Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DHawker/Archive

Evidence submitted by Zara1709
DHawker has previously been banned from the article "Colloidal silver" (which was moved in the meantime to "Medical uses of silver".) The thread on the ANI-noticeboard is here. I had been discussing the issue with DHawker in a different thread at the noticeboard. DHawker's only contributions since then consist of some remarks at User talk:MastCell, where he was somehow complaining about the ban. He closed the discussion with the cryptic remark: It'll never 'be over', (sic) although he modified that remark 70 minutes later.

The IP 123.50.142.4 address reverted my work at the article twice (1, 2), and might have been used by him. I would not mention this here, had not the discussion on the article talk unexpectedly continued in a controversial manner and been joined by a new editor, Beaupoint. A comment on Talk:Medical uses of silver was that accounts first contribution to Wikipedia. 8 of the 17 contributions since then were to that talk page. The strongest evidence however that the account "Beaupoint" is a sockpuppet, is a comment he made on the talk page of the other editor involved in the dispute, quote:


 * "Trust me. You will never get the Immunogenics reference or anything remotely like it included in the article. This is a medical article so any references will undergo extreme scrutiny from many editors who haven't even commented yet." here

HOW can this account possibly have formed his opinion when he just started editing Wikipedia 4 days before that comment? Considering this evidence, I am 90% sure that Beaupoint is a sockpuppet of DHawker. With such a statement, the editor must have previous editing experience, and DHawker is the most likely suspect. The only way to make sure, however, is a checkUser. Zara1709 (talk) 00:53, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

CheckUser requests
Requested by Zara1709 (talk) 00:53, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * is ✅. Brandon (talk) 03:06, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions

 * Both blocked and tagged. Because of DHawker's block log, I have issued an indefinite block. NW ( Talk ) 03:10, 6 November 2009 (UTC)