Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Deanrules

User:Deanrules

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

- &#10032; ALLSTAR &#10032; echo 11:11, 14 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Evidence
 * Per history of Sovereign Harbour
 * Vandalism by User:Deanhowell: here, here, here, here and here
 * Vandalism by User:Deanrules: here


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 * Comments
 * User:Deanrules created the article on October 28, 2007 initially as a serious article but has since taken to vandalizing the article under both names.

Both users have similar names. Both users have vandalism edits in the same article. However, a conclusion of sockpuppetry is not a complete certainty. One of the users could conceivably be trying to pretend that he/she was a sock in order to block the other user. In view of lack of conclusive evidence that the two users are definitely socks but clear demonstration of vandalism, any prevention of disruption should cite vandalism, not sockpuppetry. Archtransit (talk) 16:50, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Case closed. Consider filing complaint about vandalism and/or warn editors using vandalism templates. Archtransit (talk) 16:50, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
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 * Case to be re-opened, reviewed and re-closed. Archtransit has been desysopped as an sockmaster, with an occasional sideline in unblocking socks, himself.


 * Checkuser is ; one edits from a school with some good accounts (and some vandals, typical of many schools) and the other edits from an apparent residence in the same broad geographic area. Thatcher 00:39, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Deanhowell blocked as a vandalism only account, leaving Deanrules alone for now as he's now inactive and only a couple edits were vandalism. Report to AIV if vandalism restarts. Mr.  Z- man  01:21, 20 February 2008 (UTC)