Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Wikigiraffes

User:Wikigiraffes

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets

dorftrottel (talk) 14:59, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Report submission by

User:Wikigiraffes was recently indef blocked after repeatedly inserting WP:BLP violations. All of the account's actions were centered on the article about Julian Baggini, with subsequent attacks against User:SlimVirgin.
 * Evidence

User:NoPointofView has now, as their first edit, added this to the Workshop page of an ongoing ArbCom case, where Wikigiraffes had earlier posted very similar 'evidence', in an imho strikingly similar style and with the exact same content. There can be no reasonable doubt that NoPointofView is a sockpuppet of someone, and normally I wouldn't mind. But if it is indeed Wikigiraffes circumventing their indef block, I would remove the NoPointofView edits from the Workshop page as disruptive trolling and inappropriate forum shopping, utterly unrelated to anything in the case. Moreover, Wikigiraffes has not demonstrated any insight into the wrongness of their BLP violations and is thus prone to repeat that behaviour and should not be tolerated. dorftrottel (talk) 14:59, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Mostly agree. While it would have been better for someone other than sv to have indef'd wikigiraffes, the indef was earned.  I'm not sold that it's wikigiraffes's sock, but certainly a sock of a user unfamiliar with arbcom hearing styles and format, as well as basic policy considerations.  --Rocksanddirt (talk) 18:08, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

I wasn't going to make a big fuss about this, but basically Dorftrottel appears to be correct. I'll request a checkuser. Yechiel (Shalom) 20:10, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments

Requests for checkuser/Case/Wikigiraffes. Yechiel (Shalom) 22:46, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Confirmed by Thatcher and blocked by East718. Yechiel (Shalom) 22:47, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions