Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TrancerCZ/Archive

10 April 2012

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For Sock1, Sock2, IP1 and IP2 see the video linked to [ here], where whoever this is openly admits to operating all those. IP3–IP5 also appear in the video, although they are not explicitly stated to be socks, and IP6 has similar editing behaviour.  It Is Me Here   t / c 15:33, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

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Note that around 9:20 of the video the speaker actually appears to be logged in to MeReallyHatesMuslims (of course, anything can be faked, but is it worth it?). I think that this user is actually moved by a primordial sentiment of fairness which is not inappropriate in itself - of course, the problem is that doing "research" in this way is unacceptable. A dataset of one tells us nothing - in fact, he is jumping to wrong conclusions, such as that the proxy was banned for a year because it was Christian rather than because it is a WP:Open proxy. I didn't see the stricken "Christian" edits but maybe they were struck out because he mentioned living person, or just because an oversighter happened to see those. To get good data he would have to troll this way from dozens of accounts of each "religious" persuasion, and the disruption would be a huge, huge problem.

So if you the poster of this happens to be listening - there are simply kinds of research that are blocked for ethical reasons; get over it. It's not like we burned down your lab that was trying to find a cure for cancer because you were using a few mice to experiment on. So much of what is done on Wikipedia is tracked and publicly available that there's no need to resort to vandal tactics to create fresh test cases. Also bear in mind the potential fallout. I really wonder if whatever creepy spook agencies track these things are so sophisticated that you can post this stuff about how Allah is so great and you want people killed and you won't have trouble the next time you get on a plane because they know you're really just an internet troll. Wnt (talk) 16:03, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
It looks like all of the IPs listed and both accounts are blocked. There are no sleeper accounts that I see either, so I'll mark this for close. If there is more activity, please feel free to refile. TN X Man 16:25, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Moved to correct sockmaster. Elockid  ( Talk ) 23:14, 10 April 2012 (UTC)