobei's. It seems rather clear that there is one person behind all of these accounts. Theonethird 03:50, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comments

Although I am absolutely certain now that Doonys is a not a "real anime" as such, and thus fails the Notability criterion, after some further research I suspect that one or more of the users in question may actually be real people. However, even if they are not sockpuppets, the evidence is still very much in favour of them being astroturfing meatpuppets. PS4FA 22:58, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Please note that the Doonys article has now been deleted. Theonethird 12:54, 22 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * All named accounts indef blocked; IP left untouched. --Akhilleus (talk) 04:26, 26 May 2007 (UTC)