Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Judymiller2468/Archive

Report date August 23 2009, 14:58 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by JohnnyB256

User:RichPoynder blocked for 24 hours for edit warring on Sholam Weiss upon complaint by user Nableezy. See Obvious sockpuppet Judymiller2468 materialized after block to carry out the same edits. Both screen names engaged in identical edits as 96.234.2.109. See recent article history for Sholam Weiss. --JohnnyB256 (talk) 14:58, 23 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

The Sholam Weiss article has been semiprotected two weeks by User:Tanthalas39. This handles the situation temporarily. Since there is ongoing abuse of a biographical article, I think a checkuser would be worthwhile. Past history suggests that two weeks of protection will not be enough; indefinite semi may eventually be needed. (The improper edits are whitewashing rather than slander, though).
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Here is an overview of some IP edits from last two months:
 * IPs that are up to no good:
 * 96.234.2.109 (removed negative info about Weiss even though it was sourced to the NY Times)
 * 66.128.15.4 (blanked JohnnyB256's talk)


 * Good faith IPs:
 * 97.106.48.188 (tried to improve the wording of some sentences)
 * 68.197.72.206 (added an Infobox)
 * 84.103.182.71 (small grammar improvement)

EdJohnston (talk) 16:48, 23 August 2009 (UTC)


 * All ✅. Brandon (talk) 03:49, 29 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * Accounts blocked indefinitely and tagged. Bad IP blocked for a week. NW ( Talk ) 18:54, 29 August 2009 (UTC)