Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Jkuhner

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Jkuhner



 * Code letter: G
 * Supporting evidence: Identical edits during an edit war here, and here, and here.
 * Code letter: G
 * Supporting evidence: Identical edits during an edit war here, and here, and here.
 * Supporting evidence: Identical edits during an edit war here, and here, and here.

These edits reinforce a previous history going back many months (years?) of edit warring and/or tendentious pursuit of POV regarding the "pushing" of stories related to Barak Obama's cultural and religious heritage.

USER:Andyvphil is a tendentious WP:single purpose account and has been pursuing this agenda at several other Wikipedia articles, and on "antiwikipedia" here, and here. Andyvphil has been extensively criticized and many complaints made for heavily POV'd edits in support of Insight magazine editor Jeffrey T. Kuhner's POV (evidenced by Kuhner as "jkuhner" and "publishtruth") at the Insight magazine article and most everywhere else on Wikipedia where attempts to "paint" Sen. Obama as a "muslim" and to "paint" Sen. Clinton as the "accuser" are in play. See related article at United States journalism scandals (site of the most recent edit war), and review the antiwiki history above.

The Andyvphil, jkuhner, publishtruth and 70.13.183.189 accounts all show identical, single issue politically tendentious editing and talk page patterns.

Kuhner's "Insight magazine" is owned by Sun Myung Moon, and a number of Moon's Unification Church members on Wikipedia (including User:Steve Dufour and USER:Ed Poor) have joined frequently to (a) "push" UC media POVs and to (b) tendentiously seek to mitigate and/or censor information that is unflattering to Rev. Moon, the Unification Church, or it's media holdings. Given the precisely timed coordination of the most recent edit war involving User:Andyvphil and User:70.13.183.189, I believe that off-wiki coordination between andyvphil and one or more of the other users/accounts I have listed almost certainly had to have taken place.

All of these accounts (to one degree or another) have been trying to coatrack the Insight story angle on the "madrassah" smear, and other discredited story-scandals. This is a longstanding problem on Wikipedia at a number of sites related to both the political scandal(s) and the organizations responsible for them -- media properties owned by the Unification Church (owner of Insight and The Washington Times via News World Communications). WNDL42 (talk) 18:41, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

see related incident/report here WNDL42 (talk) 00:09, 5 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The Jkuhner and publishtruth accounts were really only active for one day, 3 months ago; even if there were the same person, there's no reason to check due to the staleness of the edits. That leaves us with Andyvphil and the IP, and we generally don't confirm IP addresses except for serious disruption that can't be addressed by other means.  Often, edit warring and 3RR violations by an IP and an editor will be taken as "obvious" by a blocking admin; if something comes up and you can't get admin action without checkuser confirmation, relist for reconsideration. Thatcher 18:20, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

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