Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/87.194.4.21

User:87.194.4.21

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

--Keithpickering (talk) 05:27, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

87.194.4.21 claims to use 20 IP addresses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Galileo#Effort
 * Evidence

... one of which must be (from context in link cited above) 217.41.51.240

From the talk page of 87.194.4.21 we can see his interests include History of Science (Newton, Galileo, Pythagoras, Aristarchus, Richard Dawkins, Dennis Rawlins, Karl Friedrich Gauss, Discovery of Neptune), linguistics, Phillip R. Bennett, Warren Buffett, Meredith Hunter, and motorcycle gangs.

Also intersted in Richard Dawkins, Meredith Hunter, motorcycle gangs, and history of science are: 217.41.51.240 (previously mentioned); and: 86.145.11.103 81.149.223.218

217.41.51.240 removed all references to Dennis Rawlins from the article on Aristarchos of Samos. Note that the results of Rawlins' work remained in the article, only the references by which one can verify the content were removed.

Also interested in editing Phillip R. Bennett and motorcycle gangs is: 86.150.99.135 who, in late February 2008, tried to get sysop Cutler to delete Dennis Rawlins' biography.

When sysop Cutler showed no interest in removing Rawlins' biography, 217.41.51.240 edited the talk page of the bio on Cutler J. Cleveland -- a physicist with interests substantially similar to sysop Cutler -- complaining of suspected sockpuppetry by CJC. (NOTE: Cutler J. Cleveland may or may not be the same person as sysop Cutler. CJC may not even be a WP editor. It seems improbable that either one is a sockpuppeteer.) Also editing the talk page of Cutler J. Cleveland, complaining of sockpuppetry were:

86.138.235.117 (who also complained that Rawlins' bio seemed autobio.) 81.158.197.91 81.158.207.204 Note that all these edits to the Cleveland article's talk page occured during 4 days, March 7-11 2008, less than 2 weeks after the attempt to get sysop Cutler to delete the Rawlins bio.

On March 7, 2008, user 12.77.38.72 added a polite request to the user talk page of 87.194.4.21: "Please refrain from disturbing the pages of Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett. Thank you." Four days later, user 81.158.207.204 responded on the user page of 12.77.38.72: "Go to Hell."

On the user:talk page of Eppyie, 217.41.51.240 complained that Cutler Cleveland had a number of sockpuppets, supporting similar suggestions in the same paragraph by: 92.11.226.135 81.153.175.88 This also complained that user KonaScout was a sockpuppet of Cutler J. Cleveland.

On the user:talk page of Keithpickering, 87.194.4.21 makes impolite remarks (including "GTH"), while implying that he is the same person as 86.145.11.103

81.149.223.218 has also edited Aristarchus of Samos, Dennis Rawlins, and Meredith Hunter, as well as eliminating critical comments made to the talk page of 87.194.4.21


 * Comments

In addition to being a sockpuppeteer, this person is also a vandal. Victims so far include (but are not limited to) biographies of Warren Buffett, Richard Dawkins, Dennis Rawlins, Charlie Munger, and Aristarchus of Samos.

There are very likely other sockpuppets for this person, and I will be updating this when I can. Rawlins believes he knows who this person is, and may at some time go public.


 * Conclusions

All the IPs are stale (haven't edited for two months or so, bar one). It's probably much easier to just monitor the contributions of the main IP, and list at WP:AIV if its disruptive behaviour continues. I don't plan on blocking a whole load of IPs without knowing how stable they are. GBT/C 11:16, 11 May 2008 (UTC)