Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Halowsmaster/Archive

Report date February 1 2009, 16:41 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Wuhwuzdat (talk)

My user page was vandalized by a new user Dude 88888(no previous contrib history, diff here [] and here [].

He also posted an attack on his user page. I issued a ((uw-attack)) on his talk page, and he apologized and stated that he was upset because I had deleted his article.[]

Having no idea at the time what article had been deleted, I asked him, and he provided the name of an article authored by another user.[].

I stated the the article in question was posted by Halowsmaster and suggested he check out WP:SOCK.

Dude 88888 then admitted []being Halowsmaster, then quickly edited his comments to hide/reverse this position stating the other user was his friend. []

Wuhwuzdat (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

fixed formatting Mayalld (talk) 14:07, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

It seems certain that the two are the same person, and it is also clear that Dude 88888 disembled on Wuhwuzdat's talk page about the status. However, it is also clear that the Halowsmaster hasn't edited since Dude 88888 was created, and I see no evidence that the two accounts were created to evade scrutiny or to get round WP:3RR. As such, there is no breach of WP:SOCK. Mayalld (talk) 10:24, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

not an SPI problem. If disruptive behaviour is a problem, take it to WP:ANI Mayalld (talk) 10:24, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * Yap, self-disclosuer doesn't need CU. OhanaUnitedTalk page 02:57, 9 February 2009 (UTC)