Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Thorburn/Archive

Report date March 12 2009 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * Evidence submitted by Eaglesfan619 (talk)

I am a new user, so I am not too familiar with how this works. I was accused of being a sockpuppet by these two users. I didn't really look into it well enough, but my understanding is that they believe I was trying to help a user vandilize a couple articles. I was shocked to learn I was being pulled into their little catfight, since I had no part in it. But what I noticed was that both of them were looking at another user in the same negative tone. They were somehow communicating with each other without ever leaving a message on the other's talk page. Both of them seem to be able to respond right back to any question, without making edits to other articles. It is a little odd for someone to log into wikipedia just to accuse someone of something. Their contributions list just seem bizarre how they go days without doing anything, but respond to anything within minutes. My feeling is that the user is using another account, and logging back into these two for sock puppet accusations, to have a third party comment. Eaglesfan619 (talk) 03:31, 12 March 2009 (UTC)


 * False. I did provide evidence did you not read the above message?Eaglesfan619 (talk) 04:27, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

I am not even going to bother with a long response to this, because it must be clear to anyone reading that this is just harassment because I filed a sockpuppet report against Rockyobody who it has now been suggested by another editor is now editing using the account EaglesFan619. While the report I made is full of evidence EaglesFan619 has filed two of these reports against other users as harassment, offering no evidence, and cannot even decide which editor he thinks is the original user and which is the sockpuppet. Other one is here. JimRDJones (talk) 04:24, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * User:Eaglesfan619 has no evidence whatsoever. I'd also like to use this disgraceful use of wikipedia as an example of User:Rockyobody's sock puppet use of User:Eaglesfan619.  Days ago User:Rockyobody threatened me after I added a 3rd and 4th ip address to User:JimRDJones's sock puppet investigation of Rockyobody, and baselessly accused me of using multiple accounts.   I also find Eaglesfan619/Rockyobody's claim that because I don't spend all my time editing articles everyday that I'm therefore a sock puppet or use sock puppets devoid of any logic.  This is simply a retaliatory attack on me and JimRDJones for trying to stop his violation of WP policy.  Furthermore, it can be evidence of sock puppetry for an allegedly new user like Eaglesfan619 to have a vast knowledge of the filing of sock puppet investigations, edit summaries when joining only 2 days ago and currently claiming to know nothing. I'm glad Nixeagle can see that there really is no connection between me and JimRDJones other than whether Rockyobody has been using sock puppets. What Eaglesfan619/Rockyobody is doing is simply harassment. Thorburn (talk) 08:15, 12 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Dunno on this one... looks like another case of folks using the "suspected sock puppet tags" to harrass other people... frankly those tags that get added to user pages need to be discontinued in favor of talk page messages. (the bot will be leaving talk page messages shortly enough). Templates on userpages really should not be added until after it is confirmed vie an SPI case or checkuser, not before. Regardless only intersecting diffs of the two mentioned accounts are those that are relared to the SPI case (see http://toolserver.org/~eagle/socks/Thorburn.html ). ——  nix eagle email me 03:46, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

submitting TWO SPI cases against somebody who has accused you of sockpuppetry, whilst attempting to remove yourself from the case where you are accused makes it difficult to WP:AGF Mayalld (talk) 08:05, 12 March 2009 (UTC) Mayalld (talk) 08:05, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions