Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/70.125.108.39/Archive

Report date March 25 2009, 16:53 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by BigK HeX (talk)

Editor at IP 70.125.108.39 was blocked for 2nd recent violation of WP:3RR (see: Administrators'_noticeboard/Edit_warring)

New user, Marelstrom, with no other history appears and then reverts a page back to the version that has been insisted upon by editor at IP 70.125.108.39, see:

Marelstrom has now reverted the article again, and this time cited the exact same source as the editor at IP 70.125.108.39. He is also misconstruing this source in the same way as editor at IP 70.125.108.39. The alleged sock's revert is similar to this revert by the alleged master:

Could easily be coincidental, but it could also be an attempt to subvert the block. Not requesting any rash administrative action or anything here.

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I'll note that an edit was done from IP: 24.175.143.42

The IP has no edit history, and the first edit is superficially similar to the sockmaster I'm alleging here, and is almost precisely a match for reverts done by the other sock I am alleging

BigK HeX (talk) 19:28, 25 March 2009 (UTC)


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 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * When the case was first filed, the new user had only made one edit, and I was inclined to say "co-incidence". However, since then the new account has edited a number of times, continuing the theme of the original IP. There are quite marked differences in edit summary usage, so I'm inclined to call this as WP:MEAT rather than WP:SOCK. It is interesting that the new account was created some time ago, and hasn't edited previously. Suggest that we wait to see what happens when the IP block expires, and deal with that accordingly. Mayalld (talk) 07:57, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

account blocked for a further 48 hours for edit warring. Mayalld (talk) 21:35, 26 March 2009 (UTC) Mayalld (talk) 21:35, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions