Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Memsom/Archive

Report date February 26 2009, 00:42 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by -- samj in out

User:Memsom is very clearly biased (even admitted to being a psion user) and has already warned that they're ''"not picking a fight, else [this] wikipedia article would be toast".

User:82.201.181.226 makes a bunch of edits to debates involving User:Memsom. Both users are from the UK.

User:Memsom calls for deletion on talk page (?) then shortly after User:82.132.136.203 writes a similar (unsigned) rant citing the same issues (e.g. bias). Both users are from the UK.

User:Memsom votes to delete an article he doesn't like, then less than 20 minutes later User:131.111.27.50 votes to delete, also citing similar issues, also unsigned. Both users have made similar edits (here and here) to the same section of the same article around the same time. Both users are from the UK.

User:Memsom also admits to editing as IPs and has a history of disruptive and tendentious editing.

FWIW, User:Memsom has since explained themselves and appears genuine. Also admitted to being a 'noob' - years old account but few edits. -- samj in out 03:23, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * due to one apparent deliberate logged-out edit Mayalld (talk) 07:32, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * whilst it is not a breach to forget to log in, it is a breach to deliberately log out in order to stack !votes at an AFD. The following sequence of edits is problematic;
 * 16:59 25th February Memson edits Articles for deletion/Save the Netbooks to !vote delete
 * 17:25 25th February Memson edits Save the Netbooks
 * 17:34 25th February 131.111.27.50 edits Articles for deletion/Save the Netbooks to !vote delete
 * 17:35 25th February Memson edits Psion netbook
 * So, if 131.111.27.50 is Memsom (and all that has gone before has been on the basis of "yes I have edited whilst logged out), there are two questions to be answered;
 * Did he "forget" in the space of half an hour that he had already !voted?
 * Did that omission fortuitously coincide with a mysterious 5 minute logged out period?
 * Mayalld (talk) 07:32, 26 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Mayalld, that IP address is assigned to a University that is approximately 60 miles away from my place of work and over 100 miles away from my home address. It was not me, I have never attended the University in question and do not believe I know of any current enrollees there. The University of Cambridge is quite prestigious place to study, so I can only wish that I could have afforded it ;-) I think, bar magic, I can sfely say I was not sitting in their computer labs 7 minutes after I was in central London. Memsom (talk) 13:25, 26 February 2009 (UTC)


 * (ec)Memson's acknowledged IP is 84.201.181.226 - that one didn't vote twice. Also, the speech patterns of Memson and the IP that voted are very different to my eye. SamJ has been making accusations of bad faith against everyone who voted to delete his article, and this was part of it. He even said on the AfD that an SPI has been opened, conveniently forgetting to mention that it was him who opened it. I'll buy that two of the IPs above may be Memson (home and work), but he's accusing three.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 13:27, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

based on the evidence presented by Memsom, I accept that there doesn't seem to be anything untoward going on. Mayalld (talk) 16:21, 26 February 2009 (UTC) Mayalld (talk) 16:21, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions