Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DharmaDreamer/Archive

Evidence submitted by Hamiltonstone
On about 28 February, new user User:DharmaDreamer started editing. They quickly became embroiled in confict over the British National Party article, that resulted in several warnings being posted on their talk page (but no blocks). On 11 March, they did the GA review of Taunton. On 12 March, they left this on User talk:Rodw's talk page, about the article Portishead, Somerset. On 13 March they made a single post at Talk:Portishead, Somerset responding to a month-old query about how to improve the article. That query had been left by User:Rodw. Rodw had nominated the article for GA review on 26 February. On 14 March at 8:46, Dharmadreamer retires. At 8:40 on that date, a new user account, User:LucidLinus (whose user page and talk page are yet to be created), is created, and at 10:46 makes their first edit - a (good) change at Portishead, Somerset, then does the GA review of that article, showing familiarity with the relevant policies etc. While the reviewer shows familiarity, the content of the review does not appear thorough: as an experienced reviewer I quickly noted various other issues with the article that LucidLinus has not raised. There's no disclosure of alternate accounts on either user page (well, one user page doesn't yet exist). Regards, hamiltonstone (talk) 01:58, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
Yes it was me but in accordance with WP:CLEANSTART. I placed the retired tag on the dharma dreamer user page and there were no blocks/bans/sanctions on DharmaDreamer. I hadn't used DharmaDreamer since creating LucidLinus and I wasn't editing the British National Party article. merely using it for UKGeography Wikiproject. Nevermind LucidLinus (talk) 13:21, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, fair enough. I've been alert to recent problems with sockpuppets at GAN, hence this posting. If an admin wants to review this and agrees with you, i'm happy for it to be closed and relevant talk page entries to be deleted. hamiltonstone (talk) 20:58, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Comments by other users
User:DharmaDreamer now appears to be operating under the new identity Dharmaquila. DharmaDreamer made Steeple Aston a good article nominee on 9 March 2010 but retired on 13 March. Dharmaquila registered on or before 17 March and has been editing Steeple Aston ever since. Motacilla (talk) 23:56, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Marking as closed. Per WP:CLEANSTART, this is an acceptable use of a new account. Auntie E. (talk) 03:33, 16 March 2010 (UTC)