Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Blippy/Archive

Report date June 29 2009, 12:47 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * Evidence submitted by KillerChihuahua

Blippy edits Australian articles, reincarnation articles and Ian Stevenson; suddenly Burberry southsea (sounds Brit, doesn't it?) showed today and edited Reincarnation research until he got 3RR warned and then started "supporting Blippy's consensus version" on Ian Stevenson. Call me cynical, but its looks fishy to me. Burberry is certainly not a newbie; looks like he might be a sock of Blippy. OTOH, I'm not all that good at identifying socks unless they're Gastrich or Awbrey; so I submit here. Evidence is more or less Special:Contributions/Burberry_southsea en toto. KillerChihuahua?!? 12:47, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Ummmm... sock puppet eh? Not entirely sure what that means, and I'm not entirely clear on how to defend myself. I'm assuming those with better understandings will resolve this happily - although if there's anything in particular I can do to help, please let me know - I'm still fairly inexperienced with WP. Addressing the, uh, accusation (?) above, KC has edited the Stevenson page and one of the pages I started recently on the Berry Street charity (thanks BTW - I forgot how do do those Ref things properly at the end). I'm not sure if this implies that he too is a sock puppet? It sounds kind of cute though... maybe the kind of thing a killer chihuahua might attack!! Fair enough. Anyway if there's anything serious going on here I'd appreciate a heads up before anything drastic happens. Cheers, Blippy (talk) 12:57, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by suspected parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

Hi, just wondering how long these things normally take? I noticed that Burberry southsea seems to have vanished - and only recently joined - so it seems KC's intuitions are reasonably well tuned. I wrote to Bs but haven't seen a response yet - I guess they may be busy elsewhere... or scared off! Anyway I'm assuming this all comes down to IP logs etc. but will be happier when it's resolved. Cheers, Blippy (talk) 10:26, 30 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm not Blippy nor 207.58.129.52. I am editing from 213.253.135.119 and the entry on Verbal's page was me, but there seems to be some dispute whether this IP was ever used by Davkal . In fact, there seems to be some dispute about whether, or to what extent, Davkal ever existed or whether the name is simply (now) a patsy which certain groups regularly wheel out to ban editors and IPs from Wikipedia. Google davkal and you'll see what I mean (E.Dramatica).Burberry southsea (talk) 11:46, 30 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh! Welcome back Burberry southsea!  I'd begun to think you'd vanished into the ether.  I'm disappointed to hear you're not me, there goes that extra cash opportunity... Cheers, Blippy (talk) 12:18, 30 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Not much happening here... oh and a minor inaccuracy in the evidence above, I haven't edited reincarnation pages. Cheers, Blippy (talk) 03:14, 4 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by other users
 * I added an IP that supported and made the same edits, for completeness. Verbal   chat  13:04, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Adding a second IP that just "warned" me regarding this article, apparently an IP used by banned editor . Verbal   chat  13:06, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * dif of warning KillerChihuahua?!? 13:20, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions
 * I see why KC is suspicious, but I do not think there is sufficient evidence of sockpuppetry occurring here to warrant any administrative action. Burberry southsea admitted to being the one who issued the "warning" to Verbal via 213.253.135.119 (which might I add should be done using your account Burberry southsea, next time). But that does not really equal abusive sockpuppetry. As for Blippy, his edits and Burberry southsea are indeed similar but that alone does not mean they are the same person. Because of this, I am going to close this case with taken. Feel free to refile should other concerns be raised.  Tiptoety  talk 19:35, 7 July 2009 (UTC)