Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Fnagaton

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Fnagaton



 * Code letter: G


 * Supporting evidence: By requesting a CheckUser against myself I hope that this request won't be blocked as "fishing" because how can I be fishing against myself? :) I'm requesting a CheckUser against myself and with User:DavidPaulHamilton because of Shalom's comments "it's unfair to DavidPaulHamilton and to Fnagaton" and "I can't firmly determine this case one way or the other". I also think it is unfair to DPH because I know I've not been using any sock account. I've actually been on holiday and unable to edit Wikipedia for a large proportion of the time DPH was editing. Given the fact that I have not been blocked due to Rlevse's comment "there is enough evidence on the not sock side" then I think it is only fair for someone with CheckUser to really double check the IP address of DPH and compare it to the IPs I have consistently been using the past year or two. I hate to think of some poor soul being unfairly blocked. Then if it turns out DPH has been using Tor or similar open proxy methods (WT:MOSNUM tends to attract a higher than average number of Tor users) then it is fair enough to keep the account blocked, but otherwise I would have to say we should assume good faith and consider that DPH was incorrectly blocked for being a sock of me. Fnagaton 17:34, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I support this request. There's certainly a cloud of suspicion around Fnagaton and DavidPaulHamilton.  Someone suggested at Suspected sock puppets/Fnagaton that checkuser might reveal editing by open proxies, which could not produce a meaningful result.  I honestly don't know what checkuser is going to find, but given the history of the surrounding dispute, and the length of discussion at the SSP case, it's worth looking into. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 04:12, 1 June 2008 (UTC)


 * They live in the same country, one using exclusively land lines, the other exclusively using a mobile device (as best I can tell). Thatcher 12:02, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Note the unblock decline here: User_talk:DavidPaulHamilton. If not socks, they're probably meat puppets. Something fishy here for sure. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 02:33, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * So given the evidence above do you now accept that DPH is most likely not a sock controlled by me? Then even if I know DPH in real life, which I don't, it is rather stretching the definition of a meat puppet just because someone appears on a talk page which has been widely discussed and linked on Wikipedia related articles and also on other sites such as Slashdot. Fnagaton 08:13, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

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