Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Theirrulez/Archive

Evidence submitted by Toddst1
Theirrulez has recently emerged as a rather contentious editor focused on WP:ARBMAC-related articles. This user is currently involved in a number of disputes, some of which have made it to ANI, others being waged on articles and article talk pages. This apparent sock farm using IPs from AOL is only used to further edit warring on two articles duplicating the edits made by Theirrulez as an anonymous IP:
 * House of Bučić -
 * Faust Vrančić -

Given the contentious nature of both the subject and the alleged sockmaster, I believe a CU would do well to put this to rest. Toddst1 (talk) 14:06, 1 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Per clerk note, it is entirely possible that that is the case. Toddst1 (talk) 23:50, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

No problem for the CU. But it already seems those IPs aree from another continent than mine. --Theirrulez (talk) 14:17, 1 June 2010 (UTC) Someone really believe those ip could be socks of mine? They are almost evidently some banned users coming back with an IP identity. If they are involved in some issue i'm involved I don't know, I can't control them, I just can have the most correct behaviour as often I can. Anyways since now and for the future I will never have P.S. Checking the links posted by Toddst1, I saw the n.7 (first for Faust Vrancic) is an edit made by a Croatian IP (not mentioned above) who rightly added a footnote at the Hungarian version of the subject's name. I later restored it as well. - Theirrulez (talk) 16:33, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

I think it's almost obvious I'm not the sockmaster, I already suggested it could be a banned user from another part of the world (ragusino seems to be the most probable as per clerk note) using an AOL connection to come back as IP. I would note I don't need any IP helping me in discussions or in challenging opposing editors, and whoever can understand it just reading samples from any edits of mine in talk pages, above all both articles mentioned above. Moreover I saw the same range IP is active in other ARBCOM articles where I never set foot. Anyways I want to confirm i will always be willing to being checkusered at anytime, so every doubts can be more and more cleared. - Theirrulez (talk) 03:30, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by Toddst1 (talk) 14:06, 1 June 2010 (UTC) There is duck behavior here but the fact that there might be an attempt at setting up the editor makes this worth endorsing. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 00:24, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

This looks more like than anyone else. Perhaps he's trying to set up Theirrulez? –MuZemike 23:30, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

– A CheckUser would not be able to disclose such results per the CheckUser policy. Furthermore, as I said above, this does not look like Theirrulez but another sockmaster. –MuZemike 00:41, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

No action taken at this time. Even assuming the IPs are socks of someone (in this case Ragusino), we have an entire /16 range plus one extra IP, and all of them are AOL IPs. Per it would be a very bad idea to rangeblock as there is a lot of other activity on that range. If they keep going with this disruption, then you're going to need to request semi-protection. –MuZemike 00:51, 2 June 2010 (UTC)