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Suspected sockpuppeteer

Jjcabbage (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

BThomer (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
AlamoGirl (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Bubbaflubba (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Maydon (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
RobLunan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Report submission by

Stellatomailing 06:00, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

All the users are screaming at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Rob_Lunan.

• All the suspected sock puppets have limited their contributions to Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Rob_Lunan. The only edits made by these accounts have occurred within an 18 hour period (22:43 28 May 2007 – 15:57 29 May 2007). No account has made more than two edits.

There are traits common to the posts of all suspected sock puppets:

The suspected sockpuppeteer and all the suspected sockpuppets have included insults in their posts.

All votes, whether cast by the suspected sockpuppeteer or the suspected sockpuppets, have been written as Do Not Delete, as opposed to the usual Keep.

Various posts accuse or infer that those supporting the AfD nomination have conflicts of interest:

In the first, AlamoGirl speculates that I may be “an ex with a grudge”.[1]

In the second and third, posted 17 minutes apart, Bubbaflubba and Maydon accuse those supporting the nomination of being in competition with the subject of the article. In doing so, they use similar language (“Why are you offenders trying to knock this guy off”; “This is corporate sleeze [sic] where a competitor is trying to knock out a notable source.”). Interestingly, the only post to display any knowledge about the industry in which Lunan works was made by BThomer, who provided a brief account of the relationship between Taunton Press and Lee Valley Tools (a former employer of Rob Lunan).[2]

66.78.121.157 may also be a sockpuppet. The initial edit by 66.78.121.157 involved the removal of all content pertaining to the AfD nomination. [3] Two minutes later, 66.78.121.157 removed the AfD tag from the Rob Lunan article.[4]. Both these edits were reverted immediately by other users. Twenty-eight minutes after 66.78.121.157’s final edit, BThomer made his or her first edit, casting the first to vote in support of the article. [5]. Victoriagirl 15:27, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: The above was written prior to the addition of RobLunan to the list of suspected sockpuppets. It does not address his post.[6] Victoriagirl 15:32, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Alamogirl is not a real user, check contribs and logs. Actually, a little bit of research, and the account is correct, just a typo in the reporting. Whsitchy 03:23, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

• Obvious. All indef blocked. --Akhilleus (talk) 16:50, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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