Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Nordic Crusader

User:Nordic Crusader

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

Muntuwandi 02:18, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Saw my name pop up here. Don't really see how I can be a puppet of NC when my first edit was 6 months before his. --Hayden5650 07:43, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Evidence
 * The editors both claim to be from New Zealand.
 * Nordic Crusader has been blocked indefinitely, recently User:Hayden5650 made edits to Nordic Crusader,s talk pagediff.
 * Similar pattern advocating a racist ideology and promoting Nordicism. Nordic Crusader with the username and Hayden5650 with significant contributions to nazi related articles. All this is apparent from the Users talk pages egversion dated 18th June 2007.
 * Comments
 * This is a very difficult case for me. I've spent almost a half hour looking through contribs, talk pages, etc., and I'm still not sure.


 * The edit to Nordic Crusader's talk page, just half an hour after NC signed off, is highly suspicious. Also, both users have been blocked for abusive editing and sock puppetry, so it's not inconceivable that this is another sock in the drawer.  The statement that "I had an account for six months, so I can't possibly be a sock puppet" is a weak argument.


 * Note also the frequent use of simple sentences with exclamation points in the unblock requests, and the generally evasive attitude. This is circumstantial evidence, but it counts.


 * That being said, these editors do not edit exactly the same articles, and they seem to have worked in different modes. I would not recommend hammering down an indef block without further evidence or a checkuser. Shalom Hello 14:03, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Nordic Crusader has been indef-blocked by another admin for disruption. I agree with Shalom; I don't see enough circumstantial evidence to say that Hayden's a sockpuppet here. If there is a strong suspicion, you could take it to checkuser requests as a possible block-evading sockpuppet. MastCell Talk 17:32, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Conclusions