Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Astrochemist/Archive

Report date July 25 2009, 22:59 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Awadewit

Three separate sections have been started by three separate editors (,, and ) at Talk:Joseph Priestley regarding the alignment of the lead image. There was a recent RfC over this dispute and these editors are returning to the issue to argue the same point. I do not know who the puppetmaster is behind this accounts.


 * First edit was to move the image at Joseph Priestley with the edit summary "corrected alignment". How could a new user know what the "correct" alignment is?
 * Second edit is a complicated post at Talk:Joseph Priestley with diffs and impeccable formatting.
 * Has made only three edits to Wikipedia, all concerning this dispute.
 * Argues to right-align the image.
 * Argues to right-align the image.


 * Username contains the word "soc".
 * The user edits the following articles, which are biographies of scientists and thinkers similar to Joseph Priestley and similar to articles edited by : James Keir, Thomas Day, John Baskerville, Francis Galton, Samuel Galton, Jr., John Whitehurst, Jonathan Stokes.
 * Fourth edit was changing the alignment of the lead image at Joseph Priestley with the edit summary "I moved the picture again", although the account had never moved the image before.
 * Argues for right-alignment of image; IP becomes Lunarsoc here
 * Argues for right-alignment of image; IP becomes Lunarsoc here


 * The user edits articles similar to . They are about similar kinds of scientists and scientific topics (generally 18th and 19th century scientists and scientific topics): John Kerr (physicist), Kerr effect, Joseph Black, Dilatometer, Cathetometer, Pneumatic trough
 * Complains about left-alignment of image
 * Complains about left-alignment of image

All three editors have used the language of "against the grain" and used the idea in their section headers, see here, here, and here.

I've never submitted anything here before, so please let me know if I need to correct anything. Thanks. Awadewit (talk) 22:59, 25 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * Notified users on their talk pages for their response, defense, or rebuttal. Madcoverboy (talk) 06:10, 26 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * - It seems that there is enough connecting at least Lunarsoc and Minored together, and also all three, from the evidence provided. Both PeterSymonds and I think there is enough evidence here to run the check, as it cannot be identified if all three or perhaps just two are sockpuppets without a checkuser. NW ( Talk ) 23:23, 25 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * ✅ Currently available technical or behavioral evidence indicates that the following accounts are related:

-- Avi (talk) 05:26, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Socks blocked/tagged; master blocked for a week and warned. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 12:37, 26 July 2009 (UTC)


 * The master account has been blocked for much more than a week - over a month in fact. See the block log at . DuncanHill (talk) 15:26, 1 August 2009 (UTC)