Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AssegaiAli/Archive

Report date May 16 2009, 13:23 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by User:PericlesofAthens

I have a strong feeling this guy is a sockpuppet who is here for a single issue: BC/AD dating conventions in articles with BCE/CE dating conventions.

User:Mountwolseley recently changed the dating convention in Han Dynasty, diff here. His user page claims that he is "a College Chemistry and General Science teacher."

Shortly after that, an anonymous IP edited Han Dynasty, diff here. I geolocated the IP and found out it is from the United Kingdom. This IP also recently edited List of Chinese inventions in changing a date to BC/AD convention, diff here, followed just minutes after by User:Mountwolseley, diff here.

Strangely, just after the anonymous IP edit, a User:AssegaiAli left a message on the talk page in support of the recent change to BC/AD dating convention in Han Dynasty. The diff is here. His user page states that "My main field of expertise is science particularly chemistry in which I got a PhD in 1996" and "I came to the UK after I finished university and my first job in London".

It's all too much to be coincidence. So I did some snooping around and found that User:Mountwolseley and User:AssegaiAli have been supporting each other on the talk page for Minoan eruption in regards to BC/AD dating, in this section here.

I hope someone will consider the case.-- Pericles of Athens  Talk 13:23, 16 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

Minoan Eruption was a 4 months ago but a strikingly similar case. Actually the complainant changed the convention in Han Dynasty last month. This is a case of WP:OWN. I am not a sock puppet. My contributions are all in good faith, and only coincide with mountwolseley on a tiny proportion of occasions. The reason for the convergence between us is that we are work colleagues. I am not aware of that being against policy in any way. A check will show that there are very few articles (about 1%) that we both collaborate on and hardly any to do with dating either.AssegaiAli (talk) 09:01, 17 May 2009 (UTC) (UTC)
 * Comments by other users

Requested by Pericles of Athens  Talk 13:23, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

Additional information needed: Please provide a code letter. SPCUClerkbot (talk) 13:23, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Done by the reporter. -- Kanonkas : Talk  15:31, 18 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Personally I find the work colleagues explanation unconvincing - perhaps if the editing pattern was primarily science related, but the range of coincident contribs is pretty broad. Here is the report. Endorsed for CU attention. Just in case, accused parties are advised to read WP:MEAT. Nathan  T 15:46, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * This is a dynamic range so I can't be 100% sure, but this is very likely a single person. No comment on the IP. -- Luk  talk 16:11, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions


 * Master blocked for three days with a warning.
 * Sock blocked and tagged.
 * IP left alone. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 21:41, 19 May 2009 (UTC)