Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Melonbarmonster2/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * This account is not a sock, but the previous account of the user which he lost access to when he lost his password.
 * This account is not a sock, but the previous account of the user which he lost access to when he lost his password.

Evidence submitted by Jerem43
The Korean cuisine article has been the subject of several edit wars over the past few years, but has been stable for a good amount of time. Recently an anonymous IP contributor placed a long-winded diatribe about the article being racist and demanded that several sections be deleted as such; almost immediately a long time contributor, User:Melonbarmonster2 f.k.a. User:Melonbarmonster, with a history of edit warring over articles with a Korean subject, jumped in and began blowing through the article in the name of deleting all he thought was wrong. It was this posting Melonbarmonster used to justify his edit based upon "multiple" users having issues with the content of the article.

This has raised suspicions for me about the timing of the contributor's actions in relation to the the diatribe the IP contributor posted. In the posting, the IP user used similar arguments, phrasing and grammatical patterns that Melonbarmonster has used in past postings and arguments concerning these subjects.

In less than an hour, Melonbarmonster2's actions lead to the article being locked down for two weeks, all based upon the initial posting of the IP user. I would like to request a checkuser on these two accounts to insure that Melonbarmonster did not post the comment himself then use the his own post as justification for igniting another edit war on the article.

Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 19:55, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
– First off, we do not endorse CU requests linking an IP to a specific user. That being said, I leaning toward banking that the IP is Melonbarmonster2 anyways. In either case, no CU necessary. –MuZemike 21:38, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Nothing left to do here - the IP hasn't edited in days. TN X Man  13:21, 10 July 2010 (UTC)