Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/78.144.172.188/Archive

Report date March 8 2009, 18:55 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

possibly User:Filper01 or someone opposed to User:Filper01

I noticed them make an change to the redirection policy. Then I looked at their edit history and noticed that it was strange that they made this edit if they'd only been editing for one day. Then I noticed they'd been making similar changes to other policy talk pages like the protection policy -.
 * Evidence submitted by Clinkophonist (talk)

And then I noticed that they'd contributed to a sock puppet accusation against a user on another user's talk page, suggesting that they'd been here a while.

And they've also edited the user pages for two users, to falsely suggest that they've been banned:
 * User:Hank Ramsey was changed to claim that the user was 'indefinitely blocked'. . No ban is mentioned on the page history prior to that edit.
 * User:CheeseDreams was changed to claim that the user was 'indefinitely blocked'. . However, the previous edit in the page history suggests that the ban on this user has actually expired, the account only being blocked due to it being compromised.

So my suspicion is that 78.144.172.188 is a sockpuppet of someone who is opposed to Hank Ramsey, CheeseDreams (if this isn't Hank Ramsey), and possibly Filper01 (if this isn't the puppet master). Clinkophonist (talk) 18:55, 8 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by Clinkophonist (talk) 18:55, 8 March 2009 (UTC) F - possible block evasion, but also 'block fraud' - ie. editing user pages to claim people are blocked
 * CheckUser requests

Additional information needed: Please provide a code letter. SPCUClerkbot (talk) 18:55, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Given the socking in Requests for arbitration/CheeseDreams 2, I think a checkuser on the IP is warranted. Checkuser is not endorsed on User:Filper01, as no evidence is presented on him.  MBisanz  talk 08:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * ==  and
 * -- lucasbfr  talk 17:40, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Everything blocked.  MBisanz  talk 20:59, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * -- lucasbfr  talk 17:40, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Everything blocked.  MBisanz  talk 20:59, 9 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions