Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/PCE/Archive

Report date April 23 2009, 06:40 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by McJeff (talk)

I believe that User:PCE logs out and edits from his IP address to edit war.

PCE and I were involved in a dispute at Professional wrestling throws/Powerbomb as to whether a certain move should be referred to as "Spine bomb" or "Rydeen bomb". Although I added a source for my version, PCE continued to edit war for some time, stopping only after a terse message on his user talk page. Shortly after this, an IP address, 166.82.217.173, edited the Professional wrestling throws article to change the move's name back to PCE's version. Checking the IP's contributions, it focuses almost entirely on biographies of professional wrestlers, with no edits on topics unrelated to professional wrestling. The vast majority of the pages it has edited have also been edited by PCE. McJeff (talk) 06:40, 23 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * It is certainly true that both the IP and the registered user share an interest in Professional Wrestling, and don't edit greatly outside that field. However, such narrow interests are not uncommon, and we cannot call people socks on that basis alone. From a brief foray into the edit histories of a couple of the articles concerned, it is also clear that WP:POV, WP:OR and WP:SYNTH regarding the names of wrestling throws is also not uncommon, so whilst there may be similarities here, they are far from conclusive. identifies as being from Florida, and has various links of interest to FL topics on his home page (although these were added after the first IP edits in July last year), whilst the IP geolocates to NC. Mayalld (talk) 10:15, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Investigating Sockpuppet allegations is very time consuming, and becomes impossibly so if the only thing that is presented is a series of allegations, and the whole edit history of the parties. It isn't reasonable to expect somebody to wade through all that lot looking for the smoking gun. If there are specific edits that would help us to conclude that there is something untoward, you should suply diffs. Mayalld (talk) 10:15, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Looking through both users contributions for diffs, it now seems to me that it's more likely a coincidence than sockpuppetry, especially if the IP address isn't from Florida. The IP edits on Pro Wrestling Guerilla related articles, while PCE focuses movesets of wrestlers in general, which is how they ended up in the same place.  So I guess this can be closed with no action.  McJeff (talk) 03:59, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

insufficient evidence of socking. Mayalld (talk) 06:56, 24 April 2009 (UTC) Mayalld (talk) 06:56, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Evidence submitted by Jeff G.
Similar editing patterns, both edit warring with Jeangabin on Melissa Coates per this history, 72.185.171.33 started editing soon after PCE was blocked. —  Jeff G. ツ  00:35, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
. We will not connect IP addresses to accounts with Checkuser. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 00:52, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Duck case blocked for 3 months. NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 03:09, 20 September 2010 (UTC)