Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CarlHewitt/Archive

Evidence submitted by Piet Delport
See: Requests for arbitration/Carl Hewitt

The above IP addresses (in addition to 71.198.220.76, banned a month ago) were involved in similar-looking controversial edits to these articles:



—Piet Delport (talk) 2009-10-21 01:29

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * Based on user agents the assessment of the filer is quite accurate. All the IPs are very all the same person. Can't say anything as for the connection to CarlHewitt though. Brandon (talk) 21:55, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions
Not like it matters much at this point, but User:CarlHewitt is now indefinitely blocked. The IPs are clearly his socks. However, since the IPs are hopping all over the place, blocking would not work here. Page protection (via WP:RFPP) may be the only viable course of admin action here if they continue the disruption. MuZemike 22:43, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

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Evidence submitted by 69.228.170.24
Gödel's incompleteness theorems is currently semi-protected due to edit warring and talk page disruption from multiple Hewitt-related IP's. 99.29.247.230 in particular seems to be a somewhat long-term address that has been pushing Hewittcruft into several articles. Talk:Gödel's incompleteness theorems/Archive 8 contains a recent flare-up where Hewitt's socks distract everyone with an extended debate about Ludwig Wittgenstein. All of the above IP's posted to it. 98.210.236.39 is also currently active. I think the addresses that have been in use for more than a few months should get longish-term blocks.

Arbitration enforcement and ANI

 * Requests for arbitration/Carl Hewitt I believe this log to be somewhat incomplete since various enforcement actions over the course of time have not been logged.


 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive597 incident report from a few months ago that summarizes some past history

Articles and talkpages affected:
I am giving generally just 1 diff per article since it's all the same stuff we've seen before. I haven't looked at them carefully so I haven't necessarily picked the most egregious. While some of the diffs are old, the IP's all still have recent activity. Most are only on Talk:Gödel's incompleteness theorems but some are spread further out. Although I didn't file this with a CU request, it occurs to me he's used sleeper socks before (User:Madmediamaven) so you might want to checkuser the IP's for socking and sleeper creation.


 * talk:History_of_the_Scheme_programming_language
 * Denotational semantics and its talkpage
 * Criticism of Google
 * Actor model  (that edit made today)
 * Paraconsistent logic
 * Erlang_(programming_language) User Untalker (not obviously a sock but who knows) inserts promotion of Hewitt's work sourced to somebody's post on an internet forum, IP sock contests a later reversion, defends Hewitt prmotion by saying the forum poster "seems to know the history and it's hard to find independent published references".
 * Lambda calculus
 * Talk:History of the Scheme programming language More self promotion.
 * History of the Scheme programming language POV injection.
 * Gödel's incompleteness theorems Considerable edit warring at this article leading to current semi-protection per User:CBM's request for arbitration enforcement.
 * This conversation got me pretty annoyed; he gets into an argument with another researcher who has to be nice to him. There are other venues for that.
 * Talk:Actor model, nice taunt mentioned in ANI report above. That diff is 2.5 months old but the IP is editing the same article as recently as earlier today.


 * He has a Knol rant "Corruption of Wikipedia". obviously not subject to wikipedia sanctions, but I thought you might like it anyway.

69.228.170.24 (talk) 05:21, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Activity after this filing
69.228.170.24 (talk) 02:31, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Sock whines at Talk:Gödel's incompleteness theorems, reverted by Gavia Immer,, sock re-reverts. A new sock adds a dumb comment the next day.

I archived the thread and new sock restores. This latest sock is also promoting Hewitt at Actor model. 69.228.170.24 (talk) 21:08, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Opened community ban proposal at WP:ANI, since moved by Pcap to WP:AN. 69.228.170.24 (talk) 03:55, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Comments by other users

 * Various admins have needed to semiprotect Logic programming a few times over the past three years due to IPs that were promoting Hewitt's papers. See the protection log. EdJohnston (talk) 22:12, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
There's nothing else to really do here. The IPs are all over the place, so rangeblocking is impossible. Blocking IPs would turn into a game of Whack-A-Mole. The only other actions that could be taken is article semi-protection (in which a couple already are). –MuZemike 21:56, 9 May 2010 (UTC)