Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AeronM/Archive

Report date April 1 2009, 17:10 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Montanabw (talk)

May be a single user account, but User:Buttermilk1950 appears on the scene as a new user, claiming to be only 16 years old, but has a clear working knowledge of wikipedia policies and is clearly no newcomer. Also edits only articles related to rodeo with a clear POV towards an animal rights position and creates POV forks to promote views. Use of language, style, animal rights focus, abrupt decision-aking, bullying tactics and refusal to work with others is stylistically similar to User:AeronM, who caused similar problems about a year ago.

Examples:

Buttermilk1950: Talk:Rodeo, Talk:Rodeo in the United States AeronM: Talk:Bitless bridle, Opposition to water flouridation, less clear pattern, but see also a similar alternative view of subjects at  Talk:Barefoot horses and Talk:Navicular Disease


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * I've generated a report for this case.  Syn  ergy 00:27, 2 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Considering the intersecting edits from the socalled "master" account and the socalled sock accounts are almost a year apart, and neither of the accounts listed are in anyway supporting each other in an abusive way... I really don't see anything here at all. User:AeronM is not banned or even blocked. Unless you can give me specific diffs showing similar behavior on similar articles and this behavior happening in a relatively short period of time (say less then 2 weeks apart) I'm inclined to suggest to you to assume good faith in the new user and request this case be closed. ——  nix eagle email me 03:50, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Also note that the account User:AeronM has not edited since september 2008 anyway, and the account is not banned or even blocked. Even if the two users are the same (unlikely) they are not really violating any policy so long as User:AeronM does not come back to the same subject area. ——  nix eagle email me 03:53, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

--This case doesn't warrant further action. The master account from a year ago has no restrictions (he is not blocked, or banned, or under arbitration sanction). Even if they are the same person, an account's resurrection is okay if they're sticking to one account. If you have problems with this account's behaviour, please take it to one of the admin noticeboards for attention. From a SPI point of view, there is nothing we can do. Best, Peter Symonds ( talk ) 04:15, 3 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions