Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Leonhart178

User:Leonhart178

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

Kww (talk) 02:26, 20 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Evidence
 * Came back by leaving notices that he was "back" on the talk pages of the two editors he had harassed and the admin that had blocked him under the Leonhart178 persona.


 * Comments
 * User:Leonhart178 was blocked for gross incivility and threats including: . User:Zbeeblebrox278 has admitted point blank to being a sock of Leonhart178 created for the sole purpose of circumventing the ban. Redfarmer (talk) 02:32, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
 * May i (Zbeeblebrox) make a comment? As my user page states i did come back, i told you about it because i wanted you to know who i was... I came back changed, i no longer bash wikipedia users. and yes, i did commit the sock puppet thing... i had to to get back here. sorry guys, i just wanted to be back on wikipedia. Zbeeblebrox278 (talk) 02:47, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
 * This is really a borderline case, and could be decided either way. The question is whether to believe this guy when he says he's not going to bother Redfarmer or anyone else again.  I'd certainly like to give him that chance.  I'd like to see two things before I could agree to let him edit freely:
 * 1) Acknowledge that the ban on the old account was, in fact, justified. He said it was unfair in his recent message to Redfarmer.  I think it was obviously fair.  No personal attacks and Vandalism are policies that go beyond the narrow boundaries of this website's idiosyncratic rules, and speak to a basic level of human decency.  When a user vandalizes someone's userpage and says some things which I won't repeat here, that decency is violated.  Please apologize not for "the sock puppet thing" but for the personal attacks and vandalism.  That's what matters more for your viability as an editor here.
 * 2) Show that you're here to write an encyclopedia. So far all of your edits have been taking care of unfinished business with your old account, which itself had one useful article contribution.  Are you still interested in writing articles?  If yes, go ahead.  If not, your presence here does not justify the attention we need to direct your way.

I am willing to act in the role of a mentor on a temporary basis. Let me know if this works. Yechiel (Shalom) 02:37, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Zbeeblebrox278 has left an apology on my user talk page (section heading: "Thank you!"). I believe in second chances for vandals because I have some skeletons in my own past. He has not yet fulfilled the two criteria I delineated above, but I will repeat my request, and hopefully he can stay. He's been blocked three months; I'll let that stand as "time served." Yechiel (Shalom) Editor review 18:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions