Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/JoeBoy67/Archive

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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/JoeBoy67&action=view https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Death_penalty_(NCAA)&oldid=802638374  Bobherry   Talk   Edits  14:19, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

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I am removing the CheckUser request, as a CheckUser will not compare an account with an IP address. I will not close this report, because I have had other contact with the filing editor about this case, and it may be better for an independent administrator to deal with it, but I shall comment. The editor who filed this report has been edit-warring to try to keep unsourced negative content in an article. JoeBoy67 and two IP addresses, including the one named in this report, have removed the unsourced negative content. The amount of evidence is not enough to tell whether one or both of the IP addresses is the same person as JoeBoy67, but on balance I think the evidence suggest not. The edits from the IP addresses were not exactly identical to those of JoeBoy67, one of them didn't use an edit summary, whereas JoeBoy67 has always used one, the two IP addresses geolocate to different states. With unsubstantiated negative claims against a sport team it is by no means unlikely that different people (possibly supporters of the team) will independently see it and remove it. JoeBoy67 may or may not have edited without logging in, but it can't be proved, so no action can be justified, except perhaps a friendly message to JoeBoy67 warning him not to do so. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:11, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I concur with JBW. Closing. Primefac (talk) 15:15, 27 September 2017 (UTC)