Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ekwos/Archive

Report date May 22 2009, 03:31 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Ed Fitzgerald

On 21 May, beginning at 22:31 and ending at 22:45, my contributions were subjected to a quick series of 36 reversions from a new IP editor, 88.0.241.168. This person was clearly running down my contribution list and undoing them one by one, with no explanation or apparent purpose other than to annoy me. At 22:53, just eight minutes later, User:Ekwos began a series of reversions to edits I had made concerning the wholesale removal of popular culture references, with the edit summary " If you are going to revert my edits personally at least leave a message and don't be an asshole". Ekwos contiued these reversions, with similar edit summaries here and here, then continued to revert my edits, but with more moderate edits summaries. It seems high likely that the attack by the IP editor was Ekwos lashing out at me for what he or she perceived to a personal attack on my part. (It wasn't, we clearly have very different ideas about popular culture references.) I would like to find out if this is the case, and if Ekwos made these unlogged edits to avoid taking responsibility for their actions, I believe that he or she should be blocked for some suitable period of time. (Apologies if this request is malformed in some way, this is the first time I've filed a SSP request.) Ed Fitzgerald t / c 03:31, 22 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by Ed Fitzgerald t / c 03:31, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * WP:DUCK seems to suffice, here. It's possible the user might have been trying to avoid scrutiny, or possible they just forgot to log in; hard to say, here, but if we assume good faith we're still left with the more pressing edit warring. – Luna Santin  (talk) 20:43, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
 * per Luna. A warning was left for the IP and no disruption has occurred since then. I don't think any further action is necessary unless this continues. If so WP:3RR would be the way to go. Icestorm815  •  Talk  03:49, 23 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions