Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Megistias/Archive

Evidence submitted by ZjarriRrethues
Both of these IPs have only one edit on the same article that Megistias very frequently as seen in the history page of the article. They also share with Megistias:
 * the same ISP
 * the same IP range
 * the same firewall settings
 * the same geolocation
 * the same traceroute
 * the same global settings

as seen in the whois of the IPs  and the whois of Megistias, which I found in the previous versions of the talkpage of Albanian nationalism.

I wouldn't report him if it was a common mistake, but I have repeatedly asked him if that's him editing from his ip and he has either not replied or replied making unsubstantiated personal attacks against me and removing my question. I have discussed this thoroughly in the past with several experienced users of wikipedia and I think this passes WP:DUCK. Also note that Megistias in the past has been disruptive in many ways as seen in his block log.

Today he edited using this IP and then logged in to edit with his username.

This IP edited the same article as the first IP (Albanian nationalism) only to revert me, as Megistias edits in the past weeks that are over 80% reverts of my edits. Note the summary which is "rv", meaning that the IP user is familiar with wikipedia.

When asked on the talkpage if that was his ip Megistias again decided not to reply but make claims that other users were disruptive .-- — ZjarriRrethues — talk 09:50, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.


 * That was me, not a secret really but quite obvious, sorry guys. I point out here [] that for some time "Also i get disconnected all the time due to my router and i can't edit, log on or even browse around." I have had internet issues, Greek companies and lame routers. Thankou 88.218.82.237 (talk) 15:08, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Comments by other users
Since these ips have only one edit in total, the report can not be considered reasonable. Off course everyone might accidentally be logged out for technical reasons, it happens to everyone [], and here we have 1 edit. This investigation is simply exaggerated: Megistias, if it was him, didn't break any rule, actually he reverted a massive deletion barrage by Zjarri.[]: he noticed a Brddisruption and reverted it.

On the other hand Zjarri. was highly disruptive removing large parts of the article in some minutes without waiting to discuss anything. I've informed him to relax [] but without any result. He was also adviced by EdJohnston [] to get concensus first. Not to mention that two ips immediatelly followed for Zjarri's support, but they were reverted by a bot since such kind of massive removals by ips are considered de facto disruptive.

I can name numerous examples of Zjarri's highly aggressive behavior. Some example are this ([] 7 days after his account creation participated actively in a combined report against me) and this []. This is just one more weird bad faith report.Alexikoua (talk) 11:35, 21 April 2010 (UTC)


 * No this isn't a bad faith report, since I had asked him if he was making those edits and he decided to reply in a totally inappropriate manner and basically not answer at all, but continue his activity. Also please avoid wp:npa for which admins have warned you not to initiate against me.-- — ZjarriRrethues — talk 12:24, 21 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Actually there wasn't such warning by any admin and describing the story isn't called personal attack. This situation has nothing to do with sockpuppetry and I kindly ask you to cancel this report since it has no meaning at all.Alexikoua (talk) 17:41, 21 April 2010 (UTC)


 * That is a warning. The case will be closed by a clerk asap, since Megistias admitted that it was indeed him.-- — ZjarriRrethues — talk 17:52, 21 April 2010 (UTC)


 * And you see that this is called warning for personal attacks? Sorry I don't see this. Actually Meg. had informed everyone from his talkpage that it was him, so I don' t see a reason why you still insist on this.18:47, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Taking the worst possible view of every allegation, there's just nothing to go on here: the IPs edited roughly a month apart, with Megistias editing roughly two weeks from either one. If he's done anything, it isn't a case for SPI.&mdash;Kww(talk) 05:05, 26 April 2010 (UTC)