User:Alansohn/Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Racepacket (3rd)

User:Racepacket

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer

(already blocked as a sockpuppet via previous report Suspected sock puppets/Racepacket (2nd) (already identified as a sockpuppet of Racepacket via an earlier checkuser - see Requests for checkuser/Case/Racepacket)  (already blocked as a sockpuppet of Racepacket via an earlier checkuser)
 * Suspected sockpuppets

Alansohn (talk) 16:43, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Report submission by


 * Evidence

Dane Rauschenberg - this article is near and dear to the Racepacket / Xcstar / Runreston sockpuppets, with Racepacket nominating the article for deletion, Xcstar then taking the baton and abusively editing the article including 96 of his 200+ edits to this one article alone (plus another 40 to the article's talk page) before being caught as a sockpuppet. After one brief day of non-Rauschenberg edits, User:Runreston dived in with some half of his edit history dedicated to this one article and its talk page. User:158.59.27.249 has devoted 12 of his 13 edits over the past month to this one article, while User:158.59.91.249 has devoted all six of his edits to this one article.
 * 14:31, 19 January 2008 Runreston
 * 14:30, 19 January 2008 Runreston
 * 14:29, 19 January 2008 Runreston
 * 14:25, 19 January 2008 Runreston
 * 14:19, 19 January 2008 Runreston - remove description as runner and characterize Rauschenberg as "motivational speaker", change fundraising total to $34,000 (removing sourced count of $43,000)
 * 13:52, 18 January 2008 Runreston - remove description as runner and characterize Rauschenberg as "motivational speaker", change fundraising total to $34,000 (removing sourced count of $43,000)
 * 12:43, 7 January 2008 Xcstar - remove description as runner and characterize Rauschenberg as "motivational speaker", change fundraising total to $34,000 (removing sourced count of $43,000)

The IP addresses 158.59.91.249 and 158.59.91.249 are both owned by the Arlington County Government (see this link).
 * Arlington County, Virginia
 * 19:02, 12 February 2008 158.59.91.249 (correcting Spanish name)
 * 13:50, 8 February 2008 158.59.91.249 (adding lang-es template)
 * 17:24, 18 December 2007 Racepacket (adding See also link)
 * 15:22, 5 September 2007 Racepacket (adding external link to Arlington County Democrats)


 * Air Force One
 * 15:57, 17 March 2008 Racepacket (fixing link to book author)
 * 15:56 17 March 2008 Racepacket (adding link to book author)
 * 18:11, 21 November 2007 158.59.27.249 (Presidents' commercial flights)
 * 18:10, 21 November 2007 158.59.91.249 (Question in ALL CAPS)


 * Angelica Garnett
 * 19:38, 29 July 2007 158.59.91.249 (spelling of name)
 * 19:37, 29 July 2007 158.59.91.249 (daughter's profession)
 * 19:36, 29 July 2007 158.59.91.249 (daughters' full names)
 * 19:59, 19 July 2007 158.59.27.249 (daughters' birth years)


 * Comparison of layout engines (CSS) and Comparison of web browsers
 * 19:21, 22 July 2007 158.59.91.249
 * 19:20, 22 July 2007 158.59.91.249

The syllogism of Racepacket = Xcstar = 207.91.86.2 has already been conclusively proven at Requests for checkuser/Case/Racepacket. User:Runreston was added to the family as a result of Suspected sock puppets/Racepacket (2nd).
 * Comments

Despite the previous blocks for sockpuppetry, User:Racepacket has continued use of two new User:158.59.27.249 and User:158.59.91.249, both IDs being used by Racepacket to perpetuate a monomaniacal obsession with Dane Rauschenberg.

A permanent block is clearly justified for User:Racepacket, in light of the fact that multiple blocks have been imposed for sockpuppetry and that these blocks and warnings have been so blatantly flouted.

The IP address 207.91.86.2 is available to multiple users. 207.91.86.2 edited the Dane Rauschenberg article only three times with the last substantive edit on 2007-12-07 (see this diff).
 * Comments

Other than these users disagreeing with Alansohn's editorial judgments, there is no indication that there is anything improper going on here. Please review Requests_for_comment/Alansohn to understand the context which makes this SSP submission just one more episode in his bullying of people who disagree with him. Also, perhaps a check user of 75.147.49.114 and Alansohn might be in order:
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The good news is that Neil is mediating this edit war, so we will finally put the underlying dispute to rest. 207.91.86.2 (talk) 19:39, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

I have now had a chance to review each of the diffs posted by Alansohn above, and it is clear that none of them represent any violation of Wikipedia policy. It is not as though someone was trying to get around the WP:3RR or to cast multiple votes on an issue. His repeated claim of "(removing sourced count of $43,000)" is not accurate. Please look at the diffs and you will see that Alansohn was edit warring over whether the $43,000 total should be in the first paragraph or later in the article. The 21 listed edits all appear to be improvements to the articles, and there is no reason to believe Alansohn's claim that they were made by the same person. 207.91.86.2 (talk) 21:14, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Further Comments

I see that I am listed in this "proceeding." I just want you to know that I am not the person who has been editing at 207.91.86.2. I am pleased that Neil is finally mediating this dispute. I had not planned to leave a dozen different edits to the Dane Rauschenberg article, but each time I would edit, a vandal would come along and erase my changes. So most of my edits over the past month have been to reverse that vandalism. I am prepared to discuss and collaborate with others to develop good articles, but I find the idea of someone erasing all of the changes of the group and just imposing his own will very troubling. I have since read some of the other debate on this article, and I believe that User Alansohn's (incorrect) working theory is that anyone in the Washington DC area who edits the Dane Rauschenberg article must be the same person. That is incorrect. I live in the Washington DC area, but I have found a number of edits from other people (other than myself) on the article. Good luck on sorting all of this out. 158.59.91.249 (talk) 20:46, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
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 * Conclusions