Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Jebbrady (2nd)

User:Jebbrady

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets

Lisasmall 19:32, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Report submission by


 * Evidence

To save space here and your time, please glance at any of the archived or active article talk pages on Herbert W. Armstrong for examples of Jebbrady using various IP's and then manually typing in his Jebbrady name, rather than signing in. This practice means his activity is dispersed among at least three accounts and is very difficult to track in article history pages, where the manually typed "Jebbrady" does not appear. It has been explained to him by more than one editor, more than once, that the manual signature is not enough, and why. In violation of the explicit policy laid out in Sec. 2.2 of WP:SOCK, "Avoiding scrutiny from other editors," he continues to use multiple IP's and the typed sig, rather than signing in as Jebbrady and using a tilde sig. There is no question that Jebbrady and the first two IPs listed are all one person; he acknowledges it when he manually adds his signature to the IP tilde sigs.

Evidence for the third IP puppet differs. This account 72.68.9.131 may be a meatpuppet rather than a sockpuppet, or it may be an innocent situation in which a brand-new account on Wikipedia has an editor who knows what a barnstar is, knows how to give them out, and goes immediately to grant one to one and only one deserving individual -- and makes no other contribs at all.

Please see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:WQA#User:jebbrady_.28and_puppet.3F.29_versus_WP:SOCK.2C_WP:OWN.2C_WP:CIVIL.2C_etc. here] for numerous WP:WQA comments from me and from other editors regarding his persistent use of sockpuppets.

Please see here for the first SOCK report July 21 and its resolution.

The July 26 intervention by MastCell is here.

The July 29 intervention by MastCell is here.

Please see here for my July 29 - July 31 messages where I followed up his violation of initial sockpuppet warning by asking a third party (MastCell) to gently intervene, rather than just file a second formal report at that time. At that point, I was still assuming GF; but see subsequent developments and current conduct.

Please see this part of MastCell's talk page for yet another editor's third-party expression of concern on August 10 re Jebbrady's puppetry, followed by a comment by me on August 17.

Please see User_talk:EdJohnston for EdJohnston's August 3 attempt to correct this behavior.

The behavior continues.


 * Comments


 * Conclusions
 * Ok, I'm convinced that his use of multiple IPs is a problem, so I've blocked each one listed here from editing anonymously; he should still be able to edit under his username from any of these IP addresses. Of course, this is only one facet of the problem, and I advise you to start a user conduct RfC, if you haven't already. --Akhilleus (talk) 03:29, 23 August 2007 (UTC)