Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Regarding Ted Kennedy/Evidence

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Summary of content issues
The ArbCom is not being asked to resolve content issues. However, in order to place the conduct issues in perspective, there have been four content issues that have been the subject of the edit wars:
 * 1)  Inclusion of a link to the 'fatboy.cc' attack web site in the Ted Kennedy article.
 * 2)  Inclusion of a paragraph on a waitress harassment incident in the Ted Kennedy article.
 * 3)  Inclusion of a lengthy discussion of the William Kennedy Smith rape trial in the Ted Kennedy article.
 * 4)  Inclusion of a link to the 'fatboy.cc' web site in the Rosemary Kennedy article.

List of IP addresses in question
During July 2005 and August 2005, the following anonymous IP addresses were used in the Ted Kennedy edit wars. The principal anonymous IP address used was.

Other addresses used by this editor (or by other anonymous editors showing a similar pattern of behavior) include:

I will let the ArbCom use its judgment as to whether they should be treated as sockpuppets. Robert McClenon 21:37, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

18 July 2005
First insertion of link to 'fatboy.cc' web site in Ted Kennedy article. Other editors begin deleting it.

19 July 2005

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=prev&oldid=19181297
 * Personal attack in edit summary, comparing his opponents to Chairman Mao (due to deletion of link)

24 July 2005
Ted Kennedy article page-protected. Kelly Martin begins mediation.

30 July 2005
Edit wars begin on Rosemary Kennedy page, including repeated insertion of link to 'fatboy.cc' site.

31 July 2005
Kelly Martin concludes that the consensus of established Wikipedians is against the incliusion of the link, and that any subsequent additions should be reverted, possibly as simple vandalism. Page is unprotected.

6 August 2005

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=20420643&oldid=20420590
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=20425753&oldid=20421592
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=20425990&oldid=20425753
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=20427348&oldid=20427097
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=20428316&oldid=20427752
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=20430509&oldid=20428643
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=20430509&oldid=20428643
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=20431653&oldid=20431409
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=20433008&oldid=20432943
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=20433202&oldid=20433046


 * A series of ten reverts from various IP addresses on 6 August 2005, with hostile edit summaries and accusations of vandalism, and a reference to the 3RR rule applied to a signed-in editor, showing an apparent intention of gaming the system via sockpuppets


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=20421592&oldid=20420643
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress&diff=prev&oldid=20426909
 * Filing a report of Vandalism in Progress due to removal of paragraph whose encyclopedic value was questioned, thus labeling a content dispute as vandalism

14 August 2005

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=20997043&oldid=20996895
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=20998739&oldid=20997043
 * Labeling a revert as vandalism. Edit summary was rv vandalism, please do not remove, use dispute resolution methods, when dispute resolution (medation) had already been tried and failed


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=21000791&oldid=21000411
 * Revert war continues

15 August 2005

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=21037404&oldid=21016621
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=21073706&oldid=21043092
 * Continued pattern of accusations of vandalism

17 August 2005

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Agiantman&diff=21246750&oldid=21246572
 * Argument that a user conduct RfC is a "lynching"


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Agiantman&diff=21252284&oldid=21252219
 * Admitted first-time anonymous user being used to create appearance of consensus on user conduct RfC, taunting

18 August

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Agiantman&diff=21294174&oldid=21293043
 * Taunting


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Agiantman&diff=21261437&oldid=21257237
 * Claims that a user conduct RfC is a "lynching"


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Agiantman&diff=21265009&oldid=21264773
 * Taunting, accusations of "witch hunt by left-leaning Democrats" for use of user conduct RfC


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Agiantman&diff=21264924&oldid=21264791
 * Incivility, accusations


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Agiantman&diff=21253448&oldid=21253169
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Agiantman&diff=21253448&oldid=21253169
 * Altering the Description portion and the Statement of the Dispute portion of a user conduct RfC, inserting material that should have been in an Outside View or Response, thus making the dispute resolution process difficult by making it hard to determine what was written by which editor

19 August 2005

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Agiantman&diff=21340016&oldid=21336962
 * Taunting and incivility in RfC

24 August 2005 and early 25 August 2005

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rosemary_Kennedy&diff=21762572&oldid=21750270
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rosemary_Kennedy&diff=21764464&oldid=21763951
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rosemary_Kennedy&diff=21764985&oldid=21764762
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rosemary_Kennedy&diff=21765477&oldid=21765246
 * Four reverts in 24-hour period (one on 25 August 2005 GMT)


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection&diff=21762341&oldid=21759922
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection&diff=21763254&oldid=21762823
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection&diff=21765180&oldid=21764698
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection&diff=21766247&oldid=21765451
 * Four requests for page protection in this revert war with accusations of POV pushing

2 September 2005

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=22377568&oldid=22314212
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=22378329&oldid=22378208
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=22379347&oldid=22379241
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=22379498&oldid=22379406
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=22420902&oldid=22403661
 * An edit to restore non-encyclopedic material against consensus, followed by four reverts, and allegations of vandalism

11 September 2005

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=23018702&oldid=22950181
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=22950133&oldid=22928662
 * Vandalism, with one of the most vile attacks ever seen in an edit summary. (This might be a different anonymous user.  This episode is extreme even by the standards of the anonymous editors in question.  However, the hatred directed against User:Gamaliel is consistent with the anonymous editors in question.)

22 September 2005

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=23716762&oldid=23700978
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=23724222&oldid=23717300
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=23725678&oldid=23724801
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=23726136&oldid=23725914
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=23728088&oldid=23727710
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=23728743&oldid=23728520
 * An edit to restore non-encyclopedic material against consensus, followed by five reverts and hostile edit summaries, and pattern showing that User:Labgal and User:FishingGuy99 appear to be sockpuppets


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Labgal
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/FishingGuy99
 * Edit histories of sockpuppets


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