Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fabricdragon

Fabricdragon

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

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

Report date April 29 2010, 04:05 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

• Msemeb (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Viriditasblossoming (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• MrColombo (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• 66.241.79.147 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 66.241.81.94 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 66.241.88.43 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))

Evidence submitted by Beyond My Ken

The article Victoria Boutenko, about a spokesperson for the raw food movement, was created by Fabricdragon on 17 Nov 2009.[1], the account's last recorded edit. Since then, except for some maintenance and other routine edits, all the edits to the article have been made by Msemeb, Viriditasblossoming and the three 66.241.xxx.xx IPs.[2][3]

On 20 April 2010, the article Green smoothie, about a raw food blended drink, was created by Msemeb.[4] Since then, all the edits to the article, aside from some routine edits, have been by Msemeb, Viriditasblossoming and 66.241.81.94 [5][6] – except for two edits by MrColombo,[7] an account created today, whose first two edits were to the AfD for Green smoothie.

Neither Msemeb nor Viriditasblossoming has edited outside of the ambit of these two articles, Victoria Boutenko and Green smoothie.[8][9] Except for one edit to J. Edgar Hoover, all of the edits of 66.241.79.147 have been to Victoria Boutenko.[10]. 66.241.88.43 has edited only Green smoothie and Victoria Boutenko (one edit each)[[11], and 66.241.81.94 has edited only those same two articles, and Talk:Victoria Boutenko.[12]

If these accounts are all the same editor, then there's been !voting misbehavior at the Green smoothie AfD, since Msemeb, Viriditasblossoming and MrColombo have all voted "Keep" there.[13]

The behavioral evidence here is pretty strong, but a checkuser should be run to see if there are other connected accounts.

Wikistalk result Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:05, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

All accounts and IPs notified. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:24, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties

See Defending yourself against claims.

I am not hiding that this is the first Wikipedia article that i have ever attempted to write. I was unaware that not contributing to other articles would be held against me. I have been researching, drafting and continually editing to try and meet all of the wikipedia requirements and criticisms for green smoothie. I have chosen to learn the procedure and focus on one article. The Victoria Boutenko article was edited to give the green smoothie information more credibility (as suggested in the green smoothie discussion ). As the checkuser will find we are not the same person, so Im not worried about this. --User:Msemeb

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Checkuser request – code letter: F (Other reason )

Current status – Endorsed for Checkuser attention.    Requested by Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:05, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

 Clerk endorsed to check Msemeb (talk · contribs), Viriditasblossoming (talk · contribs) and MrColombo (talk · contribs). Personally I think the link to Fabricdragon (talk · contribs) is slightly more tenuous, but in any case they would appear to be  Stale. Spitfire^Tally-ho! 13:12, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Fabricdragon is, of course, stale.  Confirmed for all the other listed accounts and IPs; unambiguous. --jpgordon^{::==( o )} 16:24, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

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