Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cosmomancer/Archive

Report date May 23 2009, 19:42 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by ThaddeusB

Recently a new user User:Arma virumque cano showed up and almost immediately started rapid fire (~1 min apart) !voting on AfDs and RfAs with no article contributions first. An AN thread was started about this behavior where he admitted "I had a login a very long time ago which I used mostly with reading but i forgot the login stuff hence this account."

At 11:30, May 23, 2009 to stopped editing for a period. At 11:45, May 23, 2009, User:Cosmomancer started editing after a long break. After tagging a few articles with plot he started rapid fire editing AfDs in much the same manner as Arma virumque cano had been doing. This included at least three AfDs also commented on by Arma (,, & ) - two of which were rationaled as "per Arma virumque cano" and the third used nearly identical language as Arma.

--ThaddeusB (talk) 19:42, 23 May 2009 (UTC)


 * See also 2nd AN thread --ThaddeusB (talk) 19:46, 23 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

I checked this based on the WP:AN thread. User:Arma virumque cano is on a pool of IPs that geolocates to a different continent, thus I would say that User:Arma virumque cano and User:Cosmomancer are ❌. However User:Cosmomancer shares an IP with and there is significant edit overlap on AfDs between the two IDs.. -- Versa geek  21:34, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions


 * blocked indefinitely as a sockpuppet of McWomble.
 * blocked for 3 days with a warning.
 * untouched; concern about his editing will need to be discussed elsewhere. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 21:53, 23 May 2009 (UTC)