Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/NotThatJamesBrown

User:NotThatJamesBrown

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer

(previously banned for sockpuppets)
 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

Randomized (talk) 20:34, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Electrical Sensitivity article has been plagued by this user with constant unsupported reverts and accusations for over a month. The user operated with many IP addresses (many of which were banned due to vandalism to wikipedia's pages) through the use of the prohibited TOR open proxy, which resulted in the article being given indefinate Semi Protection.
 * Evidence

The user then starting using two earlier created accounts, NotThatJamesBrown and PleaseInsertGirder. The former continued on with the reverts and the latter backed the user up on talk  and started editing the same articles (wifi, mobile phone radiation and electrical sensitivity) at the same time.

It's so frustrating and is very clearly the same user, who seems to be using every trick in the book to try and get his way. Both have accused me of 'tenditious editing'.

Having spent the last 3 hours looking into this, I do believe that this is the same user that was banned a few weeks ago - 'Unprovoked'. He edited the same articles and according to the case report he edited entirely through the TOR proxy.
 * Comments

The IP's he/she used through the TOR proxy to edit electrical sensitivity were:

68.40.51.236 *

77.37.16.189 *

72.44.35.170 *

83.157.218.201

66.229.169.21

89.131.198.74 *

72.43.122.208 *

84.16.252.126 *

72.43.122.208 *

88.84.144.193 Accused of being puppet of 'The Fence' and ban

81.209.59.212 Auto-reverts by wikibots followed by ban

88.80.200.138 *

88.80.5.3 Blocked for 1 month for disruptive edits

65.23.158.193 *

asterix * indicates subsequently banned after edit

Update: He has now waded in with username 'PartyOfive'. Same style, same articles edited and the same accusation of tendentious editing to a different user.

I have asked for help at Requests for checkuser/Case/Unprovoked. Jehochman Talk 13:55, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * Per Requests for checkuser/Case/NotThatJamesBrown, all these accounts are using open proxies. This, combined with the above evidence, leads me to conclude that there is abusive sock puppetry happening here. All of the accounts will be blocked. Jehochman Talk 14:39, 2 April 2008 (UTC)