Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Justpassinby (2nd)

User:Justpassinby

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets
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Bondegezou (talk) 17:26, 18 March 2008 (UTC) additional sock added. Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:17, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Justpassinby has a previous history of sockpuppetry in order to avoid a ban. Justpassinby is a single-purpose account editing pages around the rock band Pure Reason Revolution, including a history of tendentious editing and vandalism (see User_talk:Justpassinby). The lead musician in Pure Reason Revolution is called Jon Courtney and, last time, there was also suspicion that Justpassinby was behind the account User:Joncourtney. Since then, an article on Jon Courtney was created: after failing to get it removed in an AfD, Justpassinby vandalised the page. After that edit was reverted, there was a second dubious edit by the Joncourtney account soon after.
 * Evidence

Justpassinby also these days openly edits as 86.141.25.254.

Guilty as charged of not logging in, although Tango says it's allowable to do as he sometimes does it. I think you'll find that all the changes I have made recently are fully referenced or have been removals in keeping with Wiki Policy. Surprising that Bondegezou makes these accusations when he has just tried to advertise a forthcoming release by this band on the page. Changes Yes, Vandalism, no.Justpassinby (talk) 17:37, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * The particular point of concern is over the Jouncourtney account. Bondegezou (talk) 15:20, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * How can you deny vandalism when you relpaced an entire article with the following paragraph?

"Jon Courtney plays a guitar in a group that is shite. He can't sing, and writes absolutely meaningless lyrics and composes 'music' in strictly 4/4 time. His band last played on October 15th, and will next play on April 12th. Now, I ask you, is that a band that's going anywhere? " Thedarkfourth (talk) 16:59, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for that input, Thedarkfourth. Justpassinby's vandalism concerns me too and is important context. However, the question of concern here is not whether Justpassinby has vandalised pages—that is well-established and he has been previously blocked for that—but whether Justpassinby is also behind the account Joncourtney, which has only made two edits, both of which constitute vandalism and both of which seem to fit a pattern of editing by Justpassinby (see also the previous sockpuppetry case).
 * So Jusstpassinby has used the pseudonym Joncourtney before? I would have thought he'd at least use a different account name this time!Thedarkfourth (talk) 22:35, 19 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I have added an additional IP, which this editor was using to avoid a current block. He left a message at the talk page of the administrator who declined to unblock identifying himself and then resumed editing. This IP has been blocked to help enforce the current block of the user. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:17, 22 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Justpassinby has now been indefinitely blocked for multiple sockpuppets and other abuses: see User_talk:Justpassinby. Bondegezou (talk) 16:00, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

I know it's a bit out of date now but I just got a message from Jon Courtney himself saying that he was unaware the page had even been tampered with (and, by the way, he said he thought it was "pretty cool", not that that's relevant but...). Before anyone says I have a conflict of interests or anything, I don't know Jon Courtney; I messaged him on myspace asking him about this incident. I'm not even on his friends list.Thedarkfourth (talk) 17:41, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

has blocked both accounts. No further action is required. Jehochman Talk 13:47, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions