Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Canadaman1960/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets




Evidence submitted by SMcCandlish
Virtually all edits to the page Kevin Trudeau, from 23:04, 29 November 2009 to present (16:45, 2 December 2009) has been either edit warring by this user or one of his/her/its IP sockpuppets in violation of WP:V, WP:NPA, WP:NPOV and WP:BLP, or various editors reverting these edits only to have them reinserted, usually moments later. Editor has been warned on own talk page, on article's talk page and in edit summaries but will not stop, and has escalated to using an increasing number of IP puppets. Surely will run out of IP addresses eventually. The edits made by the IPs and the registered user are essentially identical, including wild accusations of a world-wide "network" and other conspiracy-theory-related stuff, as well as repeated misuse of "See also" to insert particular accusations, e.g. of "quackery" and of using "Ponzi schemes" (key words that keep recurring in most or all of these disputed edits). Some edits vary a little bit (e.g. inclusion of additional link terms and dropping of others, or inclusion of non-reliable "sources" like blogs), but clearly all are either by the same user or by meatpuppets; the former seems more likely. At any rate, checkuser will help ascertain that these are likely to be the same person. —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93; ‹(-¿-)› 17:25, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

CheckUser requests
Requested by —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93; ‹(-¿-)› 17:25, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Behavioral evidence clearly indicates that these IPs are Canadaman1960. No CU necessary. MuZemike 08:04, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions
I'm not going to extend the block at this time, as the user is already under a block for edit-warring and was using socks before the fact. Report again if continued. MuZemike 08:06, 3 December 2009 (UTC)