Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nathan Jay Williams/Archive

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Nathan Jay Williams is a recently registered account, whose problematic editing managed to garner two short-term editblocks within just four days of registering (first for repeatedly stripping AFD templates from articles with active AFD discussions, then for repeatedly recreating already-AFDed articles without showing any improved evidence of notability even after being told to stop). He is, however, known to be the same user as User:Nathan Williams, a former editor with a four-year history of problematic editing who also had a sockpuppet account as User:CJ Ramsay — both of those accounts are now stale and I don't need verification of NJay's linkage to them, so I'm not formally including them as part of the sockcheck request, but their actual editing histories are relevant nonetheless. After the second editblock, NJay simply converted both his user and talk pages into links to a diff on the old CJ Ramsay talk page, and hasn't edited under that name since March 24.

McClellandRA, in turn, is a new account registered within the past 24 hours. Their first contribution was to try to add links in a radio station's infobox to an image file that doesn't actually exist to be linked to — an old Nathan Williams specialty — and their second was to create an article about an "upcoming" radio station which is actually a failed application that the CRTC outright rejected almost a year ago. While it's impossible to definitively determine whether it was a good faith creation about a radio station McClelland genuinely but mistakenly thought had been approved, or a deliberate WP:HOAX that falsified an application they already knew had been rejected, the thing is that Nathan Williams' other longtime hallmark was the creation of outright hoax articles about radio stations that didn't actually exist at all — virtually all of which were in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick or Nova Scotia, which is exactly where McClelland's New 94.3 FM Kentville, Nova Scotia is located too, and some of which, also like this, contained a shred of truth (e.g. an internet radio stream) and then wildly misrepresented it all the way into hoaxland. The article's grammar stumble at "The callsign and launch date for this new station has yet to be determined" is also characteristic of Nathan's poor writing style.

The only thing that genuinely gives me pause here is that for all of his problems, Nathan has not traditionally been lax about including the Infobox radio station template when creating a new article even though that's lacking in this instance. However, on balance, I think there's enough evidence to at least have this looked into just to be safe. Bearcat (talk) 17:08, 12 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Followup: also adding an IP number, which has been getting into an apparent editwar with McClellandRA over the inclusion or exclusion or gallerying or free-floating-thumbing of radio station logos — which is also a game Nathan Williams used to play between himself-as-himself and himself-as-CJ-Ramsay. This has been waiting for five days now and I'd really appreciate it if somebody actually addressed my request one way or the other — if there's a problem that needs to be fixed before it can proceed, for example, then I need to know what it is before I can do anything to fix it. Bearcat (talk) 23:52, 17 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Excuse me, but this has now been sitting open for 18 full days without anybody even so much as posting a request for further information. Would somebody please address it one way or the other? Bearcat (talk) 16:16, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

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 * Closing. Ks0stm  (T•C•G•E) 21:35, 26 May 2017 (UTC)