Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Leyasu/Archive

Evidence submitted by Danteferno
User:Leyasu was permanently banned by Wikipedia ArbCom on June 2006 for disruptive edits. Notwithstanding, he evaded his perm block with IP addresses and continued to edit articles until around the end of 2006. These IP addresses were UK-based according to GeoLocate. The following year, another user, also from the UK - User:Blackmetalbaz - joined Wikipedia, and the pattern of his edits seem to mirror Leyasu's: both edit war over subgenre "disputes" of heavy metal-related bands; both blank genres/article information that they don't agree with (some issues which could be easily remedied with the "citation needed" tag'); both call edits vandalism/POV that may not be, and both abrasively Wikilawyer other editors (Leyasu attacked other editors for "POV" in regards to band genres, Blackmetalbaz often labels other editors as "Genre Warriors" ).

While the following comparisons might come across as circumstantial, those who had the misfortune of dealing with Leyasu might see the edit summary similarities as more than just a coincidence:

Both Leyasu and Blackmetalbaz use(d) edit summaries to "quote" other edits/editors and "Wikilawyer" Wikipedia policy:

    

Both Leyasu and Blackmetalbaz use(d) edit summaries to call certain revisions "neologisms"

      

Both Leyasu and Blackmetalbaz use(d) the edit summaries to call an edit probably/potentially/decidedly/very POV

    

It appears User:Blackmetalbaz didn't start editing on Wikipedia until December 2007; therefore quite a bit of time passed since the Leyasu sockpuppet IP's began to subside. There's also the possibility that there was a city/metro change in a user's location. Nevertheless, I see it fitting, in my view, that a Sockpuppet Investigation/CheckUser be conducted, in accordance to the above comparisons and because one of the above usernames was perm blocked by WikiArbCom. Thanks, Danteferno (talk) 04:39, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

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 * - As far as I can tell, there's no data for this case that isn't exceedingly out of date. I think we'll have to go on behavior. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 13:28, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I do not think that we would be able to judge behavior on a 4-year gap. Closing, unless some solid evidence is presented.   Nakon  03:15, 21 November 2010 (UTC)