Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ottava Rima/Archive

Evidence submitted by Hans Adler
The reason why this would be abusive sockpuppetry if the IP is Ottava's can be found here:.

Reasons to suspect a connection:
 * Same country.
 * Very similar opinions about Ottava Rima.
 * Similar style of arguing. The IP's behaviour on Talk:Micrography reminds me of Ottava's.
 * Similar use of edit summaries.
 * To me the timing seems typical for sockpuppetry, except for the following two edits:.

I think Checkuser would be justified in this case, since the accusation that Ottava is supporting himself through a sockpuppet while Arbcom is discussing his ban is obviously very severe. Hans Adler 20:58, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

PS: I just got an email from aother user telling me it looks more like User:Malcolm Schosha, an editor I am not familiar with. So it seems Ottava has been cleared about as strongly as possible. Sorry for the trouble. Hans Adler 21:31, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

I have done some minor edits to articles under my IP, and those edits were to articles far outside the areas of interest of Ottava Rima. If Hans Adler can not understand that he is less intelligent than I have assumed. 173.52.187.133 (talk) 12:11, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

By the way, Hans Adler gives two diffs above but the second has nothing to do with me....as far as I can see. This whole thing puzzles me anyhow, because the arguments I made were on Ottava Rima's talk page, where they were unlikely to effect arbcom voting, and such cases do not allow for any editors other than arbcom members to vote. Considering that, how could what I wrote on a user talk page have effected the outcome of Ottava Rima's case? The arguments I made were intended simply as arguments, the validity of which were open to rational evaluation. I was my hope that perhaps a few readers would give some thought to the ideas I presented. As far as I know there is nothing wrong with doing that in the context of a user talk page. 173.52.187.133 (talk) 14:31, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

CheckUser requests
Requested by Hans Adler 20:58, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

– Per NW and Risker below. MuZemike 21:11, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * IP geolocates to Brooklyn. I believe Ottava resides around Washington D.C. Certainly possible within the radius of geolocation error, but unlikely. NW ( Talk ) 21:08, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Concur. Insufficient evidence to warrant a checkuser. Declined. Risker (talk) 21:10, 19 December 2009 (UTC)