Adminship Experiments Wiki:Sock puppetry

This page describes the sock puppetry policy on Adminship Experiments Wiki, and how Staff will handle sock puppetry.

What is sock puppetry?
Sock puppetry is (in simple terms) abusing two or more accounts of one person.

Prohibited Uses (that are sock puppetry)
Further describing it, we will handle cases as sock puppetry in the following cases:
 * editing with more than one account (IP address accounts, included!)
 * using another person's account
 * reviving another unused account for vandalism
 * convincing friend's to create accounts to support one side of a dispute
 * creating new account's to vandilise.

Allowed Uses (that are not sock puppetry)
These cases are not sock puppetry, and Staff will not treat it as sock puppetry. For a secondary account, please create the name implying that it is a secondary account. i.e. secondary account of "johnsmith": "johnsmithsecondary"
 * experimenting with more than one account (except for things you can do with one account)
 * alternative account (for use in case your account is compromised, and you can't access it)
 * blocking a non-real (fake) user for experimentation

How does Adminship Experiments Wiki handle sock puppetry?
Staff will block accounts suspected to be involved in sock puppetry indefinitely and remove sysopship.

Have more questions?
Please contact a bureaucrat for more questions relating to the sock puppetry policy.