Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/WhatamIdoing/Archive

29 December 2015

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24 hours later, a new user suddenly begins making a series of identical edits: When the edits are reverted, WhatamIdoing defends Wassan.anmol, questions other of my edits , and then tries to block any further edits of this type ( removals). Useddenim (talk) 15:18, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Initial edit
 * (19:47, 26 December 2015)
 * Sock edits
 * (19:39, 27 December 2015)
 * (21:00, 27 December 2015)
 * (21:37, 27 December 2015)
 * (21:45, 27 December 2015)
 * (22:00, 27 December 2015)

Comments by other users
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Hi, User:Useddenim. Have you figured out TemplateData is for yet, and why it should not be blanked from any template that is used in the mainspace? You did not reply to either the message on your talk page or at Template talk:MLBplayer about this, and you have not cleaned up your mistakes, so I'm kind of guessing that you haven't learned about this new, machine-readable structured data system. I'll go revert your erroneous blanking in the meantime; it's obvious from your comment at Template talk:MLBplayer that you wouldn't have chosen to revert this except that you didn't understand what it was.

As for this SPI: Dozens of editors add TemplateData, not just me, so if "added TemplateData" were an excuse for an SPI, then you would have to accuse User:Salix alba, User:GermanJoe, and many more, too. In this case, the TemplateData that you reverted was all added as part of a Google Code-in task that is being supported by WMF developers. This work is also documented at T117499. GCI is restricted to kids aged 13 to 17, so unless you believe that my first edits were made when I was somewhere between three and eight years old, you should probably withdraw this SPI. It's not going anywhere with this kind of "somebody who knows about an obscure technical tool noticed that I screwed up a few edits related to that obscure technical tool" logic anyway. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:48, 29 December 2015 (UTC)


 * The edit that WhatamIdoing questioned involved Useddenim no-comment reverting an obviously good-faith (if sloppy) IP edit as if it were vandalism. Regardless of any animosity between the editors, that is a legitimate action to take issue with. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 18:54, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * This does not look like sockpuppetry. Closing case. Mark Arsten (talk) 22:33, 29 December 2015 (UTC)