Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TrustTruth/Archive

Report date April 5 2009, 12:32 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Ibinthinkin (talk)

Please see the edit history by TalkTruth and TheRealGW. He states on his talk page that these are legitimate alternate users, and he created the alternate for personal security reasons. He further states on the page he created to investigate socketpuppetry in the case of 4by40, Arationalguy and Ibinthinkin that he created the second identity, TheRealGW, to take over the edits to protect himself from personal threats. This fantastical explanation is just plain bizarre. If he were trying to remove himself from exposure to people who had been supposedly (there's no evidence of a threat) threatened him on his blog, why would he then create a user with the same name he uses on the blog? And why would he link from his blog to the articles he is editing? And why would he continue to edit with both users? --Ibinthinkin (talk) 12:32, 5 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

This appears to be a retaliatory SPI for this SPI, which was started by TrustTruth. Note that User:TheRealGW appears prima facie to be a legitimate use of an alternative account. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:22, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

clear tit-for-tat report of a declared secondary account. Mayalld (talk) 08:08, 6 April 2009 (UTC) Mayalld (talk) 08:08, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions