Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Drchuckwilliams/Archive

Report date January 28 2010, 18:16 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Following User:Drchuckwilliams' re-creation of his autobiography (proof), and subsequent editing by others to assist in NPOV, a new user account has cropped up. This account is troubling in that it attempts to mimic the name of User:JamesBWatson, an editor working on Charles A. Williams III. Under that guise, User:JamesBeeWatson left this message on JamesBWatson's talk page. In addition, and in keeping with Drchuckwilliams' edits, the IP 144.118.70.111 left a deceptively-titled edit summary here to create a decidedly non-neutral edit to the Charles A. Williams III page. Steamroller Assault (talk) 18:16, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Steamroller Assault (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * In addition to the completely accurate summary by Steamroller Assault I should like to add two points. (1) 144.118.70.111 has no edits excwept to this article. Both of these edits had misleading edit summaries suggesting they were more minor edits than was in fact true ("Minor edit for clarity", which added a very large amount of material, and "Citations added", which added a small but significant amount of material other than citations). (2) JamesBeeWatson has no edits except to this article and the post (linked above) to my user talk page. JamesBWatson (talk) 07:31, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Incidentally, there is no doubt about this being an autobiography: the author of the article uses the first person several times in referring to the subject of the article: see, for example this edit, and the one linked above by Steamroller Assault. (Labelled "proof") JamesBWatson (talk) 09:24, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I think 144.118.70.111's edits may have just been an accident, rather than a true sock; either way it doesnt look like it was being used to create the impression of two people. Also, I would note that JamesBeeWatson has just been given a username block. -- Soap Talk/Contributions 21:29, 30 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Drchuckwilliams left this relevant statement on his talk page recently. Steamroller Assault (talk) 01:08, 3 February 2010 (UTC)


 * JamesBeeWatson may have been a sockpuppet, or a meatpuppet, but it really doesn't matter much, as the account has now been blocked. (Whether or not this is either kind of puppet, it is a clear username policy violation, being intentionally confusingly similar to an existing username.) JamesBWatson (talk) 12:23, 3 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Self-endorsing for CheckUser attention. I have doubts that JamesBeeWatson is Drchuckwilliams. However, I am curious as to who JamesBeeWatson is, as this was clearly an account created to harass JamesBWatson. –MuZemike 00:43, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ JamesBeeWatson = Drchuckwilliams. Dominic·t 07:02, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Tipteoty blocked the master, both are now tagged. ~ Amory ( u •  t  •  c ) 15:04, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Conclusions