Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/86.143.154.39/Archive

Report date April 18 2009, 22:33 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

This account is reversing all of Orpheus' edits that the other account did. Orpheus has noted that this is a persistent vandal who operates from a number of ips. Monkey Bounce (talk) 22:33, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Monkey Bounce (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

For background, see contributions of these users: although they're not recently active, they are the same user. Orpheus (talk) 22:52, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users
 * See also ANI report Orpheus (talk) 23:03, 18 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * These are all IP addresses from the same ISP, BT Central-Plus (British Telecom). Whether or not they are the same user is irrelevant; the ISP is dynamic and its users have absolutely no control over what IP address they will be assigned at each log-in. Wikipedia permits users to edit with only their (current) IP address as their identifier. The IP addresses are not socks, even if they have all been used by one person, and I ask that the clerk remove the sockpuppet tags from the user/user talk pages of the various IPs involved in this report. If desired, a link to the current ANI discussion. I will point out that several of the edits from these IPs have been entirely correct and should not have been reverted in the first place. Edit warring is edit warring. Risker (talk) 07:14, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

having a dynamic IP address is not against policy. Mayalld (talk) 10:18, 20 April 2009 (UTC) Mayalld (talk) 10:18, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions