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Sockpuppet investigation
This was a unwarranted complaint by another editor engaged in an edit war with me. A Wikipedia administrator declined to open this investigation. Zeke1999 (talk) 12:04, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

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Keep up the good work
I appreciate your hard effort. It is becoming very difficult to edit any articles on counter-terrorism subjects without being met by threats. Bachcell (talk) 15:45, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Canvassing Warning
It appears that you have been canvassing—leaving messages on a biased choice of users' talk pages to notify them of an ongoing community decision, debate, or vote—in order to influence Frank Gaffney. While friendly notices are allowed, they should be limited and nonpartisan in distribution and should reflect a neutral point of view. Please do not post notices which are indiscriminately cross-posted, which espouse a certain point of view or side of a debate, or which are selectively sent only to those who are believed to hold the same opinion as you. Remember to respect Wikipedia's principle of consensus-building by allowing decisions to reflect the prevailing opinion among the community at large. Thank you.

Blocked
OK, enough. I am persuaded that the repeated accusations of sockpuppetry have merit, and that you are indeed abusing multiple accounts; this combines with tendentious editing and other problematic behaviour from this account and a general impression of using Wikipedia as a battleground. I have blocked you. Guy (Help!) 11:20, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Zeke1999 (talk) 11:49, 31 October 2015 (UTC)


 * As the editor to whom Zeke1999 is referring, above, I can, first, confirm that the issue that led to this situation was essentially limited to two articles (Frank Gaffney and Center for Security Policy), and, second, is unlikely to be repeated as both articles have since generated a high degree of editor scrutiny. I can also confirm that no one has made any allegations of tendentious behavior by the user account Zeke1999 and that he has accurately summarized the various procedural steps he took to identify an interlocutor to support his edits. As far as the sockpuppet charge that was the reason for his block, while three editors (myself included) believed there was strong behavioral similarity between Zeke1999 and one of the many IP editors that flock to these articles, a checkuser returned a negative finding. While I don't know if a block can be lifted, I can say that if it is lifted, it is probably not likely to create any real disruption. LavaBaron (talk) 09:47, 3 November 2015 (UTC)