Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Spudpicker 01/Archive

12 December 2011

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An anonymous editor has used several IP addresses in the last few days (in addition to those explicitly stated above, mostly 98.92.x.x); WHOIS indicates they are all dynamic BellSouth.net IPs geolocated to Carrollton, Georgia, USA. (e.g. in this edit, 184.37.2.116 admits to being the same person who made this edit as 98.92.249.28.) The editor has recently indicated his contempt for the system, taunting that because he has a dynamic IP, that "maybe you will succeed in getting this dynamic IP address banned for a few days too", limiting the repercussions against his inappropriate edits. He has been active at Chronology of the Bible (and its Talk page) and at Talk:Jehovah's Witnesses beliefs. The anonymous editor has been 'arguing' (really, just asserting that he doesn't like it) for several days for the deletion of Jehovah's Witnesses beliefs (see Talk:Jehovah's Witnesses beliefs). After being told an anonymous editor could not complete the nomination process, yesterday he 'threatened' that he would create an account ("Do you honestly think I cannot create a user account? really?") Today, a newly registered account, with no other edits, has claimed at the Talk page that, "I had to agree with the anonymous user above, this page seems to be highly slighted against witnesses, so I went ahead and completed the deletion request for the page for the anonymous user, since they weren't able to do so themselves." Whilst there would be no problem if the editor freely admitted to being the same person, there is a clear and deliberate attempt to mislead, by claiming that another editor supports his view. Jeffro 77 (talk) 09:40, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * The editor has since claimed the other nominator was a friend of his (ergo a meatpuppet). The anonymous editor has now created an account as Willietell.-- Jeffro 77 (talk) 09:44, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Comment: If, as I suspect, Spudpicker01 is the same individual who has previously posted comments as an IP address and is now claiming to be someone else, it's an act of deception and bad faith, but at this stage it's a pretty minor infraction. He's being a nuisance, but it's probably better to ignore that and deal with any issues he raises later, should he choose to stick around. A matter of picking your battles. BlackCab (talk) 11:13, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Perhaps. But this is not his first instance of demonstrating bad faith. As indicated above, he's previously shown contempt for Wikipedia's policies. He also did so when he earlier claimed, "I haven't violated Wikipedia's rules...YET." It would not seem that his behaviour is going to get better at this point.-- Jeffro 77 (talk) 11:28, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
. Per the privacy policy, CheckUsers do not publicly link accounts with IP addresses. WilliamH (talk) 10:35, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * The IP is dynamic, so there is not a request to publicly link to a specific address. However, if the IP geolocates to the same area, it is a reasonable confirmation of sockpuppetry.-- Jeffro 77 (talk) 10:50, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

It is very that: are operated by the same individual. WilliamH (talk) 22:23, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * IPs blocked 1 week on behavioral grounds; Willietell blocked and tagged as a sock. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:26, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Master account blocked for a week. -- Avi (talk) 17:16, 15 December 2011 (UTC)