User talk:WegianWarrior/Lightbringer

Scope: To highlight patterns made by Lightbringer and his army of socks.

Caveat: Just because someone shows one or several of these patterns in their edits don't make them a sock of Lightbringer. Contact an Admin, and/or ask for a CheckUser.

General on sockpuppets
From WP:SOCK
 * Not surprisingly, sock puppet accounts usually show much greater familiarity with Wikipedia and its editing process than most newcomers. They are more likely to use edit summaries, immediately join in edit wars, or participate vocally in procedures like Articles for deletion or Requests for adminship as part of their first few edits.
 * If it appears that sock puppets are being used as part of an edit war or to distort the outcome of a vote or survey, one possible rule of thumb is the 100-edit guideline. This suggests that any account with more than 100 edits is presumed not to be a sock puppet. - but see below.

Username
It seems that Lightbringer prefers to select names that will either: However, many of the recognised sockpuppets used by Lightbrigner does not fall into these categories (see for instance Basil Rathbone, Anna2005 and Vitamin a).
 * hightlight his POV (for instance Sunday Service (refering to church services, usually held on sundays), Freemasonry is permanently condemned and The Brotherhood (refering to the anti-masonic book by Stephen Knight)
 * falsy portray him as a mason (for instance User:PM GL PA, identifying himselfas a "Past Master of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania" (PMGLPA) (a designation which does not exist))
 * or otherwise tie into masonry (for instance Anderson12, probaly refering to James Anderson and his "The Constitutions of the Free-Masons").

Claims
It seems that most of Lightbringers claims are the usuall run-of-the-mill anti mason material one can find everywhere online these days. Mostly however, he seems to believe that freemasonry is satanism (list edits to support)

Hang ups
Lightbringer and his socks frequently makes the demand that editors who identifies as masons must be banned from editing any articles related to masonry. (,, add more)

Lightbringer seems to believe that every editor which do not agree with his rather extreme POV must be a mason. (List edits to support)

Lately, Lightbringer and his socks have been pushing a section on masonic secrets, that seems to be a dead giveaway as to who is hideing behind a newbie username

Other patterns
Lightbringer and his socks either don't use edit summaries at all, or uses them to push his POV.

Lightbringer and his socks seems to use open proxies these days.

Lightbringer seems to be in the habit of making demands of admins (list edits to support), and accusing them of being masons when they do not meet these (list edits to support).

Lightbringer and his socks don't seem to realise that there is a preview function, or he/they might ignore it to 'fill up' the edit history to confuscate what he/they are up to. Or he / they might just have a hard timy spotting typos and deciding what they really want to say.

Lightbringer and his socks tends to claim that other editors (whom he will always claim are masons) communicate and presumable conspire against him via "backchannel" (, add more)

Lightbringer and his socks often label comments on the fact that they are suspected socks as 'personal attacks' (, add more)

Lightbringer and his socks often label reverts of his 'prefered version' as 'vandalism' (,, , , , , , and many more)

Postscript
An up to date list of suspected sockpuppets of Lightbringer can be found here. Be aware that Lightbringer, and most other people, will almost instantly remove the tags on his userpage if he sees them.