Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/SalvNaut

User:SalvNaut

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

&mdash; Arthur Rubin | (talk) 00:09, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Immediately after User:MarkCentury was blocked for WP:3RR in Steven E. Jones, User:SalvNaut made the same edit.
 * Evidence
 * MarkCentury's edits (from WP:AN/3
 * Base edit 15:12, August 1, 2007
 * 1st revert: 21:53, August 1, 2007
 * 2nd revert: 22:12, August 1, 2007
 * 3rd revert: 22:17, August 1, 2007
 * 4th revert: 22:29, August 1, 2007
 * blocked 22:46, August 1, 2007
 * SalvNaut
 * 23:25, August 1, 2007
 * 23:35, August 1, 2007

The evidence is very strong that these are sock puppets. Aside from the revert warring - the alleged evasion of 3RR occurred less than an hour after MarkCentury was blocked - an examination of SalvNaut's contribs shows a concentrated interest in 9/11 conspiracy theories. It is not beyond the scruples of some POV editors to use sock puppets to win an argument, and I suspect that's what happened here. Shalom Hello 03:50, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Comments


 * Conclusions
 * MarkCentury fits the definition of a single-purpose account--his contributions all relate in some way to Steven E. Jones, and he jumped right into a controversy in his very first day of editing. The similarity between his edits and SalvNaut's, especially the reverts given above, strongly suggest that both accounts are operated by the same person. Since MarkCentury is the newer account, I'm indef blocking MarkCentury, and giving SalvNaut a 48-hour block. --Akhilleus (talk) 15:08, 22 August 2007 (UTC)