Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Zeq

User:Zeq

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

RolandR (talk) 22:15, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Zeq has been blocked for a year for disruptive behaviour, including attempting to recruit scores of meatpuppets in order to influence the content of Wikipedia; see Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/Wikilobby campaign. This account is one of them; see comment in related correspondence "I edited an article about Paul McKenna. I found a slight grammatical error and fixed it. I also updated information on his US television appearances. There was a place where I indicated that it was a minor change and then a box where I described the changes I made" and diff.
 * Evidence

Properly speaking, this editor, assuming s/he is the individual in those emails, is not a sock puppet, but a person who was recruited by an e-mail campaign to edit on behalf of a pressure group. Given that he has made exactly two minor edits, and we all know now to keep an eye on him, I see no purpose in any type of sanction. Even if we were to permanently ban him, which would anyway be capricious and excessive, he could just create an new account and there'd be nothing to tie him to those two little edits. So there's no point. Maybe he'll become a helpful and productive editor despite the way he was recruited. (There's a quote from Wayne's World about monkeys that I'd like to use here, but that would be going too far.) &lt;eleland/talkedits&gt; 09:37, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments


 * Conclusions

No action at this point in time. GBT/C 12:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)