Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Please choose a different username/Archive

Report date January 19 2009, 00:26 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Simply south User talk:Simply south

Both users have used forged signatures on their userpages of well-known users. The second user i have checked is not the user they say they are. The primary account has been told off for forged sigs. Both accounts also around same time. See here, here and here as well as the rest of the main user's talk page. Please also see User talk:Tony Sidaway for the related discussion.


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * Circumstantially, User:Please avoid gibberish in discussion looks like it might have been set up to spoof me, but it seems to have been rather a long time ago. --TS 01:23, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * For completeness, here is the record of the discussion on my talk page. I stopped doing archives when they got too huge and unwieldy. --TS 06:32, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Requested by Simply south User talk:Simply south 00:26, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * User:Please avoid gibberish in discussion last edited in April 2007 while User:Please choose a different username last edited in December 2008. There isn't any immediate concern with this account when all they're doing are editing their own userspace with no mainspace or talkpage edits. The CU result would be stale anyway and I don't believe there is any sleeper accounts out there. OhanaUnitedTalk page 02:55, 19 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * The old account, 'gibberish', edited so long ago it's hardly worth looking at. The new account, Please choose a different username, forges someone's signature on nearly every edit. It received a final warning on 9 December, but has not edited since that moment. There are two choices in my opinion: (1) block 'Please choose' indefinitely for general stupidity, or (2) leave it alone and see if it forges again, and if so block indef. No need for further sock investigation, in my opinion. EdJohnston (talk) 05:54, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Gonna block, it's probably someone fooling around. -- lucasbfr  talk 10:53, 20 January 2009 (UTC) The Helpful  One  19:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions