Wikipedia:No soliciting of cliques
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 | This page in a nutshell: Please do not solicit friends and family to support you. By all means, introduce people to the site, but don't get them to solicit for you in debates. |
Wikipedia gets hundreds of new users every day, and sometimes they have been solicited to participate in debates (e.g. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Game (game).
This leads to accusations that a user is a sock puppet, which is not always true - just because a new user knows about Wikipedia markup or Wikipedia policy and culture, it does not mean they are a sockpuppet - a friend could well have solicited them to participate here. Or more likely they could have introduced their friend to the site, taught them everything they need to know.
Basically, it is wrong to solicit meatpuppets here - so don't do it.