Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tsunamishadow/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets




Evidence submitted by Chasewc91
With this edit to the article All the Right Wrongs, I replaced the genres with sourced ones, one of them being rock and roll. Tsunamishadow did not like this for some reason, and removed it here based on original research and arguing that Allmusic was "incorrect" (though leaving another genre from that source, teen pop). He eventually left a fairly detailed message for me on my talk page about how Allmusic is unreliable and often incorrect, and how he listened to the album, which is apparently not rock and roll at all.

This was how I realized the IP was likely a sock of his: with the previously mentioned talk page message, he said, "I have recently discovered a genre war in the edits, namely between Yourself, a number of unregitered users and I." I looked back at the history, and the the two above IPs were the only other editors in support of removing sourced genre information. This one is a little sketchy – he has a few other edits outside this article, but the IP has only been used this month. However, I have no doubt that this is a sock of Tsunamishadow, since his genre warring was only his first edit on Wikipedia.

This should be closed immediately, since it has now been confirmed that Tsunamishadow did use this IP on accident after forgetting to log in. Please check to make sure you are logged in in the future, to avoid confusion. Thanks. If you would care to discuss any further about the genre listing on All the Right Wrongs, ping me on my talk page. SPI is not the place to discuss article changes.  Chase wc 91  22:04, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims. I will admit to the IP adress of 188.222.13.81. This is completely accidental. Usually I use the same computer to edit the articles that I need to. However when signing into Wikipedia they have the "Remember me for (30 days)" and when editing the article I had not looked to see if I was signed in. The edit that I made on All the Right Wrongs with 188.222.13.81 should not be considered vandalism and was not an attempt to vandalise the article or Wikipedia itself. Added to that being a registered user of Wikipedia for 2 years (previous username was child.harrow) and then deciding to vandalise a single page which was quite recently created would make no sense. In fairness, I didn't even know the IP address was mine until I checked it (just now). So not knowing I had not known I had not signed in was merely my act of negligence and I am sorry.

As for the other IP, I will say that is definately NOT me. The ISP is in Illinois, which is not me. I live in London, UK. Though if you trace my first IP it will say somewhere in Northern England and I have Be Unlimited broadband. Which isn't true. My ISP is currenly O2, though if they rent off Be Unlimited is out of my knowledge.

As for the article in question, I gave a number of thorough reasons why this EP should NOT be categorised under rock and roll. For starters accusing me of saying that AMG is unreliable is simply not true. What I said was as (a sort of) a final statement was Added to that AMG also talks about rock and roll as more of a fashion/culture style rather than a musical genre. and that AMG has a habit of mentioning Genres/Styles within its articles that have nothing or very little to do with the actual album. And putting it in Wikipedia would be misleading and goes aginst Wikipedia's integrity. If it would make eveyone happy i'll stop editing the article but I think this goes against Wikipedia's Five pillars. I have contacted AMG (as I have done before) about that article (AMG's article, NOT wikipedias) to clarify this.tsunamishadow (talk) 23:13, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions
Marking as closed. No action taken upon request of filer and the fact that the two IPs are from different locations. Clear editing while logged out. MuZemike 00:24, 22 November 2009 (UTC)