Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/PJHaseldine

User:PJHaseldine

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets

Deon Steyn (talk) 11:59, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Report submission by


 * Evidence
 * Accidentally edited User talk:PJHaseldine as User:Phase4 and corrected again as PJHaseldine: Diff. January 10, 2007, 17:43
 * User:Phase4 admist that it is continuation of Phase1 and 2  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deon Steyn (talk • contribs) 12:18, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * User:Phase4 edits User:Phase1's page:
 * User:Phase4 repeatedly edits Phase1's talk page:  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deon Steyn (talk • contribs) 12:15, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * User:Phase4 added reference to news article about Haseldine petition only days after news article appeared: diff 16 December 2007, 13:45
 * User:Phase2 also adds reference linking directly to Haseldine petition: Diff. 18 December 2007, 9:31
 * Phase = P Haseldine
 * Both users almost exclusively edits pages related to this topic (a few main ones):
 * Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial
 * Diff. December 11, 2007 recent edits by Phase 4
 * Diff. 2005 edits by Phase1
 * Investigation into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
 * created September 2005 by Phase1
 * November 2005 edits by Phase4
 * Alternative theories of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
 * Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi (Libyan agent convicted of bombing)
 * Diff. December 16, 2007 recent edits by Phase4
 * Diff. 2006 five edits by PHase1
 * Hans Köchler's Lockerbie trial observer mission
 * Jim Swire (Spokesman for Lockerbie families)
 * Diff. 19 November 2005 created by Phase1
 * Robert Black (professor)
 * Diff edited by Phase1 within hours of anonymous creation
 * Diff. 15 December 2007 recent edit by Phase4.
 * External petition for South Africa luggage swap theory by Patrick Haseldine indicates that South Africa luggage swap theory on Wikipedia is the primary source of his conspiracy theory, indicating his interest in keeping this article in line with his POV. Same article is militantly and POV edited by Phase4. Phase4 tried to censor negative info about this petition in the article by citing "Important" signatories as well as updating the signatory count as it progressed (e.g. 62-64 votes).
 * Multiple highly personal edits of own biography by the abovementioned accounts. Attempted ownership of own biography article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Socrates2008 (talk • contribs) 13:12, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

User:PJHaseldine is former British diplomat Patrick Haseldine (by his own admission: Diff) and he using Wikipedia as soapbox to push his point of view (South African involvement in Pan Am 103/Lockerbie bombing) by using sock puppet accounts User:Phase4 and User:Phase1 (used in 2005). Mr. Haseldine was dismissed from government for these allegations, but continues his campaign on Wikipedia.
 * Comments
 * Note that also uploaded this photo of Patrick Haseldine claiming to be the copyright holder. Videmus Omnia  Talk  05:06, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Socrates lied to me on my user page about this case, confirming my own suspicions that this user, Socrates, is trolling, regardless of teh rightness or wrongness of the case. Thanks, SqueakBox 19:26, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * This is a false accusation - I pointed out that his IP had been blocked in response to my POI report, however this editor does not believe this for some reason, and has consequently been posting derogatory comments about me. Please see my talk page for further comments in this regard.  11:38, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Between this and the editing evidence from the RFCU case, this is pretty convincing for Phase1/2/4 and PJHaseldine. Phase's blocked indef, PJHaseldine 1 week. IP already blocked 3 months. I checked and there is a Phase3, but it only has one edit on contribs and may be unrelated--no action taken on that one. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 00:46, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Thank you for you swift and firm action here. 11:38, 23 December 2007 (UTC)