Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/122.x.x.x/Archive

31 January 2012

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I would like to clear my name having been accused by or  of being a sockpuppet of these accounts 122.x.x.x (talk) 15:37, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

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You have been accused of meat puppetry, not sock puppetry -- Snowded TALK  14:06, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

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I'm sorry, but checkusers generally do not accept "name clearing" requests. TN X Man 16:24, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Marking for close. TN X Man  21:27, 31 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Actually, as the "sockmaster" has had what he claims is his personal static IP address tagged repeatedly as a sock I'm wondering if it would be less disruptive to just run the checkuser, see . Elen of the Roads (talk) 15:50, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, according to policy, the check should not be run ("On some Wikimedia projects, an editor's IP addresses may be checked upon his or her request, especially to prove innocence against a sockpuppet allegation. Such requests are not accepted on the English Wikipedia.") (emphasis mine). As far as the other accounts go, I would need some evidence that there is abusive sockpuppetry going on before running any checks. TN X Man  19:18, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I do think that's an oddity in our policy. However, unless one of the parties at ANI comes over and requests the check, I would have to agree with you. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 19:38, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I always thought it had said "generally" not accepted (hence my initial comment) -it was only upon re-reading it today that I saw the flat denial. Had this changed recently?
 * In any case, you're correct -unless evidence is produced, there's nothing we can do here. TN X Man  19:46, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, CheckUser should not be used to prove one's innocence because you are asking it to prove a negative, which is fallacious. Secondly, we work on the basis that people are innocent until proven guilty, not guilty until innocence is established. WilliamH (talk) 20:42, 2 February 2012 (UTC)