Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Thedarkman/Archive

Report date June 11 2009, 04:18 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by J

Summary: Requesting under criteria D, as User:Thedarkman appears to be a resurrected wp:spa that began edit warring (since blocked) to include preferred revision proffered several days ago by User:Rerutled (see, ).

Background: On 30 May, User:Rerutled began altering the lead of Montreal to include mention of other cities that he believes are larger "Francophone" cities. After his edits were reverted and he was advised to gain reliable sourcing and consensus, he returned with a reference by Jean-Benoît Nadeau, which was still without consensus due to its differing definition of what is or is not a "Francophone" city. He is apparently pursuing dispute resolution to try to gain support for his preferred revision. Today, User:Thedarkman appeared, and despite 36 intervening edits since User:Rerutled's Nadeau source was last cited in the page, dug it up (and was subsequently blocked for wp:3rr). User:Thedarkman's block did trigger a subsequent autoblock, but apparently not of User:Rerutled. The two accounts both share a nexus with San Francisco in some of their early edits, and both were mostly inactive until they began editing the Montreal article (with User:Thedarkman being resurrected after an almost two year idle period). user: J  aka justen (talk) 04:18, 11 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by user: J  aka justen (talk) 06:59, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * for CU confirmation. Nathan  T 15:35, 11 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * due to proxy use. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 00:46, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Going by behaviour, I would say there is a likelihood that they are related. As such, I have blocked and tagged Rerutled. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 14:33, 22 June 2009 (UTC)