Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rossnixon/Archive

Report date May 18 2009, 22:47 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by SkyWriter

User Osprey9713 has appeared on Wikipedia very recently and immediately engaged in an edit war supporting a non-consensus position of user Rossnixon. This "brand new" user was backing up a rather unusual POV position that is unlikely to have been shared by more than one person. Also, this "brand new" user seemed to have extensive understanding of how to game Wikipedia policies, and tied me up defending myself against a false edit war accusation. I've tried to reason with the apparent sock on his talk page only to find the talk page blanked twice.

Because of the talk page blanking, instant knowledge of how to game Wikipedia policies, and unusually tendentious position that is unlikely to be shared by two people, I must suspect that this is not a unique individual, but a sockpuppet of Rossnixon.SkyWriter (Tim) (talk) 22:47, 18 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

i only have one accountOsprey9713 (talk) 23:02, 18 May 2009 (UTC) The same here. I have never had any other account. rossnixon 02:50, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Jake, can't you check both user's IP addresses or something? Hopefully Osprey9713 doesn't live in New Zealand, then you will see we aren't the same person. rossnixon 02:10, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Looking at Osprey's contribs, he/she has posted as early as 5:46am NZ time. Unless I'm a sleepwalker or have dual-personality disorder, that can't be me as I never get up before 7am. Look at my posts over around 4 years - the earliest edit I can recall would have been circa 9am and even that would be rare - it is usually around 2pm rossnixon 02:27, 22 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by other users

— Jake   Wartenberg  03:36, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

This boils down to the edit warring on Rapture and discussion on its talk page. Osprey9713 has close to 150 edits, and quite a few of them are not to those two pages, but this is where the two accounts intersect. After reading through pages and pages of discussion on the second coming of Jesus, I am convinced that there is a good chance that account may have been created by Rossnixon to give him an upper hand in this dispute. — Jake   Wartenberg  03:36, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions
 * ❌ Currently available technical evidence indicates no relationship between the above two accounts. -- Avi (talk) 16:43, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

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