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Life.temp banned as sockupppet
I hope it's okay to bring this up on a talk page because this is a question about process. Apparently User:Life.temp, one of the involved accounts, has been blocked as a sock puppet. But I can't figure out how, why, who the other account was, etc. I asked the blocking administrator but have not yet heard back. Depending on how far this goes it might affect people's take on what has been going on. Does anyone know the details? Thanks, Wikidemo (talk) 04:54, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks like the result of a checkuser link. R. Baley (talk) 05:15, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * The puppet master account was User:Bsharvy who apparently has been running several sockpuppets, but it does not appear that he/she was previously involved in this article. The most recent articles that the puppet master account was involved with were Anti-Americanism, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Korean cuisine. Kossack4Truth (talk) 12:48, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I want to add the following: clarifying that I am not accusing remaining exclusionist editors of any wrongdoing whatsoever in this matter, and that any such accusations against them by other editors would be inappropriate. Kossack4Truth (talk) 12:55, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the links and pointers. I agree that we shouldn't accuse specific editors of sockpuppeting just because one was caught.  But I do think we should be extra careful (as I just mentioned in my article on the Obama talk page), especially given that this one is described as being a "skilled" and persistent.  Without accusing anyone specifically I think it might be a good time to finish up the two outstanding sock puppet reports and put them to bed.  Wikidemo (talk) 17:14, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Wikidemo, we need to put all of this sockpuppet nonsense behind us. I thought that Life.temp could have been a "bad hand" account by an inclusionist. I don't know. When it comes to intrigues, I am clueless. Let's just work together to make the article better, the next six months are going to be hard enough without attacking each other. Kossack4Truth (talk) 17:36, 15 June 2008 (UTC)