Wikipedia talk:Sockpuppet investigations/Electriccatfish2

Hello, this is coming from the IP that seems to be identical to that of Electriccatfish2 This is a second-hand computer and I have never posted aany content to Wikipedia, nor have any of my family members who use this computer that I know of. I'm not asking for a clean slate, it doesn't matter to me because I rarely use Wikipedia. But I would like to apologize for Electriccatfish2 and his/her actions if they were the previous owners of my laptop.

However, something confuses me; Their account was edited today, November 1st, at around 7. But at that time no one was using the laptop. What could have caused this?
 * Well, I'm not sure what you mean when you say their account was edited. Their account hasn't done anything since they retired. Automatic  Strikeout  20:47, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Just because your laptop is secondhand does not mean that the previous owner had your IP address. The address is dependent on your Internet service provider as well as your exact geographical location, so when IP addresses get re-used, they are passed on to other members in that location with the same ISP. Especially with dynamic assignment like most consumer Internet connections, there is a lot of re-use that goes on; it may not be attributable to the previous owners of the computer, though. Elizium23 (talk) 21:04, 1 November 2012 (UTC)