Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Marcus didley/Archive

Report date August 14 2009, 00:09 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Grim23

User:Marcus didley has been editing articles to do with the Finchley and Hendon areas of north London adding plausible but nonsense edits always without citations. I've been looking at his contributions and I think I've identified his original username User:The biggest jimmy and a new sock puppet User:Jock MacTaggart. Plus two other unregistered users User:87.194.80.10 and User:82.68.90.46. I've grouped the diffs by user in each theme that i think links them:

The name Stan Shah.

User:Marcus didley

User:The biggest jimmy

User:87.194.80.10, ,, ,, ,,

Real English Pigeon Appreciation Society

User:Marcus didley,

User:The biggest jimmy

User:Jock MacTaggart

A hoax website has been setup to justify these edits here. The site has name Stan Shah on it.

The name McTaggart

User:The biggest jimmy

User:87.194.80.10

User:Jock MacTaggart the username itself

Eastern europeans in Finchley

User:87.194.80.10,

User:82.68.90.46

Similar Answers to Criticism.

User:Marcus didley

User:The biggest jimmy, ,

User:87.194.80.10

Nonsense or unreferenced dubious edits.

User:Marcus didley,,,

User:The biggest jimmy

User:87.194.80.10   

User:82.68.90.46    

Grim23 (talk) 00:09, 14 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

I do wholeheartedly apologise -for any inconvenience caused, and will desist from any future of wikipedia. I will admit that account the_biggest_jimmy was mine (in the past tense) but has not been used for a long time, unfortunately the last few months have been incredibly hard on myself and my family and I have been battling many personal demons, which I do not wish to list here, any form of short term escapism is incredibly welcome. I do realise however that this is not acceptable looking back at some of the edits you have listed and so I apologise personally for the time it must have taken to investigate, and also to other members of the community. Contrary to your list I have also made many contributions of whole new pages, which have not been listed.

User Jock McTaggart though I have no idea about. Again, I do apologise and will desist from any use of wikipedia in future in it's entirety. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marcus didley (talk • contribs) 04:39, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

In way of apology and what I would see as helping to redress the balance a little, I am offering to make a decent sized donation to a deserving charity of your choice, or someone's justgiving page (not wikipedia).


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions
 * Closing, based on comments by accused party. If you really wish to make a charitable donation, Charity Navigator or Charities.org might be a good place to start. NW ( Talk ) 00:54, 23 August 2009 (UTC)