Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Theirrules/Archive

Evidence submitted by DIREKTOR
Requesting assistance with an obvious and disruptive sockpuppet account, the sock (Theirrulez) accidentally signed his userpage comment "Theirrules". Very likely other as yet unkonwn socks are involved, IP or otherwise. Widespread sockpuppeteering can be shown to have taken place across multiple projects. The sock account was created here four days ago having been blocked on itWiki  and has already engaged in WP:EW on multiple articles against several users     , attacked other editors, blanked articles  and has attempted to CANVASS editors (mainly in Italian) and form a WP:CLIQUE directed against me personally for opposing his/her edits.

In addition to all this, the sock account has restored edits of confirmed sockpuppets (such as User:Ragusino, User:Luigi 28, User:Giovanni Giove, etc.) all over the project, among other circumstances also in avoidance of a semi-protection placed to keep them out on the Maritime Republics article. For years now, the articles in question are under continuous "attack" by this group of banned sockpuppeteers who have thus far created dozens and dozens of sockpuppets that pushed the same controversial POV edits the sock account is edit-warring to reintroduce. There are so many socks they are continuously banned out of hand per WP:DUCK (User:Butler.banana was just blocked yesterday). In fact, those articles are so obscure nobody edits them - nearly all edits are sock edits (and their removal). -- DIREKTOR  ( TALK ) 18:17, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah. Nice try. :) -- DIREKTOR  ( TALK ) 19:29, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims. I am also theirrules, but I forgot the password to log in the account so simply I start using my italian account (User:Theirrulez) as a global interwiki account to edit here on en.wiki.

You can also check my user page on it.wiki and read that I refer to this incident. You can also see from contributes of User:Theirrules that it edited on the same articles I'm now contributing as user:Theirrulez use to do: San Menaio, Rodi Garganico, etc. And you can also check that User:Theirrules's account is not more operative since I forgot the password. :)

I do that in complete good faith, and If admin prefer to block my old account "User:Theirrules" no problem for me (I can't use it -and I didn't- since the time I lost my password) Can happen to forget passwords. Best regards.

Sincerely, --Theirrulez (talk) 19:21, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
old account tagged accordingly as a former account, no evidence to show that Theirrules has been using any other accounts except their previous one, nor that they have been using IPs abusively. Losing a password to an old account and starting a new account is not a violation of WP:SOCK. If you have any other concerns against the user they need to be addressed elsewhere. The evidence presented does not show that the user has been using multiple accounts abusively. Kind regards, SpitfireTally-ho! 19:39, 2 May 2010 (UTC)