Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/DariusJersey

User:DariusJersey

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets

Daverotherham 17:28, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
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RichardColgate has created a suite of non-notable pages of no useful or encyclopaedic content, but name checking Darius and cronies: Daren O'Toole created 12-8-'06 Richard Bisson ditto Roads Inspectors created 29-8'06 RichardColgate has also done most of the development of the entry Darius J Pearce that DariusJersey cheekily and unethically created on himself, right up to the past few days. He contributes to the more useful and notable pages on Progress Jersey, Centre Party (Jersey) and Jersey Democratic Alliance], but makes comments Darius would have done, without being seen to be him. RichardColgate made several contributions, and CathyTurpin one, to the deletion review on Darius J Pearce, without declaring any link, although complaining of my own declared partisanship. He also contributed clandestinely to the deletion review on [[Darius Pearce, the previous article deleted for non-notability on Darius. Both RichardColgate and DariusJersey have contribution histories cut off at the start of May 2006, with no earlier edits available for examination, although they both seem to have been already experienced administrators at that point. Richard's contribution 05:31 10 July 2007 Talk:Conservative liberalism is a re-ordering, but still in Darius's style, of Darius's recent declaration as a Liberal Conservative. I am not sure if it is in the public domain, but he circulated it widely. Richard's contribution 22:19 5 July 2007 User talk:Daverotherham drawing my attention to a good faith edit of his concerning a party colleague of mine is very similar to DariusJersey's of 05:49 4 September 2006 Although Richard accuses me of playing party political games on Wikipedia, it should be noted that his first action in this field was 02:57 2 May 2006 Jersey Democratic Alliance where he proposed deleting the entry on our party for not bothering to update our election website after the election. He continues to be mischievous, most recently by demanding a higher level of citations on the JDA entry 03:52 13 July 2007 Jersey Democratic Alliance than the example he sets on his own CP(J) entry 03:43 13 July 2007 Centre Party (Jersey). This latter edit also provides further evidence of dishonesty by now citing Paul le Claire as party leader, contrary to his claim in the deletion debate for Darius J Pearce, and in other complaints about me, that the latter is the leader. CathyTurpin's contrib 02:57 4 July 2007 Deletion Review/log/2007 July 3 shows the identical idiosyncratic punctuation and spelling - "concensus" -  to RichardColgate, and given the same interests, is highly probable to be the work of the same writer. I am openly a member of a rival party, so I need neutrals to rigorously check this, lest I be suspected of malicious accusations. User:RichardColgate and User:CathyTurpin are almost certainly sockpuppets, and at the very best extremely compliant meatpuppets, who do not even edit the material they are told to post for spelling and grammar. The puppeteer is Darius J Pearce aka User:DariusJersey, dominant intellectual, although not official leader, of the Centre Party (Jersey) and Progress Jersey, and veteran online gamer.
 * Evidence RichardColgate, despite being unknown to rival political activists in Jersey, creates and edits articles, and contributes to talk pages relating to Jersey politics, and especially matters relating to the Progress Jersey group, or promoting the notion that all minor parish and ward functionaries are notable politicians. He displays a great deal of inside information, and has a very similar style to Darius's own in Talk page discussions, as does CathyTurpin: Particular signifiers are the avoidance of commas betwen clauses of a sentence, although not items of a list, and the mismatch between the superficially erudite tone and the erratic spellings, e.g. concensus and inconsequent syntax. However,although Darius writes to the local paper and sends circulars in the same style, Richard only writes on Wikipedia. His personal details, as listed on his User page are similar to Darius's in all the major details. He has no trace of any other internet activies on Google. Darius, on the other hand is revealed by Google and Yahoo! to be an online gamer, presumably used to operating fictional personae.
 * Comments

I'm sorry, I don't see enough here to conclude that these are sockpuppets. Given some of your allegations above, it may be worth taking this to the conflict-of-interest noticeboard, but I can't conclusively say there's any sockpuppetry afoot on the above evidence. You could also consider Requests for checkuser if the accounts have been used abusively. MastCell Talk 16:46, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Conclusions