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Rusty69t

04 June 2014
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Suspected sockpuppets

User:Rusty69t created the Conor Mccreedy article in 2011. There was a dispute about it reusing content from Mccreedy's Facebook page: Rusty69t claimed to be the creator and copyright holder of the content, despite having said elsewhere that they had "no relationship with the subject of the article I am merely a fan of his work". When this contradiction and apparent COI was raised in a DRN thread, the Rusty69t account was abandoned. A year later User:Nshemesh edited the article, uploading a photo of Mccreedy as his or her "own work". Since then several other SPA accounts have appeared in order to work on this article and no others (with the exception of Nshmesh working on an article draft about "Eminem Lounge", a fansite developed by the same web developers who created Mccreedy's website, and two biofuel-related edits from Biofuelfreak), adding content which seems in part to misrepresent or fabricate sources, and to state personal information with no sources. The latest SPA editor claims to be "an intern at the South Africa arts and culture council, i have been tasked to factually update the wikipedia pages of prominant South African artists" but has edited no other articles.

Although these accounts don't significantly overlap in their edits, if they are controlled by the same person or company then they are in breach of WP:SOCK guidelines for "creating an illusion of support" and (if the first had a conflict of interest) "avoiding scrutiny". McGeddon (talk) 17:08, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I am not sure how such a simple process of factually updating a wiki page has turned into what i can only describe as a strange obsession by a person calling themselves McGeddon. I have no idea what this persistent person who i can only describe as an INTERNET TROLL's motives are. I have been asked to update prominent south african artist wiki pages with factual information that is flattering to the artists therefore promoting South Africa. If that is a crime then i apologise but the fact is i have no connection to the artist apart from the country i live in and the love of art. In response to the Thandi Zambo and Thandi Moyo, they are both me, I couldn't remember my password for Zambo, which is my maiden name, so i made Moyo, which is my married name. This strange person McGeddon, who obviously is a very empty person with nothing in his life is harassing me and vandalising all my hard work. I see he does this to everyone, it's probably because he has no power in the real world. Anyway i am moving on from this project and i will have to change my username when i look at other south african artists to update their pages to save myself from harassment from this TROLL. I admit i am not an expert at editing wiki pages but instead of assistance from this McGeddon he choose the vindictive route flexing his technical knowledge. He must hide behind his computer and live out his useless existence. Regards Thandi Moyo (nee Zambo) Thandi Moyo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thandi moyo (talk • contribs) 13:06, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: We now have impersonator sock McGeddon1 replying to Thandi moyo on McGeddon's page and attacking McGeddon. This is a lot of quacking. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 07:23, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
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