Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/The Other Hand

User:The Other Hand

 * Suspected sock puppeteer


 * Suspected sock puppets


 * Report submission by
 * ThuranX (talk) 16:46, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Gratin has in the past week been the subject of some ridiculous editing problems. One editor gutted it, split off two meals which are made in the 'gratin' style, into articles, and proceeded to do a lot of redirecting of other potato based recipes. Then, on the talk, (Talk:Gratin), a surprising number of editors suddenly appeared to support his interpretation. I stumbled onto the page via recent changes, and, having no horse in the race, tried a compromise of the two sets of information. Shortly after, Michael Grossman appeared, saying that the article as it was (the older version) needed to be gutted and rewritten. He used similar tone and style to Believe it or Not and The Other Hand, and the IPs. Finding it suspicious that after months of near stagnation, four different editors suddenly appeared at the page in a couple of nights to support a radical rewrite, I brought the matter to WP:AN/I, see Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive501 As you can see, Yngvarr concluded that there probably was something untoward going on, and that TOH would be who to name. When I filed the report, the commentary at Gratin stopped. I opted to AGF, and further assume that the editor behind the accounts, having been called out as a sockpuppeteer when he first posted as Michael Grossman, had seen my report and opted to stop. I didn't push the matter further, but the section was archived ,and an IP showed up and like Michael Grossman, made their very first edit commenting against the article, and BIoN showed up just a couple hours later to agree with the IP.
 * Evidence

Yngvarr's analysis, seen in the AN/I archived thread, is brief but direct, and in line with my suspicions.

Requests_for_checkuser/Case/The_Other_Hand. All are sockpuppets of one another. ThuranX (talk) 00:47, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

All three Accounts notified. IP Behavior suggests dynamic IP, so notifications there seem pointless. User:Yngvarr also notified as a courtesy, based on his help at AN/I. ThuranX (talk) 16:50, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments

One of the suspected accounts, Believe It or Not, has begun engaging in edit warring to his preferred version. ThuranX (talk) 23:08, 27 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I expect these are probably sockpuppets, but a checkuser would need to determine any relationship for sure. The IPs are probably just the accounts logged out.  Majorly  talk  15:32, 28 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I have filed the requested Checkuser. ThuranX (talk) 20:28, 28 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * Master blocked for 1 month, with "ticking off", and named socks indefinitely with templates. As ever, dynamically allocated ip's are not worth blocking... So I haven't. LessHeard vanU (talk) 14:18, 1 January 2009 (UTC)