Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Scrooby

User:Scrooby

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

MarnetteD | Talk 23:27, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

There has been a dispute over an external link at the Eyes Wide Shut page with Scrooby. On October 4th the newly created Ouillah account put the link back in with this edit. When the link was removed a new personal attack was added here. It used some of the same language as had been used in attacks by Scrooby here and in other spots. Both editors have also edited without signing in. Scrooby from here 86.128.255.67 and Ouillah from here 86.154.217.173. Both of which trace to London, England. It is possible that this is a meat puppet rather than sock situation.
 * Evidence

This request for a sock puppet check is part of an ongoing situation that has been noted here.

As this is the first time that I have ever used this page please feel free to let me know anything that I have left undone or done incorrectly.

Tonight a further diatribe against me by Scrooby has been added here which includes that argument that because of the items that I have listed on my talk page (which are only a small sampling of a much larger set of interests) I should be limited to editing in only those areas. This is very similar to this edit by Ouillah which includes the claim that I should have my academic qualifications listed before I am allowed to edit articles. MarnetteD | Talk 01:40, 6 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Comments

To provide some additional background: the disputed link is to a website that belongs to User:Scrooby (by his admission). It was first added to the article quite some time ago - I don't have the diff, but it was by an IP that Scrooby assures us was not him. On October 2, MarnetteD removed the link as spam. Scrooby reinserted it later that day. Marnette D removed it again, at which time Ouillah appears and, as his first edit, restores it again. He then makes a very hostile series of posts on the article's talk page. If these users are in fact one and the same, it's clearly an abusive use of socks since they're participating in exactly the same content dispute. Sarcasticidealist 23:49, 5 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Just in the few talk edits made by Ouillah/86.154.217.173, I've found the following similarities to Scrooby/86.128.255.67:
 * Generally similar manner of speaking.
 * Frequent lower-casing of W in Wikipedia. Scooby, Ouillah.
 * Correct usage of period and end parenthesis in a completely parenthetical sentence. Scooby, Ouillah.
 * Referring to MarnetteD's user page as "wiki page". Scooby, Ouillah.
 * Unfortunately, I didn't find more blatant slip-ups like one signing for the other, etc., so this probably needs a WP:RFCU. For the record, this is the first addition of the external link I could find.  The IP is from Canada, not England, so I assume is unrelated. —Wknight94 (talk) 01:55, 6 October 2007 (UTC)


 * The entry from Canada mentioned above was made on August 8, 2006. Upon doing a little further research it turns out that there was an earlier attempt to add the webpage in question. The first time it was entered was here on July 4, 2006. CRCulver deleted it as linkspam (unfortunately it looks as though this member is no longer editing at wikipedia) and a brief edit war over including it ensued culminating in this . You will note that the IP address is 143.167.143.177. This address tracks to Sheffield, England. When you combine that with this information  you will find that it is possible that Scrooby was involved from the start. The connection to Montreal will remain unknown, but, this new information needs to be noted here due to the numerous legal threats that this editor has made. MarnetteD | Talk 14:15, 7 October 2007 (UTC)


 * A further thought to be added that this case may be a meatpuppet rather than sockpuppet and the research added above may further that thought. MarnetteD | Talk 15:04, 7 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Repeated Use of My Real Name By Two Wikipedia Editors

For the record, both MarnetteD and Sarcasticidealist have used my Real Name in various places on Wikipedia to make libellous and defamatory comments about me on the basis of purely circumstantial, if not fatuous, terms. Obviously this is serious because an administrator somewhere is hopping about making changes. This situation is absolutely ludicrous, but I feel I have to persist in getting the IP addresses of these two editors who have defamed me repeatedly on Wikipedia.scrooby 05:44, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

For the recored the editor above used his real name first in this edit and in this one. He repeatedly used his real name in his attempts to keep his webpage (which also uses his real name) as an external link and in his personal attacks on me. He is also breaching WP:NLT with edits like this one and in his message above. MarnetteD | Talk 11:48, 7 October 2007 (UTC)


 * It also needs to be noted that User:Ouillah used his name in this edit and that Ouillah's IP 86.154.217.173 used it in several followup edits yet there has been no request for this editor to be censured nor are there any legal threats on his talk page. MarnetteD | Talk 11:56, 7 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Conclusions

Well? What are the conclusions? Telling, that there aren't any. That is because the process is not yet finished. MarnetteD | Talk 11:48, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I am satisfied that sockpuppetry has occurred. Combined with the legal threats and single purpose of the accounts, Scrooby and Ouillah have been blocked indefinitely and the three IPs above have been blocked for one month.  —Wknight94 (talk) 16:31, 7 October 2007 (UTC)