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04 September 2010

Suspected sockpuppets

• 4Beauties (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

Evidence submitted by Elektrik Shoos

Previously discussed at this AN/I discussion. Copy/pasted from there:

• Degmarshall has existed on Wikipedia since 2006. His edits have been nearly entirely focused on either the article about him or his band, Staggered Crossing.
• With exception to a few edits to Canadian English, 4Beauties' edit history has been devoted to either Staggered Crossing or David E.G. Marshall.
• 4Beauties had his first edit in late July, where he created a userspace draft. Here's what the page looked like: [1].
• Less than two weeks later, Degmarshall created the autobiography. Here's what that initial page looked like: [2] (Notice how the userspace draft created by 4Beauties is nearly identical to this page.)
• Degmarshall and 4Beauties have never edited at the same time. Notice Degmarshall's edit on July 2nd, and 4Beauties' first edit less than a two hours later. Most of 4Beauties' edits occured on August 4th, with exception to one which occurred today. Likewise, note how Degmarshall didn't edit from August 2 until the 12th. He also hasn't edited since the 26th of August. But 4Beauties has, as I said earlier.

As this seems to be a quacking sock, I don't believe Checkuser will be necessary. I'm bringing this here so that there's (1) a filed case about it and (2) a guaranteed followup, which I've learned isn't necessarily the case at AN/I. elektrikSHOOS 19:55, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by accused parties   

See Defending yourself against claims.

Comments by other users

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 Confirmed –MuZemike 18:43, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

•  Clerk note: Sock blocked. Pending further action. NativeForeigner ^Talk/_Contribs 02:49, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Clarification: Meant pending close, three hours of sleep does nobody any good. NativeForeigner ^Talk/_Contribs 02:49, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]