Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Matilda/Archive

15 June 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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This case appears to have been handled informally, possibly because User:Matilda was an admin, but has not been formally resolved, and no action has been taken against the users involved. Since User:A.K.Nole has also been accused of being a sockpuppet of User:Echigo mole, against whom an LTA case is pending, it would probably be a good idea to tidy up loose ends like this. The identification was initially disclosed by User:Mathsci and it would seem that now-retired arbitrator and checkuser User:Shell Kinney was handling it:
 * 28 March 2010
 * "A checkuser has determined that, and  are very likely sockpuppets of " -- Mathsci
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 * 29 March 2010
 * "You can talk to the checkuser directly. It's User:Nishkid64. Or you can try talking to User:Shell Kinney who's dealing with this at the moment." -- Mathsci
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 * 2 April 2010
 * "I am aware of the situation" -- Shell Kinney
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 * "I am aware of the situation" -- Shell Kinney
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I have filed this under Matilda as the earliest of the users. If agreed, then Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/A.K.Nole/Archive and/or Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Echigo mole/Archive should be merged into this heading. 2 April 2010 "I am aware of the situation" -- Mathsci I&#39;m sorry about your trousers (talk) 16:12, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * Comment Is there any actual evidence (other than checkuser) that User:Matilda has any link at all with any of these other accounts. The account has one (1) edit in 3.5 years which was taking herself off a list. Matilda does not appear (to me at least) to share any interest in editing similar articles etc. as her supposed socks. We should be very careful about blackening editors' reputations based on nothing other than a checkuser. No comment on any of the other accounts but Matilda's involvement seems higly unlikely to me; are we sure this isn't mistaken identity? -- Mattinbgn (talk) 06:54, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Matilda is an Australian-resident editor with no shared history at all with the other accounts - geographically, editing history, editor interactions etc. What is she doing here in this SPI? -- Mattinbgn (talk) 07:03, 16 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment The older case referred to seems to be at Sockpuppet investigations/Quotient group/Archive not Sockpuppet investigations/A.K.Nole/Archive Sansodor (talk) 06:56, 16 June 2012 (UTC)


 * This checkuser request is a trolling stunt by Echigo mole. Both and  are almost without doubt sockpuppets of Echigo mole. Please see Sockpuppet investigations/Echigo mole. Echigo mole's posting of CU requests  and  is part of his own trolling to waste CU's time. As Quotient group, Echigo mole was contacted by Shell Kinney. In an email from 26 March 2010, Nishkid64 wrote, "I ran the checks on the accounts and these are my findings: Dewey process and Rhomb are possible, and it's possible that both are socks of Mister Collins. Quotient group and Matilda or Maud are very likely sockpuppets of A.K.Nole." In an email of 2 April 2010, Shell Kinney explained that she would be discussing with Quotient group which of the two accounts (Quotient group and  A.K.Nole) he would be using.  Mathsci (talk) 07:10, 16 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment Well I have logged in and you have a new address to checkuser and compare if you needed it.  I really have retired and am not editing under any other username.  Regards --Matilda talk 08:14, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Given the geography of the IPs at Sockpuppet investigations/Quotient group/Archive and the topics being edited, I cannot see how I could possibly have been confused with the other users based on my editing history. --Matilda talk 08:38, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree. The edits were from Gloucestershire (evidently A.K.Nole/Quotient group editing from Cheltenham). I am not quite sure how Nishkid64 conducted his CU at the time (26 March 2010), but apart from a brief mention, the finding was ignored. Since it was mentioned to Quotient group/Echigo mole, before he made a promise to Shell Kinney in private to stop wikihounding me, he has decided to use it as an extra element in his mischief-making and time-wasting trolling on wikipedia. This checkuser request will undoubtedly be denied and the two sockpuppets blocked indefinitely. Mathsci (talk) 08:47, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The oldest account here is User:Maud, but the first two accounts should be removed from the investigation and replaced with another account, probably User:Matilda or Maud, making User:A.K.Nole the earliest (although A.K.Nole sockpuppet User:Holding Ray and Echigo mole sockpuppet User:Tryphaena are older accounts, and there are probably other accounts from February 2009). Peter&#160;E.&#160;James (talk) 09:30, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Many thanks, Peter. Your reading of Nishkid64's email is much more accurate than mine and certainly resolves the confusion about the other two accounts :) Mathsci (talk) 09:36, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Closing, evidently baseless request apparently filed by a troll sock (unless the CUs want to check up on the filer). Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:12, 16 June 2012 (UTC)