Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cypher55/Archive

Report date February 25 2009, 03:34 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Cypher55 registered account after the creation of Ryan Goldstein with the purpose of getting it deleted. This person defaced my sandbox page, sandbox, to put it up for deletion. In the real deletion review, Cypher55 admitted to creating the account to hide his second identity.
 * Evidence submitted by Professional Internet User (talk)

"Because this is a relatively controversial topic, I do not want my other account (which I've had registered here for several years) marred by participation here."

This deletion review was hijacked by IP address users puppetting his responses. One such IP, 158.130.22.248, translates to the University of Pennsylvania, where the subject of the article, Ryan Goldstein, currently attends. This user is violating WP:SPA and Sock_puppetry to avoid showing scrutiny of his bias regarding the situation by creating this additional account.

Professional Internet User (talk) 03:34, 25 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

Check WP:MULTIPLE: "There are some legitimate reasons for forming multiple accounts ... contributors using their real name may wish to use a pseudonymous account for contributions they do not want their real name to be associated with." As mentioned earlier, that article is controversial, and I do not want my other account, to which my real name is associated, to be linked to that controversy. Simple as that.

Further, I have no idea who is linked with those IP address edits. I give full permission for WP:CHECKUSER to be used, since I know that none of those IPs are associated with me in any way. The UPenn IP claim has nothing to do with sockpuppets and should be disregarded in this discussion.

It appears that Professional Internet User is just angry that the article he wrote was deleted and fully protected (by a current oversight arbitrator, Risker). If you check his contributions, he has only made one edit to one article in the history of his account here, and that was two years ago. His sockpuppet claim is baseless.

Cypher55 (talk) 04:56, 26 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by other users

Whilst Cypher55 has undoubtedly taken a somewhat combative attitude during the AFD that this case is founded on, and whilst he has undoubtedly be "abrasive" in his dealings with the complainant, it is also the case that the use of this SPA in raising an AFD is allowed by WP:SOCK. I would not expect the account to be used otherwise, and this edit is rather out of order, but it would appear to have been a one off error in not using the normal account. I am afraid that even though the complainant is A PROFESSIONAL WHO HOLDS MANY IMPORTANT INTERNET CERTIFICATIONS, I can find nothing to substantiate a breach of WP:SOCK here. Mayalld (talk) 15:14, 26 February 2009 (UTC) Mayalld (talk) 15:14, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * reformatted - please don't mess the headers up. Mayalld (talk) 09:06, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * This case, at first glance, isn't making a claim that Cypher55 is running socks, but is a claim that Cypher55 is a sock of some unidentified user. An SPI case which includes only one user is pretty much doomed to be delisted! Cypher55 has admitted that he has another account, but states that this account is used here because this is a controversial subject. WP:SOCK allows for this. If your complaint is not that Cypher55 is a sock, but that he is running socks, please add details of the alleged IP socks under the appropriate heading above. Mayalld (talk) 09:06, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions