Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Philomathes2357/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Philomathes is a person who was topic banned from American Politics for 6 months as a condition of unblock due to bad behavior on January 25, 2023. On July 6, Philomathes violated the ban.  Shortly after Philomathes has returned to bludgeoning talk pages on politics related topics with walls of text. 

Philomathes has also been casting aspersions, accusing editors of doxxing them, incivility, and other offenses

AstralNomad immediately after existence started casting aspersions on one of Philomathes's targets.

Philomathes also follows a very strange, recent pattern of multiple right-wing Wikipedia editors simultaneously demanding that Reliable Sources "define" terms such as right-wing or far-right on different talk pages. This may either be a result of sockpuppets or a result of talking points coordinated through a back channel. Lois Lane of Earth-12 (talk) 15:45, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Commenting as an involved editor: I urge that this be closed with no action. The OP has been blocked as a sockpuppet, created solely to harass Philomathes. The evidence of socking provided here is just one diff, and it's unconvincing. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 12:24, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * On the other hand, the person who brought this is a CU confirmed sock. So I've struck out their post. Doug Weller  talk 13:54, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Closing per WP:DENY, with no prejudice to revisiting if any editor in good standing has any concerns about these accounts.  Girth Summit  (blether)  11:54, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Philomathes2357 is known to edit logging out to avoid detection. Philomathes2357 has deleted comments at Reliable sources/Noticeboard and Talk:Douma chemical attack that contradicted his WP:FRINGE viewpoints by editing and removing comments while logged out. Note the editing overlaps, including Philomathes2357's ridiculous fake disclaimer claiming to be "not me" but trying to WP:CANVAS people to [WP:RSN]] 216.239.170.134 (talk) 04:20, 18 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Updated evidence follows.
 * The IP talk page shows multiple blocks for uncivil behavior and editing on topics consistent with Philomathes2357's interests. Philomathes2357 also has a history of being blocked and warned for uncivil behavior.
 * 216.239.170.134 (talk) 16:53, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Closing without action. Reporter has been lambasting an RSN discussion with personal attacks, and accusing anyone who reverts them as being a Philomathes2357 sock. There's no merit to any of this. The reporter is also now blocked for confirmed logged-out sockpuppetry. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:05, 18 October 2023 (UTC)