Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/RobScheurwater/Archive

Report date March 16 2009, 14:35 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets
 * (added by Mayalld (talk))
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 * Evidence submitted by Laurent (talk)

Please could you check if the IP 41.243.250.126 belongs to this user. I think he voted on this own AfD using this IP. Thanks. Laurent (talk) 14:35, 16 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * The AFD is still open, we won't look into it until after it closes, and you will need to provide your reasoning as to why you think the IP is RobScheurwater. ——  nix eagle email me 18:15, 16 March 2009 (UTC)


 * They are both from South Africa and are the only ones on the AfD who want to keep the article. It could be a friend or someone from his family though, or maybe he just forgot to sign up. I just didn't want to bring that up in the AfD without being sure. Laurent (talk) 21:03, 16 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I've added another SPA that has !voted keep at the AFD to this case. Looking at the use of language between the three, all use very similar phraseology. It isn't clear whether these are peculiarities of an individual, or artefacts of regional English, and somebody more local is probably better placed to comment. Mayalld (talk) 22:39, 16 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: The AFD is now closed so you may want to investigate the user now. Considering his attitude during the AFD (removal of notability / autobiography / COI templates on his articles, making changes to people's votes, etc.) I wouldn't be surprised if he had in fact a sockpuppet or two. Laurent (talk) 11:45, 19 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * Please tag/archive. I soft blocked the IP address 41.243.250.126 for 2 weeks. User:SteveGin is blocked indef as *someone's* sockpuppet. I cannot confirm that the account is a sock of User:RobScheurwater, but the account is pretty obviously a throwaway account used by someone. RobScheurwater was warned about logging out. ——  nix eagle email me 03:24, 23 March 2009 (UTC)