Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Demonesque


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the case of suspected sockpuppetry. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page. All edits should go to the talk page of this case. If you are seeing this page as a result of an attempt to open a new case of sockpuppetry of the same user, read this for detailed instructions.

User:Demonesque

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by:

PocklingtonDan 07:23, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Evidence

The suspected puppet account has made only one edit, which was vandalism, and which was reverted one minute later by the suspected puppet master, despite:
 * the edit containing nothing obvious in either text or edit summary to have alerted anyone watching for vandalism and
 * the suspected puppet master not having edited that article before

In addition:
 * the puppet account's name is "Ryan Ryushimi" and the suspected puppet master's name is listed on his user page as "Ryan" - incorrect, my mistake - PocklingtonDan 08:52, 30 January 2007 (UTC).

I believe this bears investigation as a possible puppet account set up just to intoduce vandalism whicht he puppet master can then revert. There is no hard evidence for this, but rather a string of coincidences, but this should be possible to be easily resolved by examining the IP address of both sockpuppet and puppetmaster. If there is no connection between the two, then I apologise to the accused puppetmaster but hope he understand that this investigation was launched in good faith - PocklingtonDan 07:17, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Looks suspicious. However, the point about the names is wrong - the puppet's name is Ivan Ryushimi, not Ryan Ryushimi. Eli Falk 08:19, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Comments
 * Oh, wonderful. Good, I won't revert vandalism any more. --Demonesque 22:13, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I think it is not necessary to find out whether this user was puppeting or not for a conclusion to be reached. As the 3RR rule does not apply to self reversion, this would not configure illegitimate use. The vandalised page was reverted only one minute later, whether it was a puppet or not is irrelevant because the user acted quickly to fix it. --200.103.135.215 06:02, 3 February 2007 (UTC)


 * It seems pretty unlikely that Ivan Ryushimi is Demonesque's sock, and in any event there's no policy violation here, as 200.103.135.215 points out. I think this case should be closed. --Akhilleus (talk) 02:01, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

This isn't an instance of sockpuppetry, in my opinion. Closing. --Akhilleus (talk) 16:28, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Conclusions