Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Capetien/Archive

Report date January 7 2010, 07:47 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Puppeteer has long history of bizarre articles and edits claiming that a small tribe in Cameroon is a lost Buddhist/Hindu/Egyptian civilization, speaking a proto-Austronesian language: see WP:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive588. Nearly-identical article edit history for puppeteer and User:De bourbon-valois. Note odd use of "thank Wikipedia to respect" in this page-move vandalism by puppeteer; compare to edit summary in this unreversion of vandalism: "thank to MuffleThud 2 stop using the word of vandalism".
 * Evidence submitted by MuffledThud (talk)

Immediately following the rv of this page-move vandalism by puppeteer, Special:Contributions/88.186.39.230 only contributes once to talk page, agreeing with the long accusation of "Wikipedia censorship" here: note similarly stilted English and copious refs from Google book links. Note IP sock's claims in that edit: "Bön is the oldest spiritual tradition of Tibet. Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, recognized the Bön tradition as the fifth principal spiritual school of Tibet. A website will be soon opened in order to help Bankon to recover its own history." Note also use of reference-bombing from Google books links, then applying radical synthesis of referenced facts into far-reaching conclusions unsupported by any one of the references, similar to present recent edits by puppeteer and User:De bourbon-valois.

This effort by puppeteer and User:De bourbon-valois is presently restricted to Bankon language. Article began here as one of several attempts to document a Proto-Austronesian etymology for several Bankon words. I moved Dzoo to Bankon language, and re-wrote it using Ethnologue data, and edit warring has gone on ever since. As soon as puppeteer was warned over vandalism, User:De bourbon-valois took over adding WP:NOR and WP:SYNTHESIS. I've warned that editor Level 1, 2 and 3 over this, and early this morning following Level 3 warning to User:De bourbon-valois, puppeteer restored vandalism here with the edit summary "MuffledThud was detected in doing vandalism. He is in minority in this article, he must learn to accept the rule of the majority." MuffledThud (talk) 07:47, 7 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * I've blocked indefinitely for sockpuppetry. +Angr 12:18, 7 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

User:Capetien blocked 1 week for sock puppetry. Other sock already indefinitely blocked. –MuZemike 23:03, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Conclusions