Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ron Haward/Archive

Report date January 31 2009, 16:42 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Normally I would assume a name and an IP making similar edits was a new user and wouldn't call it a sock. However, the user is trying to take on two different personas - one for the IP and one for the name - in order to perpetuate the hoax article Ishtiaq Hussain. In this edit, for instance, Ron Haward pretends to be Hussain's publicist.  Flying  Toaster  16:42, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by  Flying  Toaster 


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

I'd say the investigation is almost moot, as he confessed. However, it looks like the page was created in the past, as if this hoax was attempted before. The deleted versions from User:Prof.edwards would probably contain the same material - a hoax page with similar wild claims (e.g. saying that he owns a football club when another person is already documented as the owned.) -Sigma 7 (talk) 17:08, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users
 * I agree with you, but one very small point - I think in the diff you provided he's actually referring to the content of the article being true, rather than the sockpuppet accusation. I'm saying that based on a very similar comment he made in the deleted article's talk page, which unfortunately I can't check.  I'm adding Prof.edwards to this page as well.  Perhaps a checkuser could help out.   Flying  Toaster  17:42, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Mayalld (talk) 15:21, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions