Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/80.229.9.98/Archive

Evidence submitted by O Fenian
Kitlingra seems to be a clear sockpuppet used to evade 1RR restrictions on Troubles related articles. The account has three edits. Ignoring the first which is related to the second, the edits are solely to support the IP in edit wars while claiming to be a different editor judging by an edit summary of "Agree with anon IP". The account was inactive for over a week after the first two edits, then just under an hour after this edit was made to their talk page, Kitlingra makes this edit to support the IP in edit warring on a different article. O Fenian (talk) 22:48, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Note: I am aware that it is probably slightly unusual to file a sockpuppet report with an IP as the sockmaster and an account as the sockpuppet, however on this occasion the IP is the main account. O Fenian (talk) 23:10, 10 December 2009 (UTC)


 * "mates with similar interests, outlooks & values sometimes have access to the same computers". Obvious case of meatpuppetry then! O Fenian (talk) 23:17, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
This is cobblers - believe it or not, mates with similar interests, outlooks & values sometimes have access to the same computers...80.229.9.98 (talk) 23:15, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Cobblers indeed. Let's hope that anyone investigating this has a good look through the activities of the republican tag team and notes the efforts to obfuscate their POV-pushing agenda by pretending to be upholding procedures while making pro-terrorist edits. As for meatpuppetry, iit's actually just someone finding out about how WP pages are created from a pal and deciding to contribute to the grand project...Kitlingra (talk) 23:37, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Comments by other users
This account also approached two others for assistance. One, :User:Irvine22 has a series of blocks in this field, the other user:Wibblemeister was only set up a few days ago with no edit history. This also coincides with User:MidnightBlueMan being blocked for a month for running at least one sock, again in this general area. It may make sense to widen the investigation. -- Snowded TALK  07:45, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * Meat puppetry is still a blockable offence if both of you are supporting a point of view in a dispute (which you clearly are doing here). Do you agree to stop commenting in the same dispute? If not, I will be willing to block either one or both of you, because that is permitted when two people are acting like one person. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 08:44, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions
No action taken, as it seems that all parties have stopped communicating with each other since the report started (about 3 days to be exact). I'll note that blocks can still be issued if said disruption continues. MuZemike 03:34, 14 December 2009 (UTC)