Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/George Pelltier/Archive

Report date July 31 2009, 01:31 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Sceptre

The evidence is mostly circumstantial, but the actions of the two accounts are very suspect. Basically, George has been disrupting the Thirteen (House) article for months, slowly adding maintainance tags but giving no reason for their existence. So, obviously, after a few incidents, I give him a level 4 warning. However, not more than 20 hours later, a dormant account, Aurush, surfaces and reapplies the tag with no rationale. So I revert, and decide to do a bit of digging. Their activities are suspect, if only for the fact that they seem to be focused on two things: Canada, and "fancruft". Also, there seems to be a recurrent relation to (see Suspected sock puppets/MiltonP Ottawa (2nd)), but that account is too stale to be checked. Sceptre (talk) 01:31, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Re Dominic: I would lean on saying it was a MiltonP sock on the basis Milton has the prior history, but it's really moot seeing as moth Milton and Mymeat are blocked. Thank you anyway. Sceptre (talk) 20:03, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, misread, so I'll change it slightly: I reckon Mymeat is a sock-or-meatpuppet of MiltonP, this much is obvious. So, per WP:Requests for arbitration/Regarding Ted Kennedy, there's no need to fret. Sceptre (talk) 20:17, 4 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by Sceptre (talk) 01:31, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

While the behavioral evidence is iffy, especially when looking at the previous SPI, Aurush has only had one edit since April. All other edits would be considered stale; as a result, there is very little CheckUser can do with only one edit from a suspected sock. MuZemike 17:23, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * This isn't quite true, depending on circumstances. This is being looked into.  —  Jake   Wartenberg  19:35, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Is there any other hard evidence that can establish a solid connection between these two accounts or with SmashTheState besides the fact that they edit similar articles (they do edit different articles, as well)? That is, while I very well think this is meatpuppetry, I am not convinced that there is enough behavioral evidence (see previous SPI for reference) that would warrant CU. MuZemike 20:43, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

I decided to check here, despite MuZemike's reluctance. We do actually have the IPs of MiltonP Ottawa and Mymeatyourtreat in the logs from Suspected sock puppets/MiltonP Ottawa, and the two accounts here match them. But because of the ambiguous logs I'm not sure which IP is which is for which of those two users (both blocked). However, the two IPs here are the same as those two, so George Pelltier and Aurush kazemini are each one or the other, for what it's worth. Dominic·t 19:42, 4 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * I have blocked both accounts, but am going to let someone else a bit more familiar with the history here do the tagging. Tiptoety  talk 20:22, 4 August 2009 (UTC)