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Filed: 04:15, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

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A while back, an article was created on Australian journalist Ed O'Loughlin. Since the article was basically a coat rack for tendentious criticism of a living person, Eleland nominated it for deletion. That Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ed O'Loughlin was disrupted by several IP addresses as well as a few new users. User:C1818 has only 6 edits, 5 of which are to the AFD nomination. User:Georgeaz has only 7 edits, and the third is to the AFD. When multiple "new" users start tendentiously commenting on AFDs, sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry is the obvious conclusion. The article was deleted anyway. It was later re-created by User:Adon Emett, who has made few or no edits outside of this topic. Much of the material (though not all) was identical to the previous version. I nominated the article for deletion, and, lo and behold, User:Mongoosed edits the AFD as his very first edit. I suspect rampant sockpuppetry on the subject and I need someone to help sort it out. *** Crotalus *** 04:15, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Note: - adding Adjuro (talk · contribs) - Alison ❤ 05:50, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Unlikely - any of the named editors, although most of them have also been logging out to comment, etc - Alison ❤ 04:52, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
I've been looking through their edit history and some of the accounts do seem to be single purpose sock puppets. Fnagaton 11:13, 17 January 2008 (UTC)


I only got involved earlier this week when the article was created for the second time. Here's some background information:
As you look at this stuff, be sure to check out any deleted contributions.
Here's a list of additional accounts for you to take a look at as potential sock- or meat-puppets:
Here are IPs that have been involved:
--A. B. (talk) 12:43, 17 January 2008 (UTC)


See also Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Avraham (2nd) which covers the same ground. I don't think Avraham is a puppeteer but some of these other users appear on that list. Perhaps these lists should be combined. --A. B. (talk) 12:57, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Clerk note: I moved this case back to Outstanding because some material was added after it was moved to completed. I don't think that additional information was provided at the time of analysis. -JodyB talk 22:21, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Declined These appear to be single-purpose throwaway accounts with no evidence of long-term or significant disruption outside of the AfD. Thatcher 22:14, 28 January 2008 (UTC)