Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Pprice1

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User:Pprice1

Suspected sockpuppeteer: Pprice1 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets: Laurenwest99 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log); Film09 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log); Carolrubensteinesq (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

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Mr. Vernon (talk) 06:31, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

Puppetmaster registered their account and created article Scott Walterschied which is currently AfD; half an hour after puppetmaster posted their first comment to the AfD, the sockpuppet User:Laurenwest99 registered and has, so far, only participated in discussions related to this AfD (including the Article Rescue Squadron [1] and a "post of support" on puppetmaster's talk page [2].) Both users have repeatedly neglected to sign their comments, and both have gotten very personal in the AfD discussion (Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Scott_Walterschied - [3], [4].) Both also seem to be online/active at the same time. Could possibly be a meatpuppet, but overall style of writing leads me to believe that they are the same person.

Comments

The Scott Walterschied article has been deleted a copyright vio. I expect it's probably a meatpuppet, who was asked to register to back him up. Posting to the talk page of the other user is something only an established user would probably do imo. They're probably just friends. Majorly talk 15:25, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
While I cannot offer any further hard evidence for or against the claim, I would like to second the assertion that the user(s) in question are taking this subject very personally, and have attempted to dissuade debate against their point via ad-hominem (some of which has been extremely ironic, such as asserting that detractors are spending too much time on the issue). My point is that intense personal investment (emotional or otherwise) is a stroke in favor of the likelihood a user might employ methods like sockpuppetry to get their way. I would like to affirm that such a level of involvement is quite patently in play. - Vianello (talk) 20:31, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Adding User:Film09 to suspected sockpuppet list who recreated the Scott Walterschied article with the same content.
Also adding User:Carolrubensteinesq, a brand new user who is contesting the MfD [5] for User:Film09. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 01:11, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Carolrubensteinesq currently indef blocked for making a legal threat. LessHeard vanU (talk) 14:33, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article Scott Walterschied now deleted and salted per AfD discussion. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 17:29, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
More updates: User:Film09 tried creating Scott walterschied which has also been deleted and salted. Suspected sockpuppet User:Carolrubensteinesq does not appear to be an attorney at all [Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/User:Film09], neither does suspected sockpuppet User:Laurenwest99. I'd like to request a checkuser, but this user (or users) are, if not sockpuppets, working together, now getting around AfDs and using legal threats. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 03:27, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Going by syntax and vocabulary User:Carolrubensteinesq and User:Laurenwest99 are overwhelmingly likely to be the same user. User:Pprice1 either has a very similar linguistic/cultural/geographic background or is the same person as the other two, but trying to sound like someone else. User:Film09 is the most unlike the others but that's saying very little. I think this is all one person. If not, at the very most it's two. Gwen Gale (talk) 04:01, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

Based on the clear disruptive SPA nature of these accounts, I ran a CU.

Confirmed Pprice1 (talk · contribs) = Film09 (talk · contribs), and

Confirmed Laurenwest99 (talk · contribs) = Carolrubensteinesq (talk · contribs). There appears to be no relation between Pprice1/Film09 and Laurenwest99/Carolrubensteinesq. Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 03:50, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

User:Carolrubensteinesq was already blocked for a legal threat. I've blocked the other three. Gwen Gale (talk) 04:12, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]