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User:Myth1727[edit]

Suspected sockpuppeteer

Myth1727 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

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Edcolins 23:34, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

Same types of usernames, same types of interests in articles relating to UN officials, UN-related articles or Cuba (Davide Stefanini, Bruno Geddo, Skye Wheeler, David Gressly, Rana Jawad, Eliane Duthoit, Head of the OCHA Office, Central African Republic, Cut and Paste Officer, Marie-Sophie Reck, Dominique Ferretti, Jean-Charles Dei, Manuel Aranda da Silva, Oluseyi Bajulaiye (deleted and re-created), Nicolas Rost (deleted and re-created), Bhutan Travel Bureau, Stuart Poucher, Breshna Orya, Versailles (café), Oxford International Forum - and deleted article: Yuanita Yuanita).

Disruptive multiple votes in Afd: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Davide Stefanini, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marco Tronchetti Provera and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Laetitia Zonzambé. ~~Disruptive creation of articles with disputable notability.~~

Disruptive personal attack in Ylva Lindberg [1]: "In 2006, Lindberg revealed that she was a lesbian, along with fellow hockey player Erika Holst. This clarified, a decade later, why she never accepted the advances of many male students during her times at Oxford.".

Maurizio Giuliano may possibly be an article about the contributor himself. It seems central in the contributions...

Possible lack of neutrality: [2], [3], [4], [5], Centre for Social Studies (CESOC), Centre for American Studies (CEA) ...

Further evidences:

Rogerh38 creates the article Ehud Bandel (# 14:32, September 7, 2007 (deletion log) (Restore) . . Ehud Bandel (←Created page with 'Rabbi Ehud Bandel is the leader of the Israeli Masorti movement.'). The article is deleted. A complain about the deletion [6] soon comes from Copy328 and the article is re-created by Copy328 [7].

Comments

I know some of these subjects related to Oxford and Cuba, and there may be some degree of possible "lack of neutrality", but the information is accurate and I think mostly relevant. Anyway, please note that the alleged "personal attack" (lesbian issue) was added in August 2006 by User:Tabercil, and not by any of the above suspected sockpuppets. So, the above issue only concerns the fact - in my view - that among the creation of numerous good articles, in good faith, the suspected sockpupeeteer has also created a small number that may be of little relevance or poorly referenced. CCorward

This user has only seven edits, all made on September 11, 2007. It may be a sockpuppet of Myth1727. --Edcolins 19:34, 11 September 2007 (UTC) [reply]

I think I know the sockpupeteer, which explains my interest in some subjects as I mentioned above, but I am not the same person. There is more than one person involved in Oxford and Cuba and using Wikipedia, and I am also interest in Judaism like the sockpupeteer. -- CCorward 18:34, 12 September 2007

Wrong, the sentence "This clarified, a decade later, why she never accepted the advances of many male students during her times at Oxford" was added by Upon237 on September 6, 2007, see [8]. The personal attack did not consist in adding that she is presumably lesbian (I have removed this first assertion due to the lack of multiple reliable sources for supporting it, not because it was a personal attack). The personal attack consisted in adding the second, above unsourced statement (and somehow original research) which may indicate a personal link with the person, and is, IMHO, quite inappropriate on Wikipedia.

The issue is not the notability of the articles (which can always be discussed - I have now removed the sentence above about the notability issue which is not really the matter here, indeed), but the use of several accounts for advancing a cause, and the personal attack. --Edcolins 19:34, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I think that using multiple accounts is not only disruptive and wrong, but also confusing in many ways and detrimental to the user community, and we must find a way to stop this practice. I suggest that sockpupeteers should be forced to come out of their shell and use just one name, if there is a way technically to enforce this. On the issue of personal attack, the sentence which you clarified above, seems to be very inappropriate and irrelevant but not a personal attack, so I suggest you re-word it to "inappropriate sentence" or something like that. If sockpupeteering is solved, I think the other issues are therefore resolved or surpassed. -- CCorward 18:34, 12 September 2007

Conclusions

I haven't looked at all of the edits by all the accounts listed here, but it's clear that there's sockpuppetry here. The accounts seem to have been abandoned, however, and since they're mostly throwaways I don't see the point of blocking them. If any of them return to editing disruptively, or if new accounts begin similar behavior, then it would be entirely appropriate to block. --Akhilleus (talk) 14:59, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]