Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TheWho71/Archive

Evidence submitted by Ktr101
The Who71 has existed for exactly two years today. In this time, he has edited articles relating to mostly bands. Mr. Frank was created in October of last year, and in January of this year, he started to create articles in the userspace of Who71. Who71 has curiously never questioned Frank about why he has over 1,000 edits to his userspace. The page in question revolves around a fictional band and it also takes place in the future. Frank has also edited the userspace of Monday94. All three of these accounts focus their edits around music, and there is also a tendency to not use edit summaries as well. In this time, there has been no interaction between the users, which would be odd since they edit each other's articles. Although Monday has been used the longest, I believe that TheWho was created after the user forgot the password of Monday. A checkuser would be appropriate because of the fact that of the whole thousand edit to the userspace of another editor. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 04:12, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The Who71 hasn't edited on this site for quite some time. You say that you believe that The Who71 forgot their password - I would interested to know how you came about this piece of evidence. In the meantime you have three separate accounts, none of which have edited at the same time as the others, none of which has made any disruptive edits. I do not see any evidence whatsoever of any of the accounts being used to influence discussions that any of the other accounts are involved in, so I do not see how any of this could be considered evidence of very much at all, certainly not disruptive sockpuppetry. Forgetting your password is not a crime. Regards. Weakopedia (talk) 07:00, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I never did say that I believed that TheWho forgot his password. I said that I believed that Monday had, and TheWho was a follow-up account to make up for this. It is possible that they are three separate accounts owned by the same user, but they aren't the stereotypical sockpuppet in that they aren't wreaking havoc here. I believe that they are owned by one person, but they are low key in many ways. It might just be that the user edits on the accounts that he is interested in editing with. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 13:42, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

This can be closed as the user has admitted that he had the accounts. He is sorry about all of this, and not much more can be done other than adding sockpuppet templates to his accounts. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 17:22, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Comments by other users
Note that this SPI originated from an ANI thread here. -- Soap Talk/Contributions 01:08, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Mr. Frank just confirmed that the other accounts are his in this edit. Ucucha 14:23, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

CheckUser requests
Requested by Kevin Rutherford (talk) 04:12, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

- Even in absence of Mr. Frank's edit confirming the relationship, CheckUser would not help in this case, as only one of the three accounts is not stale. Also, since as far as I can tell, there was no actual disruption, I don't think it is necessary to tag the other accounts as socks. J.delanoy gabs adds 17:48, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions
Marking as closed per Ucucha and CU. Doesn't look like any abusive sock puppetry going on. –MuZemike 22:48, 28 December 2009 (UTC)