Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/FootballPhil/Archive

Evidence submitted by User:Aunt Entropy
Almost no account overlap between named accounts: When TCWTMB was created, FootballPhil quit editing almost entirely, only logging in to continue a conversation on Talk:Cornish people, only to start back when TCWTMB was blocked, the first edit being a complaint about that block on AN. The IP is admittedly TCWTMB's. Auntie E. (talk) 17:26, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

I can assure you I am not using another account under the name of Football Phil. I don't know how I am supposed to prove this, but i can tell you I despise football, and I'm not called Phil. If you have any questions I'll be happy to answer them. The cows want their milk back (talk) 17:51, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

I've only edited articles about Cornwall. That's how I came across The Cows, who has just started doing the same. This accusation really is nothing more than a fishing attempt and there's absolutely no justification in it whatsoever. It is quite ridiculous. I cannot see any link between me and the Cows account. I am not The Cows. FootballPhil (talk) 18:11, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by Auntie E. (talk) 17:26, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

per request by Aunt Entropy at Wikipedia talk:Sockpuppet investigations/Archives/Archive7 SpitfireTally-ho! 18:24, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

I recommend blocking all the accounts involved, regards, SpitfireTally-ho! 18:24, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 20:40, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by DuncanHill
Similar pattern of edits, particularly with regard to the constituent countries of the UK, edit summaries in disputes are also similar. DuncanHill (talk) 21:48, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

I can't understand this at all. How could I have created another account, if I was already blocked? I understand that Painsey does have a similar user-name to me, but it must be a coincidence. Why would I create another account which has a similar name to my first one anyway? Wouldn't that just make it completely obvious and cause me to receive acusations from other users, as I have recieved here? After looking at the contributions of the other users, I have not made many similar edits, and besides, is it against the law for two people to be interested in the same thing? Bainseyy (talk) 18:20, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Certainly one can evade blocks. –MuZemike 18:22, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes I am aware that some users do that, but the point I was making was that if I was to do this, and I havn't by the way, I would probably have tried to not use a name which is almost exactly the same as my original one. Bainseyy (talk) 20:16, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Oh, you were referring to my first point, sorry. Bainseyy (talk) 22:02, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by DuncanHill (talk) 21:48, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

– I'm kind of leaning towards concluding socking based on the behavioral evidence alone, but I'm not 100% on that, especially given the previous SPI. Second, I'm quite sure Bainseyy and Painsey are the same person. Finally, given Painsey's contribs (contrib #2 came almost a month after contrib #1), there's a possibility of sleeper socks aboot. –MuZemike 01:00, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Hers fold  (t/a/c) 23:21, 18 March 2010 (UTC)


 * You're pretty much right...
 * ✅ that the following are the same:
 * ✅ that the following are the same:
 * Very that those two groups are alll the same
 * Slightly less but still quite that all of the above are : they're on the same ISP, but FP is on a slightly different geographic net. The computer setup also looks similar.
 * Didn't see any other accounts; the only ones still unblocked are Bainsey and Painsey. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 23:36, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ that the following are the same:
 * Very that those two groups are alll the same
 * Slightly less but still quite that all of the above are : they're on the same ISP, but FP is on a slightly different geographic net. The computer setup also looks similar.
 * Didn't see any other accounts; the only ones still unblocked are Bainsey and Painsey. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 23:36, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Slightly less but still quite that all of the above are : they're on the same ISP, but FP is on a slightly different geographic net. The computer setup also looks similar.
 * Didn't see any other accounts; the only ones still unblocked are Bainsey and Painsey. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 23:36, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Have you just ignorerd everything that I wrote above? Bainseyy (talk) 14:08, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Blocked and tagged. Remembering the previous socks pleas for innocence, I'm also starting to hear some quacking. –MuZemike 19:39, 19 March 2010 (UTC)