Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Newshounddog

Newshounddog



 * Code letter: G


 * Supporting evidence: I copy the following from User talk:Alison. She has not responded. Yechiel (Shalom) Editor review 22:19, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

I know checkuser is not for fishing, but...I would like you to consider checking this user:



Here's what happened: Newshounddog filed Suspected sock puppets/Rreagan007 alleging that Rreagan007 edited while logged out from an IP address that has recent talk page warnings. I determined that this was, in fact, correct, but that no violation of policy occurred. However, I noticed that Newshounddog's contribution history lasted a grand total of 27 minutes and was exclusively limited to filing this SSP case against Rreagan007. I honestly doubt that this is a legitimate new user. I wonder if it might be someone involved in a content dispute, but I have not found an obvious candidate. I know it's evil to wonder about such things, but still...

I have a real problem allowing any user to throw an accusation against another user without being accountable on his own username. If Newshounddog made this accusation in bad faith - certainly a possibility given the fact that Rreagan007 did not actually violate policy, and explained his actions to my satisfaction - then Newshounddog needs to be held accountable on his main account, and that main account needss to explain why it resorted to such underhanded tactics instead of just flat out making the accusation fairly. I know this is a really unusual request, but it's been bothering me for a couple of days, and I finally decided to come forward and ask. Yechiel (Shalom) 23:01, 23 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Part of the reason that is that it is often difficult to impossible.  Here, the user apparently edited from a public terminal at a university.  I can find nothing definitive to tie the user to anyone else in the university.  It could have been someone from the community walking into the campus library to avoid using their usual and traceable IP.  Checkuser answers the question "Does A=B" fairly well; the question "Who is A" is often impossible to answer without more info. Thatcher 01:40, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for explaining that, Thatcher. You can file this one in the archives. Yechiel (Shalom) 19:52, 13 July 2008 (UTC)