Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Phil Sandifer

User:Phil Sandifer

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

--Basique (talk) 00:55, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Timing between the two accounts lines up, including creation of Groupthink account in the same month that Phil Sandifer received his first and only block.
 * Evidence

Disruptive edits by the Groupthink account to List of government agencies in comics to the exclusion of anything else, and correlation of user activity between the two accounts.
 * Comments
 * Do you have any diffs of double voting, or anything that would tie them together besides timing, which appears to be completely wrong? Phil last block was 12:30, May 4, 2006, Groupthink didn't even register until 2007. If you are going to use "correlation of user activity," you need to actually provide some evidence of that, and then state how it is evidence of sockpuppetry. Mr.  Z- man  23:50, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Both accounts were shut down on January 8th, Phil Sandifer declares that he has left Wikipedia, and Groupthink that he is leaving for a time.
 * Conclusions


 * Observations from Phil Sandifer

It is difficult to even begin responding here. Suffice it to say that my January departure was hardly particularly backed by an actual cessation of edits, that my block log has more than one block if you bother looking at, and seriously, with everything I'm involved in on Wikipedia, you think I'd use a sock for government agencies in comics. Believe me, if I had a sock I'd use it a hell of a lot better than that. Phil Sandifer (talk) 23:34, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Also, I was not even notified of this, which is apparently over a month old? WTF? Phil Sandifer (talk) 23:47, 13 February 2008 (UTC)