Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Prspiring/Archive

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Prior SSP or RFCU cases may exist for this user:

• Suspected sock puppets/Prspiring

Suspected sockpuppets

• 82.32.186.236 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 77.3.89.175 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 77.3.76.142 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• TedSherrell (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))

Evidence submitted by Totnesmartin (talk)

Users editing solely to enter refrences to {{Paul Spiring}} in various articles - and in fact to create that article. Diffs (although all three sets of contribs are related to the puppetry):

• Prspiring - PS-related edits to Nailsea school, Bristol City FC and Paul Spiring.
• TedSherell - created Paul Spiring article, adds PS related material to Tom Høyem, Bristol City FC and Ipplepen
• 77.3.76.142 - 24 edits to PS, plus PS-related edits to Reuben Spiring and Nailsea school
• 77.3.89.175:Admits to being PS here. Added PS to list of educators here, more PS-related edits to Nailsea school, Tom Høyem, Bristol City and 24 edits to PS article

82.32.186.236: Nailsea school, admits to being prspiring.

psrspiring has also made edits to Paul Spiring's areas of interest, eg Joseph Merrick. However these are solely a conflict of interest issue and my puny earthling brain can't do two things at once.

Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

Apologies for the apparent conflict of interests. I am a new user and I am still trying to familiarise myself with the Wikipedia protocols and systems. The edit to the page on Paul Spiring was limited to the upload of a photograph where I hold the copyright. I thought that this would be a useful addition. However, I am happy to remove the item if it constitutes a conflict of interests. Your comments are appreciated and I shall consult the guidance and instruction notes more carefully before making future contributions. User:prspiring

Comments by other users

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Looking at Paul Spiring, the subject appears to be notable, or there is at least an assertion of notability. The editor(s) could be a newbie who recently registered an account and might forget to login. This might be two people who work together. Has anybody tried counseling them? The {{welcome}} and {{uw-coi}} templates might be helpful, as well as a friendly word on their talk page. We should never start out by blocking somebody until we have first tried to make them aware of our standards of behavior. Jehochman ^Talk 02:55, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  Clerk note: imported from Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Prspiring -- lucasbfr ^talk 22:00, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

•   Relisted bot missed Mayalld (talk) 15:30, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

  Delisted There is some lack of clarity here. Clearly the alleged master has edited whilst logged out. It is less clear whether the second account is also him. There is no clear evidence, however, that anybody engaged in editing with multiple accounts with malicious intent. I think we put this down to a new editor getting it wrong, and move on. Mayalld (talk) 11:48, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This case has been marked as closed. It has been archived automatically.

Mayalld (talk) 11:48, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]