Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Raryel/Archive

Report date September 18 2009, 14:09 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Oxyphenbutazone

1) Raryel is the subject of the article Ron Aryel, currently listed for deletion.

2) At the time of listing for deletion, the contributions of Smithcraft36 and Jndoe focussed on the career of Raryel.

3) Since challenged over this COI by Jehochman, Smithcraft36 has made two small contributions elsewhere, one of which has since been edited out as it was verifiably factually incorrect.

4) Upon this challenge, Smithcraft36 also posted some defensive statements to the deletion discussion. These are very distinctive both in style and in content, in particular in the manner in which the user takes advice that may not be entirely palatable to him.

5) Raryel's responses on his talk page share this distinctiveness.

6) Smithcraft36 has contributed virtually all the content to the Ron Aryel article.

7) It should be noted that Aryel is a medical doctor. Outside Wikipedia, Smithcraft36 appears as a handle on Yahoo! Health, offering advice in this same distinctive style.

8) This too can be judged on content. Smithcraft36 expresses a strange conviction about the value of maturity. This appears from multiple internet postings by handles known to be Ron Aryel (through his participation at nycsubway.org) to be a part of his world-view also. (I do not feel that it would be kind to link to any of these, but I will do if it proves necessary.)

9) Jndoe's edits do little more than make the edit history look as if there had been more than one author making a large number of contributions to the article. Furthermore, they appear as an almost discrete block of edits.

10) The username Jndoe appears to be making a joke out of sockpuppetry (see John Doe).

11) Outside the Ron Aryel article, Jndoe seems to have an uncanny knack of turning up in close proximity to Raryel.

12) Raryel appears once in the history of Ron Aryel; this is between edits by Jndoe, presumably because he made a mistake. 13) I therefore conclude that Raryel is using Smithcraft36 for self-promotion and for attempting to deceive other users about this self-promotion. He is also using or has also used Jndoe to provide cover for Smithcraft36.

14) I am posting this as a last resort. Both Jehochman and myself tried to let Smithcraft36 know less formally that his game was up. Instead, Smithcraft36 is continuing his efforts in the aforementioned deletion discussion.

𝐨𝐱𝐲𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐵𝑈𝑇𝐴𝑍𝑂𝑁𝐸 ⓊⓉ 14:09, 18 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments ✅ as:
 * is . Brandon (talk) 17:35, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
 * is . Brandon (talk) 17:35, 18 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions

Confirmed accounts blocked and tagged. The behavioural evidence of is clear enough for me to block him with the rest. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 22:44, 18 September 2009 (UTC)