Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Astrohoundy/Archive

21 July 2013

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Tiburon89's very first edit was a continuation of an edit war pursued by Astrohoundy and then 98.229.19.237. The edit summary was "Again, I fail to see how the source is being misrepresented." The word "Again" shows that this new editor was already active on the page. Going back six minutes earlier, the IP editor wrote on my talk page that it was a "shared IP", that they were "not Astrohoundy", and that they intended to create a separate account. The account Tiburon89 was created two minutes later, then the first edit (the same exact reversion) was made four minutes after that. Astrohoundy says he resides in Massachusetts, and the IP geolocates to Massachusetts. The combination of common location and identical actions leads me to think that Tiburon89 was recruited by Astrohoundy as a meat puppet, or that Astrohoundy created the new account as a sockpuppet. I'm asking for checkuser to establish whether Tiburon89 and Astrohoundy work from the same IP address, a piece of evidence which is central to the case. Binksternet (talk) 05:27, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

My Response to the Charge
I neither created nor told the user who apparently now has the username Tiburon89 to edit that page. We are merely sharing an IP for a couple of days, which we will do from time to time, and he/she was unfamiliar with Wikipedia's editing policy. If you wish for me to prove that we are two different individuals, we will gladly post from different IP addresses at the same time in a couple of days. I certainly did not recruit him/her to be my sycophant. Astrohoundy (talk) 15:13, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Tiburon89's response
I already told Binksternet that I was the user from a Massachusetts' IP that was editing false accusations of rape and I said I'd create an account. I'm not Astrohoundy, but a different person entirely, but we were working from the same IP address. I'm not a "meat" puppet of his, nor do we commonly work from the same IP address. Binksternet sent me a message on my talk page when I was using the IP address that you all can see that told me to get an account. Just check the talk page of the IP address, 98.229.19.237. I was already editing the article as the IP, of course I'm going to edit the article I was previously editing.Tiburon89 (talk) (UTC)


 * The relevant part of Sock puppetry says that sockpuppetry includes "Persuading friends or acquaintances to create accounts for the purpose of supporting one side of a dispute..." It appears to me as if Tiburon89 was recruited to support one side of a dispute. Binksternet (talk) 15:33, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  17:45, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅ that Tiburon89 is a sock of Astrohoundy. No comment on the given IP address. WilliamH (talk) 05:46, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocking master and IP for 48 hours and indeffing sock. There was more than just simply sharing the same IP as suggested. Closing.