Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/71.184.49.28/Archive

Report date March 17 2009, 05:09 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Evenmoremotor (talk)Evenmoremotor


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

I'm not convinced in any way that this is a sock puppet issue. The first IP edited on one day, and the traceroute shows the IP at pool-72-74-209-246.bstnma.east.verizon.net. The second IP also edited within a 7 hour period on one day. It traceroutes back to the same general area, p13-0-0.lcr-02.bstnma.verizon-gni.net. That the posting editor has had disputes with both IP numbers over the same general articles doesn't imply a sock puppet issue, but more like someone on either a dynamic IP area, or editing from perhaps home, work, school or library internet connections. There has been no indication of attempts at representing different persons, different viewpoints, or tag team editing. The poster is quite new to Wikipedia and may not have a clear understanding of policies and guidelines. My experience has been that he can be a little overzealous in literal applications and misapplications. I don't believe this is a sock puppet case and an investigation is not warranted based on anything I've seen outside of disputes, which don't really apply here. Wildhartlivie (talk) 07:03, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users
 * Also, the poster has failed to notify either IP of the sock puppet accusation beyond posting such accusation in edit summaries  in an edit-war which seems to me, from observation and experience, to be a factor of not clearly understanding all policies and guidelines and how they apply. Wildhartlivie (talk) 09:46, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

IP editors change IPs. A fact of life, not abusive sockpuppetry. Mayalld (talk) 09:51, 17 March 2009 (UTC) Mayalld (talk) 09:53, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions