Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Rogerfgay

User:Rogerfgay

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by -N 12:45, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Kviki is a single-purpose account used to argue that Image:PN Chalmers 300.JPG meets the fair use criteria. He and Rogerfgay added reviewedfairuse to the image in three minutes of each other  which I find highly suspicious. I also note that most of Rogerfgay's edits are to the Peter Nordin article of which this is a picture.
 * Evidence


 * Comments

Nadav1 has been recruiting editors against use of PN Chalmers 300.JPG (N now being one of them). If you had more information, you would know that Kviki is actually someone physically near me, willing to support my position. It's fair isn't it? I can recruit people on my side as well, can't I? I don't understand N's argument re: most of my edits being to the Peter Nordin page. I have only recently started editing at Wikipedia, and the Peter Nordin page has been my big project. Is that suspicious? I don't understand. Quite frankly, by now I had hoped to have done more on more pages - but the politics of the Peter Nordin page have been taking up an enormous amount of my time; thus, not much else is being accomplished. I think for some, the argument has become personal. Rogerfgay 13:36, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * N makes a strong argument based on his pair of diffs and the contribution log. Kviki should be indef-blocked as a sockpuppet or meatpuppet.  Regardless of whether he is the same person as Rogerfgay or a close friend, he has functioned as the same character for Wikipedia purposes, and that violates policy.  Regarding the dispute over that one fair use image, let me direct you all to WP:LAME.  You've wasted too much time on it - just find a resolution and move on.  Rogerfgay should be warned to avoid such behavior in the future, but no formal sanction is called for. Yechiel Man  17:59, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I am disappointed that Rogerfgay has attempted to vilify me here. I told him when the image was put up that if the copyright owner doesn't release the image, I would have to consult with others. Afterwards I asked about the image in the usual channels, Fair use review and Media copyright questions. When Rogerfgay tried to guess at the intentions of the creator of Template:Replaceable fair use, I naturally asked the person who created the template, Quadell. I never attempted to "recruit" anybody. I have nothing against Rogerfgay, but it seems that as more and more people weighed in on the issue, his defenses have reached a fever pitch. His statements that "I can recruit people on my side as well, can't I?" and "that Kviki is actually someone physically near me, willing to support my position" seem to be admissions of guilt that he used a meatpuppet. nadav (talk) 04:42, 20 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * "Recruiting" people to participate in deletion discussions is meatpuppetry. Rogerfgay is warned, Kviki indef blocked. --Akhilleus (talk) 14:43, 20 June 2007 (UTC)