Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/The Middle East Conflict Man

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The Middle East Conflict Man


Immediately after the blocking of the former, Carroteater began continuing where TMECM left off, with the same pattern of edits: a minute-by-minute persistent campaign against socialism, and specifically, adding images of Ghadaffi, Hussein, Mugabe et al to the Socialism article. At the moment, they are both banned, but I'd like to know if there's any other information that can help shed light on them. TMECM claims the anon is Carroteater, and the anon has been up to the same sort of stuff. Times seem to dovetail with TMECM (exception: make of 1 what you will); the anon is an older editor, but note that TMECM's userpage went up damn fast for a newbie! --Nema Fakei 17:00, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Clarification: Carroteater is blocked indefinitely as an obvious sock of TMECM, TMECM is blocked for 48 hours, 24 for 3RR from Katefan plus a further 24 I added for attempting to evade his block. With respect to Nema, I'm not sure if it's worth wasting time on this. So far the only person to protest my judgement that the sockpuppetry is "obvious" (in the explicit sense used by point 2 of the policy at the top of this page) is TMECM himself. --Sam Blanning(talk) 17:25, 21 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Fooltocry seems to be taking off when Carroteater117 was banned. The same pattern with inserting odd images into the Socialism] article. // Liftarn 08:24, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Also blocked indefinitely as obvious. Seriously, the contributions are identical - maybe two different editors could collude to add inflammatory pictures (though meatpuppetry of that sort is just as much subverting policy as sockpuppetry), but adding the same text?  Please. --Sam Blanning(talk) 09:50, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Hm. More updates: The anon here chose the name Michael40, but posted to User Talk:The Middle East Conflict Man as Joel (imitation of or subconscious influence by Joelito?). This  diff suggests that 130.216.191.184, who posted a supporting message on TMECM's talk page is also 60.234.157.64, and is therefore also "the vandal known as carroteater117", as 130.216.191.184 himself puts it. --Nema Fakei 11:25, 22 May 2006 (UTC)


 * TMECM is no newbie, he have been editing on no:. He was banned there, migrated to nn:, banned there aswell and then showing up here. ZorroIII 15:48, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, good point.--Nema Fakei 16:52, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Sam is right about them being obvious; however, due to the number of socks, I'll check and block the IP if possible. Essjay (  Talk  •  Connect  )  06:52, 23 May 2006 (UTC)


 * He has a few good arguments on his talk page . Please take a look at them, mr. Essjay. And please check which country each of the IP addresses are in. --80.239.107.30 10:45, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Mr 80.239.107.30, it appears you find his arguments so convincing that you feel free to remove the sockpuppeteer warning from his userpage. Bear in mind that this is considered vandalism - even if you are TMECM. --Nema Fakei 11:25, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Two new to chek up, Nerdyned22 and 3.1415. Both have the same edit style 3.1415 added a Pol Pot immage to the Sociamism article and Nerdyned22 also added simmilar pictures One of them may be a copycat as their edits appear to be close in time. // Liftarn

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The Middle East Conflict Man


A bunch of new suspected sock or meat puppets. The same edit style with inserting offensive images in the Socialism article. In eddit somments some of them said "no im not mid east conflict man" and "I'm not mid eats conflict man either!". Statements that both seems odd and hard to believe. // Liftarn 13:26, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * How a user name like User:Liftarn is a homo isn't autoblocked already I cannot understand. - Hahnch e  n 15:29, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * All just as obvious as the last lot, I just went ahead and blocked per point 2 of the policy at the top. --Sam Blanning(talk) 15:42, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * User:Lights out!'s contribs suggest that TMECM has realised that edits to articles other than Socialism can go unnoticed.--Nema Fakei 12:16, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

It actually appears to be an impersonator from the University of Auckland, New Zealand (TMECM is from Norway); I can find no evidence of either IP being an open proxy. TMECM's only known IP is still blocked (I blocked it for a month a week or so ago); the New Zealand IP can't be blocked because it is a shared IP. A complaint to the University of Auckland might be in order, however. Essjay (  Talk  •  Connect  )  19:43, 4 June 2006 (UTC) ''The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the Request for checkuser. Please do not modify it. Subsequent requests related to this user should be made below, in a new section.''