Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dkspartan1/Archive

12 October 2014

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The first sock above is obvious per this diff, where Dkspartan1 signs the sock's edit.

All socks appeared suddenly as edit warriors to restore Dkspartan1's deletions using the same arguments. Dkspartan1 was using these socks abusively to harass User:Thebrycepeake, following him around and deleting his properly sourced content. The socks also deleted edits by myself, even after I had renamed the heading for that content.

Dkspartan1 and socks are opposed by these editors:

The only editor helping Dkspartan1 is:
 * , whose username and contribution history indicate a possible conflict of interest regarding the The Catholic University of America (CUA).

These are the articles in question. Recent edit warring by the socks is evident:
 * Butte College: Revision history
 * Guilford College: Revision history
 * Michigan State University: Revision history
 * Talk:Michigan State University: Revision history
 * Morgellons: Revision history
 * Talk:Morgellons: Revision history

Dkspartan1 also deleted the same content on these articles, but I don't see any sock activity there: For this SPI, the content dispute is not the issue. (The content had already been discussed at other venues.) Using multiple accounts to appear as if more editors are editing, especially in an edit war over several articles, is definitely not allowed. That's the issue here. -- Brangifer (talk) 01:56, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Arizona State University: Revision history
 * The Catholic University of America: Revision history
 * Since a CU investigation won't work with these types of usernames, please consider the DUCK behavior. -- Brangifer (talk) 03:52, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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As noted below, there's no sock, all of the edits are mine. I just forget to sign in all the time. I'm ignorant about IPv6, I thought the same IP addy would show up every time. I wasn't paying attention to that. My mistake, I'll become diligent about signing in. Cheers.Dkspartan1 (talk) 23:07, 17 October 2014 (UTC)


 * So you're basically admitting that you have been edit warring against everyone else. That's simply wrong! Stop it. You really should be blocked for a week or two so you can think about your disruptive behavior, and all those socks should be blocked for a few days. Each and every edit by all these accounts was made by you, and they all count against you, one solitary person edit warring so much. Sheesh! Nobody's buying your censorship of properly sourced content. -- Brangifer (talk) 07:55, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Only one account, the rest are IPv6 addressess. --  DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  21:55, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Dkspartan1 would be well-advised to be more careful about logging in, to avoid possible problems. However, there is no sockpuppetry. I have not investigated the suggestion of edit-warring, which is not what this page is for. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:15, 20 October 2014 (UTC)c