Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Brothers in Arms/Archive

Report date February 4 2009, 11:25 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Chrisieboy (talk)

User appears to be making edits with this IP address to avoid 3RR; see, for instance, edit history and summaries at Legitimacy (political).

11:04, 2 February 2009 17:23, 2 February 2009 08:56, 3 February 2009 05:48, 4 February 2009 10:32, 4 February 2009


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

looks pretty compelling to me. Blocking without checkuser might be appropriate.&mdash;Kww(talk) 12:30, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users

Requested by Chrisieboy (talk) 11:25, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests
 * Please provide diffs of the edit warring. -- lucasbfr  talk 10:02, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Diffs potentially evidence of edit warring by user logged out, but note that 3RR not breached. Mayalld (talk) 13:36, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

please provide a code letter if you would like the CU request considered Mayalld (talk) 09:13, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

diffs moved to evidence section Mayalld (talk) 13:36, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

I've never seen checkuser results quite like that before. Other checkusers, help? Do you think we should just ignore the strange and confusing data? I guess it's possible it's faked, but I've never actually seen it be faked before. --Deskana (talk) 18:11, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's quite bizarre. I know I've heard what you're referring to somewhere in the mailing lists. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 22:32, 5 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * ✅. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 22:32, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Named account blocked for 24 hours, IP blocked for a week. Tiptoety  talk 22:36, 5 February 2009 (UTC)