Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TLCbass/Archive

Report date May 21 2009, 19:03 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by JulieSpaulding

Recently, there has been a lot of edit warring going on between and  regarding the mentioning of French guitarist Yves Carbonne on various article pages (for example, on Extended-range bass). It is possible that these two users are both representatives of Carbonne and another guitarist called Garry Goodman. This culminated in this post to WP:AN3 (see bottom of page with the all-caps...). I urged both parties to remain civil and did some sleuthing and realised that another user,, had jumped into the fray - many of his contributions are on the Carbonne issue (for example, this edit). Now, even if THSL is not a sockpuppet of TLCbass (which the evidence is beginning to point away from), it is obvious that one or both parties, especially the IP, could be guilty of violating the three-revert rule, something I don't think has been looked at yet at WP:AN3 - which mostly contains allegations of sock puppetry. I think a quick IP check should be able to sort this one out. JulieSpaulding (talk) 19:03, 21 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Post-close note: Following email evidence from THSL, there is irrefutable evidence that THSL is not TLCbass. As such I have unblocked both accounts and apologised for any inconvenience. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 22:03, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

Evidence is pretty clear. See also this and this. Evidence of edit warring through a second account and an IP is of further concern, and therefore I am inclined to believe that they are the same person. I have blocked the IP for a month,  indefinitely, and  for three days. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 20:15, 21 May 2009 (UTC)