Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Musicedbloggerman

Musicedbloggerman

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For archived investigations, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Musicedbloggerman/Archive.

Report date January 17 2010, 21:51 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

• Musicedbloggerman (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Pea12345 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• 12.70.189.98 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))

Evidence submitted by Wine Guy

• Musicedbloggerman has within the past week created a walled garden of three articles, Chris Purifoy, The Restoring Music Foundation, and Philip E. Daniels which appear to be about himself, an organization with which he is associated, and a colleague. These articles are all currently at AfD, [1], [2], [3].

• IP 12.70.189.98(Contribs) then appeared, making edits to the Purifoy and Daniels articles. This IP is located in the Nashville, Tennessee metro area (specifically Murfreesboro); this location corresponds to Chris Purifoy.

• On January 16, a new user, Pea12345(Contribs) appeared, making edits to the Daniels article and the related AfD discussion. This user appears to be either a sockpuppet or a meatpuppet of User:Musicedbloggerman.

While there are certainly more egregious uses of sockpuppetry around WP, the WP community's serious attitude regarding the sock issue makes me think that this situation should be looked into here.

Comments by accused parties

See Defending yourself against claims. I am new to Wiki and am not a sockpuppet or meatpuppet. So forgive me if I am stepping out of protocol here. I am also learning about how to edit and contribute to wiki. However, I am a rather incensed by the judgments and assumptions and claims that are being made against me, as a sockpuppet or meatpuppet. I was overjoyed to see an article has been created about me. I also wanted to keep myself anonymous for privacy reasons. You will see that I have spent a lot of time only to improve the article that was NOT originally created by me, and found citations and links to support my notability in my field. The community has made certain assumptions and suspicions about me, without fully investigating or researching the links, my activities and achievements. One comment even referred to my links mentioning "a charge". Well, I don't litigate. I have found the comments ill-informed, ill-researched, and plain wrong, and frankly insulting. I recommend that the community re-reviews the improved article with all links and citations throughly on a stand alone basis and on face value, without a background of suspicions of sockpuppetry, walled gardens, meatpuppetry. You will find that my notability has been established.Pea12345 (talk) 01:30, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Comments by other users

• This does seem more than slightly suspicious. New editor creates a walled garden. Garden comes under AfD by several different editors, and then brand new editors turn up to defend the garden at AfD. If it quacks like a duck... --Bfigura ^(talk) 04:33, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

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