Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/John Mason

User:John Mason

 * Suspected sock puppeteer


 * Suspected sock puppets


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 * Geronimo20 (talk) 06:28, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

The article was created on 3 July 2006 by user Badeggbill. The article was then expanded and groomed by the suspected sockpuppets above, until by 18 March 2008 it looked like this, a tour de force of overblown trivia. The edits have been consistent, with a characteristic style and tone, across the suspected sockpuppets. From the outset, other editors have expressed, particularly on the first third of , their suspicions that Paul Gustafson himself, using these sockpuppets, was controlling the article. The article is now being considered for deletion, and the latest suspected sockpuppet has mentioned starting again should the article be deleted.
 * Evidence

Might be worth noting the following, too: Cheers, OBM | blah blah blah 12:50, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * Badeggbill has previously posted Mr Gustafson's address on the article's talk page, and his user name is (apparently) named after a character in Gustafson's book.
 * John Mason appears to be named after one of the schools that Gustafson teaches at.
 * And I think needs to be added to that list, too.

This is really really really unfair. As I said before, I am not a sockpuppet, I have no knowledge of the schools at which Gustafson teaches or anything other than his angling, because I have (legally) his excellent, informative videos, available to purchase online.

Incidentally it is misleading to state that I 'mentioned starting again' - i hear it as presented here, sounding like a threatening threat. I assumed the article was being deleted so as the editors who so wished could rewrite it from scratch, it being so very flawed. I have no intention of doing so myself - one man's ceiling is another man's floor.

I expect to be fully exhonerated and I would like an apology. No-one appreciates me. I took a risk, a risk to attempt to add to the sum of human knowledge - during office hours!

This whole encyclopedia idea will be doomed to a watery grave (e.g. on the seabed, though obviously not literally) if such gross injustices of carriage are permitted.

Yours, Mike Fisher 137.205.16.138 (talk) 12:33, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * Two socks blocked indef, master blocked for 24 hours.  Enigma  message 21:09, 22 October 2008 (UTC)