User talk:Korax1214/Blocked

 This is an archive page showing the last version of my talk page when I was blocked, due to being falsely identified with a Canadian user on the basis of similarity (which unfortunately doesn't actually prove ''anything &mdash; ref. the article on Ramsey Theory, assuming there is one). It is an historical document and for this reason must not be further edited. Thank you. ''

Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets Trebor (talk) 12:13, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

 (N.B. I made a mistake in the above; I meant Historical, not Inactive. Now back to the archived page. -- Korax1214 (talk) 15:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)) 


 * "the contribution pattern matches"? For goodness' sake, go look up "coincidence" in a dictionary (a real one, such as the OED; Wiktionary suffers from the same probs as the rest of this site).  Also look up Ramsey Theory/chaos theory; similarity is bound to arise in things such as this from their very natures, not because it actually means anything. -- 217.171.129.75 (talk) 13:56, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

 (Another mistake of mine; chaos theory deals with self-similarity, not similarty between different things. Oh, well. -- Korax1214 (talk) 15:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)) 


 * Note to reviewing admin: this user is believe to be a sockpuppet of temporarily blocked User:CanuckAnthropologist. ANI thread. Trebor (talk) 17:36, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
 * More nonsense. How can I possibly be a sockpuppet of a Canadian user when my IP clearly belongs to a UK ISP?  Don't you people even know how to use WHOIS? -- 217.171.129.71 (talk) 20:54, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I've heard there are one or two Canadians living in London. Gwen Gale (talk) 01:31, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

'' Note to anyone reading this: Is there any way to "defang" the unblock below, so it gives the proper appearance but doesn't cause this page to fall into the Unblock Requests cat? -- Korax1214 (talk) 16:07, 9 June 2008 (UTC)) ''


 * Ref. the above, a bit of digging into the contribs pages turns up [this] edit by User:CanuckAnthropologist, done less than an hour before [this] edit by User:Korax1214, and if (as I suspect) the former turns out to have been done from a Canadian IP, this proves that this block was a false positive, unless perhaps one of these two has some means of transport which can go over 3,000 MPH. -- 217.171.129.74 (talk) 13:29, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * And comparing those two users' Contribs pages, it's clear that this block is a false positive in any case; User:Korax1214 goes back to 7 April 2007, and User:CanuckAnthropologist only to 23 April 2008; so although it's possible (just not true) that the latter is a sockpuppet of the former, the reverse is not possible (unless this user has a time machine as well as his superfast vehicle already mentioned). -- 217.171.129.74 (talk) 13:40, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Why are the admins editing this page flouting the guidelines?
Or does the requirement to not post libellous statements, not apply to admins?

This user is not a sockpuppet but a suspected sockpuppet &mdash; a very different thing, which has its own category. At present the "case" for sockpuppetry appears mainly to rest on similarity between editing patterns (look up Ramsey theory, people) and on ignoring the fact that these two users are on widely-separated continents (which could easily be confirmed by doing a WHOIS on ther respective IP addresses, which sadly only admins can do).

If this "case" is proven (which it won't be, since one of the axioms of logic is that no false statement can be proven true by any valid argument), then the "suspected" can be deleted; but until then, doing so would be libel. -- 217.171.129.74 (talk) 13:56, 9 June 2008