User:Doug Coldwell/timetable

Could I get a second opinion on this possible sock puppetry? There appears to be here several instances where User:RandomCritic edits on days when User:Wareh does not and vice versa. In the past Wareh would support a view and RandonCritic would back him up and vice versa. I looked into the possibility of sock puppetry and it appeared something was going on. I asked them about this and they completely denied they were sock puppets of each other. RandomCritic saved this conversation in his Archive 5. I have made a one year chart below to show the various instances where Wareh and RandomCritic appear to be the same person. It seems to me to be far too coincidental where Wareh edits on many days where RandomCritic does not and vice versa. Also there are many instances where they are off the same days, many times two and three and four days in a row - indicating the same person! Wareh is in the United States in the Eastern Time Zone and supposedly RandomCritic is in Europe someplace, Wareh's indications are England. One day I find quite interesting is February 25, 2009, where Wareh made 80 edits and the closest he got to RandomCritic's edit times was an hour away. You would think there would be a few within a minute or even exactly with RandomCritic's. It turns out there are no times exactly where they match exactly in their edit times one year below. You would think this would happen, since both are very active editors. However IF they are the same editor, then of course there would never be an exact time match. Notice how many times they flip-flop where one edits a day and the other does not on exactly the same day. Also interesting is that not only is there several times when BOTH are off the same days, but that between May 8 and 14  and June 15 and 20 they BOTH took off a week at the same time. Coincidence? A billion to one chance!

Interesting to note as well is that the BOTH took off March 1 (2009) and have not returned yet. I'll bet the farm they will BOTH return on the same day - probably sometime between March 5th and the 15th. Whatever day it is, they will BOTH show up on the same day or within a day of each other, when they start editing again in a few days AS LONG AS they (Wareh) is not tipped off by being notified of these talk pages. AND they both will edit from the Eastern Time Zone. Any bets? Now is 10 A.M. March 3, 2009 ET --Doug Coldwell talk 15:00, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

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This doesn't look remarkable to me at all. They might be socks, but their editing doesn't patterns don't look especially sock-like. I think they're in the same time zone, but RandomCritic sometimes stays up&mdash;this has always been true all the way back to 2006 (I looked). And their supposedly shared "vacation" is not remarkable. RC took a three week break in May, and Wareh was editing during it, and just happened to not edit for some days&mdash;not surprising. More importantly, they have edited more-or-less simultaneously on several occassions, which we would expect non-socks to do sometimes.

Again, they might be socks, but their editing times are not unusual-looking. If they are socks, they're probably using the same computer at times because of near-simultaneous editing. This would show up on CU. However, I don't see enough evidence to run CU. If you have more evidence, feel free to post it at Sockpuppet investigations. Cool Hand Luke 15:11, 3 March 2009 (UTC)