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15 October 2014

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User has resorted to the use of sock-puppetry in an attempt to avoid the appearance of edit-warring (which I have already reported him for--Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring), but I can prove beyond a shadow of doubt that this IP address is one and the same with the person behind "fierman" (as seen on my talk page's) history.

First, shortly after I made an adjustment on Commodore 64, this fierman character came by and undid it, but then changed cloaks and walked over to my talk page to post this false accusation of my supposedly being a "sock-puppet," though, in fact, he has/is the puppet!

1. And then, after I ask him what the hell was up with that, he responds with a personal attack ("aggro," etc.) instead of just a simple explanation: 2.

Up until this point, they might've still looked like 2 people, but the bridge is when, after I made some edits at Commodore 64, he comes back and puts a false "edit-warring 'warning'" on my page using his cell-phone IP address, only to then be thinking "Oops, crap! I meant to log in as "fierman" but screwed up and used my sock puppet instead!" We can see the "OOPSIE!" changes made from 3-4 here:

3. 4. ("OOPS!") UPDATE: 5. Oh, and then I remembered to look at the contribution pages, and this one is even MORE of a clincher: 

Uhuh! So user:2001:982:EDC:1:CC06:8585:5674:E4D4 is clearly the puppet of user:fierman! Not only that, but fierman/2001:... is accusing me of being and doing everything that *he*'s actually the one doing, which is projection (trying to deflect negative attention away from oneself by attributing the problems he/she has to another person).

(Continued with and preceded by edit-warring and personal attack reports....)

75.162.179.246 (talk) 12:31, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

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 * - I don't see how this is a violation of the WP:SOCK policy as editing logged out isn't disallowed by policy. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:15, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

No, but isn't trying to look like more than one person while being disruptive against the policy? If the guy wants to make more than 4 reversions in the same day period without being accused of breaking 3RR, or if the guy wants to edit-war without being considered the same person with every reversion, doesn't using his IP address to not be caught doing more warring like that as the same person then break WP:SOCK? And if there isn't something like that, then why do you have the function of checking users against IP addresses? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.162.179.246 (talk) 13:18, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Fierman has been blocked by Bbb23 for 48 hours for edit warring while logged out. To the IP editor above, the checkuser tool cannot be used to link accounts to IPs except in extreme situations or where explicit, uncoerced consent is given. Such connections must be made through behavioral evidence available publicly. Mike V  •  Talk  03:58, 16 October 2014 (UTC)