Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Zweifel/Archive

Report date October 7 2009, 15:58 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by ConcernedVancouverite

It appears that these editor accounts are related to Zweifel as they have all participated in a RfD discussion that Zweifel originated. These accounts appear to be sleeper accounts which are now being used to support a point in a minor RfD discussion. However 2 of the accounts (Jonathan.wellons and Gregorus) have never participated in any RfD, AfD, etc. before and did not edit the redirect in question. I note that Gregorus has not edited since December 2006, and Jonathan.wellons only has edited for 5 minutes of editing on a single article in May 2009. Mkushnir is the most experienced of the 3 potential sock accounts, with a few AfD comments several years ago, but has not edited since April 2007, and has never commented on an RfD. Mkushnir also has not had any editing history of the redirect being discussed. I find it implausible that these 3 non-active accounts which have never commented on an RfD, and have never edited the redirect in question, would all of a sudden appear and comment without there being a connection. Here are the diffs with their comments:

Jonathan.wellons: Gregorus: Mkushnir:

As a separate point, I note that even though the RfD in question has to do with an island in New York that there appears to be a British Columbia connection as well for at least two of the users:

Zweifel commented that he attended school in British Columbia here:  Mkushnir changed his user page after commenting on the RfD to mention living in British Columbia here:


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

I am currently in China. If you check IP logs, I sincerely doubt you'll find the other people originating in China. And I still contend that User:ConcernedVancouverite is acting in bad faith here, after having been offended by my comments at Talk:Transportation in Vancouver. I do not think this has anything to do with the redirect page in question, but is simply about retribution for something I wrote on a talk page. This should stop. Zweifel (talk) 16:19, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm mainly a user of Wikipedia, not an editor. I don't feel I have enough expertise to make extensive edits on various subjects, but I am interested in the process. When I made edits to Humboldt, Kansas, I defended those edits on the talk page. I have also made more extensive contributions to Heroeswiki which you can see here:  I am most certainly not Zweifel and have never met him or her. Gregorus (talk) 21:16, 7 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * They appear to be entirely ❌. Brandon (talk) 17:50, 8 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions