Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BryanFromPalatine/Archive

Report date September 3 2009, 13:37 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Jehochman

There has been a raft of single purpose, POV pushing accounts attacking waterboarding. Diffs:. The relevant case is Requests for arbitration/Waterboarding. These could be sock or meat puppets of the user who was banned. Jehochman Talk 13:37, 3 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by Jehochman Talk 13:37, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

Is there a user blocked or banned by ArbCom in which these socks are accounts of? None of the accounts listed are listed as blocked or banned. MuZemike 16:20, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * : The editor banned from the Waterboarding case is, believed to be a sock of . I've switched this case around accordingly. May not necessarily be him, but it doesn't seem terribly unlikely - and I doubt its a coincidence that a stack of mostly unused accounts from years ago suddenly started editing the Waterboarding page. Nathan  T 18:59, 3 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Both BryanFromPalantine and Neutral Good are . Are there any more recent socks to check against? In any event, though, all of the suspected accounts and IPs listed above are ❌ to each other - they're all on different ISP's. One of them may be a sock of Bryan or Neutral, but not all of them. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 21:37, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Why do you think they might not be him at home, work and on a mobile phone, or using an open proxy? Open proxies come and go with high velocity.  Just because an IP isn't an open proxy now doesn't mean it wasn't yesterday. Jehochman Talk 02:41, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm not an uninvolved administrator. NeutralGood and BryanfromPalantine had a history of being very good at evading checkuser. This result does not surprise me at all. Under the circumstances I'm requesting that the accounts be blocked as socks based on behavior. Jehochman Talk 02:39, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions


 * Blocked by Nuke, tagged by me. Nathan  T 02:48, 4 September 2009 (UTC)