Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Ausbuild

The following discussion is an archived debate of the case of suspected sockpuppetry. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page. All edits should go to the talk page of this case. If you are seeing this page as a result of an attempt to open a new case of sockpuppetry of the same user, read this for detailed instructions.

[edit] User:Ausbuild

Suspected sockpuppeteer

Ausbuild (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

CanberraStudent (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
OzTruth (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
DicksonCollege (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
203.22.237.33 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
124.176.58.195 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
203.51.24.253 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Report submission by

Golden Wattle ^talk 00:33, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Evidence

My accusation is of meatpuppet rather than necessarily sock puppet although I am not sure. The evidence is based on a single focus on an otherwise rather obscure candidate for the forthcoming Australian general election : Troy Williams (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs). The single focus of their edits is clear in each of their contributions history and also through the talk page comments - see current version of the page [1] and also the talk page history.--Golden Wattle ^talk 00:33, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

There are a number of claims to be students working on research assignments from CanberraStudent (1) and CanberraStudent (2). Also Ausbuild which contradicts his earlier assertion to User:Garion96 that he worked in Williams's office and is also contradicted in part by the article creation date of the article - September 2006 [2] which is not congruent with the Australian academic year (= calendar year) - ie not an assignment task. Three people seem conscientiously to be seeking references: Canberra Student's very first edit to wikipedia DicksonCollege has a lot of enthusiasm for referencing in his 3rd edit (all to the same talk page) and 1st day on the wikipedia and OzTruth also has been doing some googling. --Golden Wattle ^talk 01:07, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Comments

Conclusions

• It's pretty clear that these accounts are sockpuppets or meatpuppets, but since the Troy Williams article was deleted for a copyvio, I'm going to leave the accounts unblocked in the hope that some of them might learn how to create an article that adheres to Wikipedia policies. They seem to have stopped editing, but if disruptive editing starts again, that would be grounds for a substantial block. --Akhilleus (talk) 21:28, 22 August 2007 (UTC)