Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/JohnHistory/Archive

Report date September 18 2009, 21:38 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by OhanaUnited

Many instances of "logging out of account A and coming back as account B".

At Talk:Van Jones, JohnHistory (JH) made some edits from 23:20 to 23:30 (all UTC), 4 September 2009. ObserverNY (ONY) made 1 edit on 23:31 and 1 on 23:32 before switching back to using JH at 23:38. The next day, IP made an edit on the page, before JH came in 5 mins later and corrected the signature, and then 3 mins later ONY appears and adds a new section to the page. More of similar behaviour are found at Van Jones.

In addition, ONY and JH both have a "broken" signature that are identical in formatting. Both have a non-linked username right after their linked signature + timestamp, which kind of gave away the relationships between both accounts.


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by OhanaUnitedTalk page 21:38, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

JohnHistory is the IP, but he appears to be ❌ to ObserverNY. J.delanoy gabs adds 22:55, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

No action taken. It looks like the editor may have edited while logged out. MuZemike 01:53, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions