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Supporting evidence: There is quite an issue with meatpuppetry at
Lyme disease; an advocacy group has been coordinating efforts to advance their agenda in the article (see
this AN/I thread, for example). The above are accounts which have been used in the last month or so to solely to advance this agenda. Some are blocked (e.g. Shine a lite). I suspect these are mostly meatpuppets, based on the off-wiki recruiting, but would like to ask a checkuser to see if any of the accounts are technically matched as out-and-out socks - for example, the new account Roohub echoes the blocked user Foundinkualalumpur fairly closely. MastCellTalk01:26, 6 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Unrelated to anyone else. I have to say, I really don't think CU is useful here. This is clearly an orchestrated meatpuppetry effort -- CU can't add anything to behavioural evidence. For the same reason, preventative measures are not going to work.
Sam Korn(smoddy)09:40, 16 July 2008 (UTC)reply
I tend to agree; unfortunately it's been tough to get consistent oversight from uninvolved admins that can keep up with the pace of meatpuppet account creation. Given some of the
documented consequences for people who have run afoul of pressure groups on this issue, it's not an appealing prospect. Would you like to be volunteered? :) MastCellTalk16:42, 16 July 2008 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the Request for checkuser. Please do not modify it. Subsequent requests related to this user should be made above, in a new section.
If you are creating a new request about this user, please add it to the top of the page, above this notice. Don't forget to add {{Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Shine a lite}} to the checkuser page
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The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a
Request for checkuser. Please do not modify it.
Supporting evidence: There is quite an issue with meatpuppetry at
Lyme disease; an advocacy group has been coordinating efforts to advance their agenda in the article (see
this AN/I thread, for example). The above are accounts which have been used in the last month or so to solely to advance this agenda. Some are blocked (e.g. Shine a lite). I suspect these are mostly meatpuppets, based on the off-wiki recruiting, but would like to ask a checkuser to see if any of the accounts are technically matched as out-and-out socks - for example, the new account Roohub echoes the blocked user Foundinkualalumpur fairly closely. MastCellTalk01:26, 6 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Unrelated to anyone else. I have to say, I really don't think CU is useful here. This is clearly an orchestrated meatpuppetry effort -- CU can't add anything to behavioural evidence. For the same reason, preventative measures are not going to work.
Sam Korn(smoddy)09:40, 16 July 2008 (UTC)reply
I tend to agree; unfortunately it's been tough to get consistent oversight from uninvolved admins that can keep up with the pace of meatpuppet account creation. Given some of the
documented consequences for people who have run afoul of pressure groups on this issue, it's not an appealing prospect. Would you like to be volunteered? :) MastCellTalk16:42, 16 July 2008 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the Request for checkuser. Please do not modify it. Subsequent requests related to this user should be made above, in a new section.