Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SonofFeanor/Archive

Report date June 5 2009, 18:06 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Soxwon

SPAs (note, Russandol appears to have been created as soon as LindzenFan hit the 3RR) have shown up on the page Passive Smoking along with NappyJohnson and User:Pcpoliceman (whose other edits incidentally relate to pages referencing Feanor). All of these accounts have continuously edit warred along with the User:SonofFeanor. Can something be done to stop what appears to be blatant meatpuppetry? Soxwon (talk) 18:06, 5 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

SonofFeanor admitted to canvassing and  offsite here and here. appears to be related to (whose name appears to be typo'd above), as evidenced by these two edits, and as such seems to have been used to avoid making many reverts on Passive smoking with a single account. lifebaka++ 18:16, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users


 * answering a thread on the talkpage of as though he was LindzenFan  Yilloslime T C  18:17, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * If it's useful to anyone, I've been keeping track of IP's and potential socks here. Yilloslime T C  18:17, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence that is the puppet master is in this thread.Yilloslime T C  18:23, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

These are obvious, disruptive, in many cases admitted sock/meatpuppets being used aggressively to edit-war and go up to 5+RR. The situation is ridiculous. My understanding of the proper response to obvious, disruptive, inappropriate use of alternate accounts is that blocks are appropriate. I don't see much use for checkuser, since these are self-admitted meatpuppets rather than socks, but in any case the on-wiki evidence is more than sufficient to classify this as abusive. That's not even taking into account the aggravating factors of edit-warring and obnoxiousness on the talk page (e.g. "Don't care if you are willing to compromise. I am not."). Can we please get some administrative action to put a stop to this? MastCell Talk 18:27, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * If you think this passes the duck test, please ask an admin to block the accounts (or have one of the admins here block).  Sy  n 18:39, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Ah, I missed this before. created. lifebaka++ 18:36, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Blocked and tagged.  Sy  n 18:51, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 Sy  n 18:51, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions