Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rockgenre/Archive

Evidence submitted by Sugar Bear
These accounts are making similar edits to the article Kid Rock, attempting to force a POV that is not supported by the guidelines or sources. Additionally, the account User:Greg D. Barnes used the phrase "fucking moron" in reaction to other editors. Similarly uncivil comments have been left by User:Rockgenre.

Further notes: "Greg" seems to be talking to RG an awful lot, more than any other editor. That wouldn't mean anything, would it?
 * That made no sense. Try again buddy.--Greg D. Barnes (talk) 22:40, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Pay NO ATTENTION to this "Sugar Bear" user. He thinks he can just own ANY page he wants (see his contributions to music pages about "Nu Metal"), and you deserve to be called names for your ignorance--especially by accusing me of being "Rock Genre." Go ahead, run check user all you want!--Greg D. Barnes (talk) 17:08, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * And one more thing, if I was "Rock Genre," then why would I post this? Again, this whole thing is ridiculous and a waste of everyone's time.--Greg D. Barnes (talk) 17:32, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


 * And if you LEARN to READ, my "fucking moron" comment was just towards YOU for being ignorant about me being "Rock Genre," nothing to do with edit warring (which you are more guilty of than me).--Greg D. Barnes (talk) 17:19, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, and I LOVE the fact that you block log says were blocked indefinitely for abusive behavior, harassment, and oh EDIT-WARRING!!! Well isn't that the pot calling the kettle black? LMFAO!--Greg D. Barnes (talk) 17:19, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Greg/RG, your claims are absolutely absurd. Stop making statements with no basis in reality to distract from the fact that you are clearly the same person, and POV pushing. Telling people to ignore the facts that I have presented, editing against guidelines, engaging in sock-puppetry and calling others "fucking morons"...what new lows will you soon sink to? (Sugar Bear (talk) 20:42, 24 March 2010 (UTC))
 * Once AGAIN, stop being IGNORANT.--Greg D. Barnes (talk) 22:38, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

The only person who has been pushing POV is Sugar Bear, always removing sourced content if he disagrees with it. Anyway back to the subject at hand, I did not engage in any sockpuppetry, but these false accusations don't bother me at all. Though I do expect a well deserved apology once these claims are proven wrong. RG (talk) 19:21, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


 * By the way, pretending to be real offended under both usernames, accusing other editors of breaking the rules that you have broke, and making all manner of personal attacks is not a good way to make your case. None of these comments address the legitimate concern that these two accounts are by the same person. (Sugar Bear (talk) 20:49, 24 March 2010 (UTC))
 * "Sugar Bear", this section is for comments from the accused only, please see the comments by other users section if you wish to comment. Personally, I'm glad you opened this investigation. I'll be proven innocent and hopely I'll finally get that simple "I'm sorry." Take care. RG (talk) 21:21, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm also glad he opened this up. It's quite entertaining. BTW my IP address is 68.79.102.167--Greg D. Barnes (talk) 22:39, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I can't wait for checkuser! Haha!--Greg D. Barnes (talk) 14:03, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Comments by other users
Can you provide evidence of other editing patterns that suggest Mr. Barnes and RG are related? Because all I see here is a content dispute where two people disagree with you. J.delanoy gabs adds 04:54, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by Sugar Bear (talk) 16:47, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

essentially this is simply a case where two users have the same opinion in a content dispute, as J.delanoy has said. The evidence presented fails to draw any thing else against these users other than their edits on the page Kid Rock, and even those edits aren't particularly conclusive, take for instance this edit summary by Greg. But the edit warring on Kid Rock besides, these users are massively different in their general attitude on wikipedia, and they have massively different styles of editing. For those reasons I fail to see a link between these accounts, and have marked this case as closed. SpitfireTally-ho! 08:47, 27 March 2010 (UTC)