Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Serfgzuj/Archive

Report date April 9 2009, 19:42 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Ronnotel (talk)

These users all seem to be single purpose accounts focused on advancing the bio page and pet theories of Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel. Contributions are typically verbose and highly POV in tone. I note that User:Serfgzuj claims to be unrelated to HHH. However, the aggressiveness of the posts, such as this make me question this. Ronnotel (talk) 19:42, 9 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

I'm not exactly sure what the problem is here. Has there been any abusive behavior such as edit warring or vote fraud manipulation going on? From what I can see by looking at the user/article talk pages, nothing much has been done to try and talk through these problems with the editor(s) in question. Nobody has bothered to tell them about wikipedia policies regarding SPAs, NPOV guidelines, etc. The remedy here should have been some thoughtful conversation to help mentor a new user(s). From what I can tell, this case should be thrown out as WP:BITE.Broadweighbabe (talk) 22:11, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

These may well be a single person. In particular, there is an appearance of something untoward between Sanobb and Snemelc on August 17th and 24th last year (although the frequency of switches betweed the two accounts suggests two people working in concert, rather than a single user, and in any case even if socking was involved, 8 months have now passed, and no useful purpose would be served by blocking two accounts that aren't editing any longer. Serfgzuj wasn't registered for over 3 months after Snemelc ceased editing. At the very worst, we have a new user who indulged in some socking to push a POV months ago, then abandoned his account and sock before registering a new account. Nothing here that requires action from an SPI POV. Mayalld (talk) 10:54, 16 April 2009 (UTC) Mayalld (talk) 10:54, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions