Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TheThankful/Archive

Report date May 29 2009, 16:53 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Mathsci

, an apparently new account created just over ten days ago, was blocked for edit warring on Europe. His edits have been reverted by several different users, among them User:Athenean, whom TheThankful quizzed on his talk page. In addition he made related a edit to the lede of Western culture, which was reverted. Immediately after TheThankful's last edit minutes after his block, the account LemborLembor was created and proceeded to reinsert TheThankful's introductory sentence twice into Western culture. He also went to the Athenean's talk page to back up TheThankful's complaint in exactly the same kind of language. LemborLembor was informed by me that his name had been mentioned on WP:ANI and appeared there, making somewhat fishy statements in support of TheThankful. Two administrators, VirtualSteve and Cailil, have agreed on WP:ANI that the timing and the edits look suspicious. I suspect this could be block evasion. Mathsci (talk) 16:53, 29 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Different ISP, close locations. -- Luk  talk 17:07, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Another admin extended the block on master. Sock appealed and was denied by jpgorden. ——  nix eagle email me 19:17, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * Blocked the sock, its pretty obvious that is the same as the master account based on the first edit being another immediate revert to master's preferred version. That and the pattern is just loud quacking. I'm leaving it to a second administrator to determine what to do with the master account now that they have evaded the original disruption block. ——  nix eagle email me 17:09, 29 May 2009 (UTC)