Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ben1239randy/Archive

Report date May 28 2009, 17:17 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Votestacking at Articles for deletion/The elder scrolls V shadow realm. All registered users' contribs are identical: their first edit is a keep !vote, and their second edit is to sign. IP has confirmed to be the sockmaster per. MuZemike 17:17, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by MuZemike


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

Sorry for the trouble you see, me and my little brother decided to make The elder scrolls V shadow realmarticle and well when we found that you guys wanted to deleted it my brother was a little upset and annoyed and we tryed (well i tried) to make up more convincing comments. He wanted to write a good convincing comment so i kindly typed him one on his computer and he signed it and submit it, but i wanted to sign that comment so i changed it to my signiture on my computer. We were losing the argument to whether wikipedia should delete the elder scrolls V shadow realm article but then he hatched a stuiped idea to create more than one account so he could win the argument and he didn't even bother to tell me about it. I did notice the more keeps we were getting and they were all agreeing with me and then they got put in theArbitrary section break 1 and i didn't even know it was my brother. After My brother told me of that little plan of his that didn't work, i told my brother it was sockpuppetry and i tryed to delete the keep comments that my brother made and it came back again. I hated my brother for want a stuiped thing he did. Now i have to write this. Ben1239randy (talk) 19:33, 28 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by other users
 * Also note that their signup times are virtually identical. Wikipedian999 joined today at 11:27, Marvelmenace at 11:32, and Topliner at 11:38.  Them  From  Space  17:31, 28 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Multiple times in the AFD Ben1239randy and the IP have edited each other's comments, including at least once where Ben1239randy replaced the signature of the IP with his own. - TexasAndroid (talk) 17:41, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok. We have an admission that the accounts all came from the same house, if not the same person.  I'm personally willing to accept the "Little Brother did it" excuse, this once at least.  If I was the closing admin on this, I would likely let it go with a slap on the wrist, and a note to make sure that the little brother never pulled a stunt like this again.  That said, I'm not the closing admin because 1) I'm far too tied up in the situation to even think about acting as an admin in this, and 2) I've never closed a SPI before, and really don't want to start now. :) - TexasAndroid (talk) 22:16, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Though, IMHO, the admitted puppet accounts should all be blocked. - TexasAndroid (talk) 22:18, 28 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

Pretty much what TA said above. I have blocked the listed accounts indefinitely. I have not blocked the IP or the main account, but I have issued a warning on the Ben1239's talk page. Hoping that suffices. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 21:05, 29 May 2009 (UTC)