User:Shock Brigade Harvester Boris/Scibaby (Radio edit)

Many Wikipedians have made comments about Scibaby without having actually checked the history. Errors have been repeated so often that they become accepted as fact. (No doubt it comes as a shock that Wikipedians would assert something without careful evaluation.) For those without the inclination to dig into the background I've assembled a timeline in my user space. Following are the main facts; for more details see here.

Sequence of accounts

 * The first known account was User:Slaphappie, registered on 19 July 2006.


 * User:Obedium was the second account, registered a week and a half later on 29 July 2006.


 * About a month later came the third account, User:Scibaby, on 2 September 2006.

Start of global warming edits

 * The Scibaby group made its first global warming related edit on 23 September 2007 by User:Scibaby to the article James Hansen.

Blocking

 * Admin User:Madman blocked Obedium for 3RR on 25 September.


 * A few hours later User:Stephan Schulz filed a sockpuppet report on Scibaby and Obedium which User:Lar acted upon with the conclusion "Is a check actually needed here? Per WP:DUCK as obvious."


 * Admin User:William M. Connolley indefinitely blocked Slaphappie and Scibaby for sockpuppetry on 25 September 2007.

Dispelling some misconceptions

 * Scibaby did not begin socking in response to being blocked. He had already been socking for over a year when he was blocked.


 * The initial block was not made by a member of the "global warming cabal" but by User:Madman, an uninvolved admin.


 * User:Lar made the initial determination of sockpuppetry. This administrator does not reflexively support those editing climate articles from the perspective of the  scientific consensus on the issue.