Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Austin Tsar444/Archive

Report date October 11 2009, 12:59 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Persistent vandalism of Perry Park, Kentucky, including db-self and db-author tags, and a sockpuppet accusation on User talk:Austin Tsar 555. Please see this edit, this article history page, and this article talk history page for details. — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 12:59, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by  — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims. The reason I created the account User:Austin Tsar 555 is beacause I forgot my password to my account User:Austin Tsar444. I was not aware there was a rule against creating more than one account unless your previous accounts are retired until now. I have since retired User:Austin Tsar444 by using my account User:Austin Tsar 555, which I did write down the password for. I understand that I am also accused of vandalism. The only reason I created the first account User:Austin Tsar444 was to create a page for Perry Park, Kentucky, however due to certain reasons my dream of the perfect page for Perry Park was not created. I have since realized that I could not source all that information. Beacause I believe the page Perry Park, Kentucky will not ever be what I intended it to be, as author of the page I wish I could delete in on good faith. I believe this will be for the better of Perry Park and Wikipedia until some one who can source the information arrives and creates the article. However since the actual page I created it on is unaccessible and retired I would understand it if the article stays. My only wish is to get this sockpuppetry case over with and retire this account. I will then start a new account on a clean slate and contribute towards a better Wikipedia. I apologize for any rude behavior I may have had in the past, and understand why this is happening. Please forgive me and I hope I will be aquitted of any charges.--Austin Tsar 555 (talk) 19:22, 11 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by other users

The two accounts are obviously connected to each other. I'm hesitant to block any of the accounts. I don't see abuse/disruption from the accounts either. What I do see is a new user, so I would prefer to help them rather than blocking them. I think we should just assume good faith. -- Kanonkas : Talk  16:04, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * I blocked the puppet-master for one week for a history of disruptive editing and edit-warring on Perry Park, Kentucky. Blatant Socks were blocked indefinitely. I find the "retirement" and "forgetting" of passwords highly dubious as they supposedly happened merely one day before the editor continued to edit-war and post misleading speedy deletion templates on the page in question. IronGargoyle (talk) 19:43, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I should also note that the sock and sockmaster have alternated edits in the history of Perry Park, Kentucky, again casting significant doubt on the retirement contention. IronGargoyle (talk) 19:55, 11 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions

-- Kanonkas : Talk  16:04, 11 October 2009 (UTC)