Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/John Wallace Rich


 * 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:John Wallace Rich

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets

--Scott Wilson 17:47, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Report submission by


 * Evidence
 * Use Of Similar Edit Summaries, Each Word Capitalised.
 * Came down clearly in favour of John Wallace Rich's supported version of the killed in action article with no explanation (diff).
 * Edited John Wallace Rich's user page to make a minor amendment with no complaint from John.
 * The Gladius is also self-admittedly a role account. --Scott Wilson 17:47, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

(1) I have removed the accusation box from my user page because I did not see the evidence page. Moreover, the links did not work for accusations or confirmations in the box and were in red, and project instructions I saw later instruct about putting the box on a user-talk page besides, not on the user page. Otherwise, I would have restored the box. John Wallace Rich 22:14, 11 March 2007 (UTC) (UPDATED)
 * Responses from User:John Wallace Rich

(2) How come my more important complaint against User:PocklingtonDan has all but disappeared? It used to be at. It occurred during an election and isn't even accessible in the page histories.
 * The SSP case filed against PocklingtonDan was deleted as vexatious. --Akhilleus (talk) 06:01, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Pocklington Dan was further harrassed - as was I - by the baseless accusation by a number IP that I am his sock puppet. I am NO ONE'S sock puppet.  This is the second baseless accusation against me, and is irritating, frankly. Stillstudying 18:29, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify this whole mess, User:John Wallace Rich made an initial sockpuppet accusation against me that was removed before I even got round to looking at it (ie almost immediately) because an admin judged it to be WP:POINT rather than a genuine concern. I'm not even sure who I was accused of being a sockpuppet of, or who I was meant to be sockpuppeting. I understand that an anonymous IP who may or may not be User:John Wallace Rich then made a further claim of sockpuppetry against me, claiming that User:Stillstudying was my sockpuppet, or vice versa. Just to state that I believe that as of today both claims have been dismissed by admins without detailed investigations as lacking evidence. I am not a sockpuppet of anyone, am happy to submit to any checks to clear any such allegations up, and would advise that making sockpuppetry claims against others is not a worthwhile defence against sockpuppetry allegations against yourself. Such retaliatory claims, however baseless or otherwise, are irrelevant in considering the sockpuppetry claims relating to your own account. Many thanks - PocklingtonDan (talk) 18:18, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

(3) Scott Wilson has a lot of different users editing his user page. Why does he complain about it hypocritically? John Wallace Rich 05:34, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Comments


 * Conclusions

Sock blocked indefinitely, puppetmaster has been blocked for 3 weeks as a reset of the block the puppet was used to evade. Seraphimblade Talk to me 13:40, 28 March 2007 (UTC)