Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Corticopia/Archive

Evidence submitted by EdJohnston
Corticopia is a long-term edit warrior on various geographical topics. He can be recognized by his POV. His IP socks can be distinguished through their location in Toronto.
 * North America - Limiting the term to the US and Canada, excluding Mexico
 * For example, User:Chipmunkdavis reverts the Continent article here to take Mexico out of North America.


 * Georgia - Denying Georgia's self identification as a European country (revert warring to assert that Georgia is in 'Eurasia' not 'Europe')
 * Turkey - Denying that Turkey is in Europe
 * Cyprus - Revert warring to put Cyprus in 'Eurasia' not 'Europe'
 * Central America - Adding Mexico to this region, while our own article on Central America does not include Mexico
 * Europe - Deleting countries he doesn't like or recognize as "European" based on personal POV.
 * Middle America - He reverts to exclude the statement that 'sometimes Colombia and Venezuela are included in Middle America.'

Corticopia was blocked nine times before he stopped using his registered account (after a one month block) in July of 2008. See this version of Corticopia's talk page for a large number of warnings from other editors.

Here are the articles I've semiprotected at various times to stop revert warring by IP socks of Corticopia: A registered editor who was willing to use one single account would be entitled to hold unusual views on geography, provided he would participate in discussions and defer to any consensus reached. It seems that Corticopia tried to get his way by edit warring, and finally hit a dead end in July 2008 when he got his second one-month block. Since then, he tries to enforce his views by reverting, using socks to avoid WP:SCRUTINY. Corticopia's status was summarized here on my talk page in July, 2009: User talk:EdJohnston/Archive 14.
 * Newly industrialized country (76.66.124.5 reverting on the subject of Europe versus Eurasia, for example here).
 * Middle America (Americas)
 * Central America
 * Geography of Mexico
 * Mesoamerica
 * North America
 * Comment

Running a checkuser would help determine whether Chipmunkdavis and Mclay1 (not yet blocked) are socks of Corticopia. If the underlying IP is based in Toronto, that would be enough to justify a block, in my opinion. All the IPs in the above list geolocate to Toronto. See Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Corticopia. I acknowledge the help of User:AlexCovarrubias in collecting some of the information above. For full disclosure, Alex has been in disputes with Corticopia in the past. Additional data can be seen at User talk:AlexCovarrubias. Corticopia has been mentioned in a previous sock case: WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Jcmenal though this is the first time Corticopia is the subject of his own sockpuppet case. EdJohnston (talk) 19:27, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Comments by other users
I just want the admin reviewing this case that some of the registered accounts above have already been confirmed as sockpuppets:
 * aka E Pluribus Anthony  Confirmed 1 Confirmed 2
 * aka Lucky Mustard Confirmed
 * aka A the 0th  Confirmed
 * aka Cogito ergo sumo Confirmed
 * aka Ex post factoid (after the sockpuppetry case, he tried to return with his acc, but was caught) Confirmed
 * aka Ixtapl Confirmed
 * aka Corticopia Confirmed puppetmaster

Please take a very careful look at the edit pattern, since that's the most solid evidence in sockpuppetry cases. I've been able to follow this user behavior for 5 years now! because he edits in some of the pages I edit, so his attitude (uncivil) and particular POVs are easily recognized. He's always the only person trying to impose his POV and when he's gone, the articles are stable.  Alex Covarrubias  ( Talk? )  23:36, 15 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Question: Given the apparent extent of the sockpuppetry, why isn't the main account indef blocked? Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:45, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
, though I don't know what will yield from this, as all accounts except for Superluminary, Chipmunkdavis, and Mclay1 are for CheckUser purposes. I don't know if they'll be able to draw a beat on underlying IPs, either, as they seem to be all over the place. –MuZemike 19:00, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Superluminary, Chipmunkdavis, and Mclay1 all look pretty unrelated to each other to me. They're all well established on separate continents. All other accounts (including Corticopia) are stale. --Deskana (talk) 18:20, 21 August 2010 (UTC)


 * No action taken based on the results. No link can be proven to Corticopia via technical evidence, and I'm not seeing much behavioural evidence to contradict. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 14:06, 27 August 2010 (UTC)