Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Benwhale1/Archive

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advocated for XRP-related topics in the Ripple (payment protocol) article. He moved Ripple (payment protocol) to XRP Ledger (payment protocol) twice. After Benwhale1 was topic banned from cryptocurrencies, requested the same page move. While requesting a move is the correct procedure, using an IP to skirt a topic ban (instead of appealing the ban) is not. took a similar position before the topic ban.

self-identified as here and here.

The alleged sockmaster and all 3 of the above IPs use a distinctive quoting style, with spaces between quotation marks and quoted text (e.g. " XRP Ledger "). You can see examples of this quotation style in their edits and edit summaries:


 * : About the links you categorized as " spam ", they are not autopromotion nore spam (i'm not related to these websites in any way )
 * : Every new mention of the " Ripple Protocol " is now " XRP Ledger ", hence making it the most broadly used term to design the ledger.
 * : The name of ledger is now " XRP Ledger ", and not Ripple Protocol anymore, that's why I made the changes.
 * : This was my first real editing work on wikipedia, so I guess there no excuse for the mistake I made regarding the " xrp community " " spam link"

—  Newslinger  talk   08:27, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * By now the topic ban violations are too old to action, but I will warn the user. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:30, 14 September 2018 (UTC)