Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/RevengeOfTheRobots

RevengeOfTheRobots

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

01 June 2018

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

Suspected sockpuppets

• Benprecious (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Justjulesjustjules (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• DavidWay (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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Possible use of sockpuppets/meatpuppets to stack votes at an AfD and edit two articles. The suspected sockmaster (User:RevengeOfTheRobots) is a relatively old account that returned to the Wikipedia mainspace with the creation of the articles Frank Rouas [1] and JRP Collection Paris [2], both created on 29 May. When other editors began to question whether or not RevengeOfTheRobots has a conflict of interest or not (on the basis that they had personal access to photos of Frank Rouas, claimed the logo of JRP Collection Paris as their own work, repeatedly removed maintenance templates, etc), two new editors arrived on scene at the two articles in question. User:Benprecious edited [3] the Frank Rouas article and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frank Rouas, while User:Justjulesjustjules edited [4] the Frank Rouas AfD (their first ever edit) and edited [5] the JRP Collection Paris article. Both editors created their accounts on 31 May and made their first and only edits to articles RevengeOfTheRobots created; the likelyhood of new, unbiased editors finding their way to obscure articles and AfDs is highly improbable. Checkuser will be needed to determined whether it is a sock or meat puppet situation, though the reviewing admin could also take action using the duck test. SamHolt6 (talk) 00:36, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

User:DavidWay may also be involved; they made three edits (beginning with [6]) to their userpage in July 2017, and did not edit again until 1 June 2018 at both [7] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frank Rouas and [8] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/JRP Collection Paris.--SamHolt6 (talk) 14:38, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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• NOTE: The SPI case Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Charliee123/Archive from January 2018 dealt with SPA accounts promoting the same individual and may be relevant here. — CactusWriter ^(talk)
• I can hear the quacking from here! HighKing⁺⁺ 14:28, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Unlikely and unrelated.

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

•  Clerk endorsed - To confirm sockpuppetry. Sro23 (talk) 02:43, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
• RevengeOfTheRobots and Justjulesjustjules are technically  Unlikely but possible meat because they are editing from the same geographic area. Benprecious is  Unrelated and is very unlikely to be meat as they are editing from a different continent. The Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Charliee123 case is  Stale.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:46, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

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