Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/The Namaste Guild

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User:The Namaste Guild

Suspected sockpuppeteer: The Namaste Guild (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets: Monitor-Weekly (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log); Andrewdvalles3 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

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— Coren ^(talk) 20:15, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

Vote stacking in an AfD. Original account is in obvious conflict of interest and both apparent socks have been created within hours of the AfD nomination 1 2 and have made no contribution beyond support for the nominated article 3 4 5.

Comments

Elitism at its finest. When you have no other alternatives to our points of rebuttal, you resort to blatant crass. We gladly volunteer that we asked others to assist us. That is not against the rules (since there are none in accordance with Five Pillars of Wikipedia), and this is a tactic that is practiced everywhere; especially in politics. We could allege the same thing at your attention. We would also like to elaborate that we were offered help by Sancho; and the information that was provided was extremely helpful. With that information we enlisted support. However, to speculate that we told these people what to say is not only false, but also irrelevant when the facts are weighted... we were encouraged to do so. The Namaste Guild 20:55, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vindictiveness at its finest, if you will forgive my harsh response. I have crossed out the sockpuppet votes at the AFD, and I will ask the first admin who reads this to indefinitely block those sockpuppet accounts. Even if those other accounts are of your friends and not yourself (and I believe they are entirely your own), for Wikipedia policy it makes no difference (see meatpuppet). Shalom ^Hello 21:35, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

Yes. I've indef-blocked the two solicited meatpuppet accounts, and striking their comments from the AfD is appropriate. After consideration, I've elected not to block the puppetmaster account. He may not have been aware of policy and a warning on his talk page.