Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Roger13Zimmerman/Archive

Report date September 17 2009, 15:51 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

User originally ¬voted multiple times in a deletion discussion. After it was pointed out that this is inappropriate, the user changed their later comments to comments, but then, several SPA's appeared and began making ¬votes, asking for the page to be kept.
 * Evidence submitted by Irbisgreif (talk)

User has edited signatures from the IP adress to be his own signatures.

I believe checkuser is warranted because of ¬vote fraud in an ongoing discussion. Irbisgreif (talk) 15:51, 17 September 2009 (UTC)


 * User:Aaron.c.zimm appears to be a sock as well. Irbisgreif (talk) 16:01, 17 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by Irbisgreif (talk) 15:51, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * . Checkusers might wait until the discussion is closed, but not all see the utility in that so I'm endorsing even though it remains open. Nathan  T 19:00, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

✅ that the following appear to be using the same connection: However, note this diff makes a claim that several of those accounts are operated by family members; I'm not sure that we lose anything by taking that claim at face value. – Luna Santin  (talk) 19:26, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 1)  (not previously listed)
 * 1)  (not previously listed)
 * 1)  (not previously listed)

All socks indefinitely blocked, and the sockmaster has been blocked for 1 week. Looking at the contribs of all the accounts, I do not buy into the "family" reason. On a couple of them, their only contributions have been to that deletion discussion. If these are his family members, then it is clear that he recruited his family to votestack the deletion discussion and to otherwise claim ownership to the article, in an effect driving others away. That or it's clear socking; both are blockable offenses.
 * Conclusions

The IP has been left unblocked as it seems unrelated at this time. MuZemike 21:44, 17 September 2009 (UTC)


 * The IP geolocates to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the location of User:Roger13Zimmerman's company. The comments seem to pass the duck test identifying Zimmerman as the most likely source. Has a CU been performed on the IP? -- Brangifer (talk) 04:26, 18 September 2009 (UTC)