Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Ottawaman


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User:Ottawaman
Comment: This user is probably the puppeteer as this account predates the rest. Additionally, this user was community banned from Wikinews for the same behaviour as has occurred here. Wikinews userpage Wikinews block log. Addit: Neutralizer as puppetmaster appears to be confirmed by his announcement of Canuckster's retirement here, a replica of a comment posted by numerous sockpuppets, as confirmed by CU, throughout the period of December 20 on ANI and VPP.
 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets

(17 December edits only)

Suspected socks per - registered in the IP ranges; to watch:

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Rangeblocks implemented by Essjay, extremely effective - all set at "anon. only, account creation blocked", one week in length: 70.50.0.0/16 70.48.0.0/16 67.71.0.0/16 65.95.0.0/16 64.229.0.0/16

Guinnog 00:58, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Report submission by:

Methodology has a history of disputatious edits on Talk:Michael Ignatieff. Now appearing at a cinema near you on Requests for comment/Sarah Ewart. Looks like sockpuppetry to me, and I don't see why a respected contributor should be dragged through this when as far as I can see she has done right. --Guinnog 00:58, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Evidence

Although that was deleted, we now have Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

Canuckster checkuser by Essjay found "a conclusion of sockpuppetry is probable based on the technical evidence." Sarah Ewart 23:46, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comments

User:Ottawaman, User:Canuckster, User:Neutralizer, and all known related sockpuppet accounts, excluding IPs, have been indefinitely blocked. Per broad consensus, if not unanimity, established on WP:ANI, Ottawaman (now Neutralizer) has been placed under a community ban, and said ban has been implemented on December 20, 2006. --210 physicq  ( c ) 20:07, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Conclusions