Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Stone Savant/Archive

27 December 2012

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User:Stone Savant who has has admitted to be Hank Harrison has editwarred to insert information regarding a selfpublished polygraphh test result into his biography, the biography of Harrison was originally created by User:Hankbuddha who also inserted information about the polygraph result into the biography on Courtney Love.. The IP 184.8.104.99 has made a series of identical edits.·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 18:46, 27 December 2012 (UTC) ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 18:46, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * Kinda doesn't make much sense to ask for a checkuser on an account that hasn't edited since October of 2005, does it? --jpgordon:==( o ) 19:44, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I think it does because it can show the extent of the COI editing. The user explicitly claims that he has not created the article, but also at first claimed not to be Harrison himself. I think that due to the COI issue it is useful if the account is tagged if it is a positive result.·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 19:57, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * But there cannot be any result for the stale user; I'm not myself sure what the limit of checkuser data is, but it's something quite a bit under 7 years. --jpgordon:==( o ) 21:15, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * The limit is 90 days. Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:19, 27 December 2012 (UTC)


 * - This is a very IP. Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:21, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not seeing the abuse here. With an account that old, even if they were the same, it could easily be a forgotten password or a WP:CLEANSTART account. Furthermore, users may edit while logged out, so I'm not seeing any evidence of abuse here. Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:21, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm inclined to agree. There's no actual abuse of multiple accounts here, and at the age of the account, it could very well be a forgotten password. ( X! ·  talk )  · @971  · 22:18, 27 December 2012 (UTC)