Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Leavewikifactsalone

Leavewikifactsalone

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

24 December 2013

– A checkuser has completed a check on relevant users in this case, and it is now awaiting administration and close.

Suspected sockpuppets

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The username itself makes it seem as if this isn't the person's first account, and the user's been given a {{usernamehardblock}}. I'm simply requesting a check for sleepers. This is an SPA editing pretty much nothing except Washington Court House, Ohio, and I don't see any edits (yet) by likely socks; all other disruption at the page has been by IPs, aside from an obviously unrelated vandal that insisted on adding himself to the article. Still, it would be nice to know whether any other accounts had recently been created. Nyttend (talk) 15:33, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

•  Check declined by a checkuser -  CheckUser is not for fishing LFaraone 21:19, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Kindly read WP:NOTFISHING. "Fishing" is to check an account where there is no credible evidence to suspect sockpuppetry...it is not fishing to check an account where the alleged sockmaster is unknown, but there is reasonable suspicion of sockpuppetry. Please note that the account has been blocked as a sockpuppet. If you disagree with this, kindly unblock the user instead of declining the CU request, because this is precisely the situation that the policy page says is not fishing. See a parallel case at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Answers for Tryptofish/Archive, in which checkuser was run on a user blocked as a sock on the username alone. Nyttend (talk) 20:38, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Given that LFaraone withdrew his decline, I went ahead and checked because his username implied he was part of a series of disruptive accounts that have trolled Wikipedia in the past, and because he was blocked as a sockpuppet. He is  Unrelated to anybody else on his IP range, and definitely not a sock of the series of troll accounts. Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:19, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

It was just brought to my attention that LFaraone did not strike his decline—Nyttend did here. Please do not ever strike out checkuser actions like this again. Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:25, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

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