Wikipedia talk:Sockpuppet investigations/Pjc747

Greetings,

I would like to deliver my defense on this accusation here.

The account, Pjc747 was created, at earliest, on 13 September 2009, by looking at the earliest edit. This account was, admittedly, created by my own doing, so I could make contributions to Wikipedia, with the resources I have access to, something I was enthusiastic about, however not entirely. At the same time in history, some of my personal information was compromised by a minor case of identity theft. At that time, I had stored all of my internet account information, such as usernames, passwords, security codes, on a Microsoft Word document, and stored them on a USB flash drive, which I kept in a drawer. That flash drive went missing around this same time, I suspected it was nabbed by a perhaps housekeeper, or some other worker, as some window cleaning and carpeting had been done. I had used the pjc747 name originally for a bank account, and appointment scheduling, and used it here as well; I still use the same name on those accounts. In the immediate time following the theft, I began receiving a lot of spam, including a trojan onto my computer, and erroneous emails were being received by people in by address book. I changed all my passwords to sites I thought would be of interest to a thief. I continued to use this account for Wikipedia work, however, as a novice at Wikipedia, I did not know to much extent how it all worked, and was either oblivious or dismissing of the vandalism being done by that same account. In December 2010, when that account was blocked, I did not understand why, I likely saw the vandalism notices, but did not know what to make of them. I decided rather than continue using an account with history of vandalism, I would rather create a new account, with which to start clean, because at that time, I had no idea a wikiproject was a thing, so I had no idea of the true inner workings of the system here. I forgot about my interest in Wikipedia, largely due to the frantic holiday season ensuing, and never picked up the idea again, until over a year later. At that time, I created this account, Spartan7W, which I use to this date. Due to the fact that pjc747 is still my username for other accounts, and when I sought to open discussion on the topic I did several days ago, I inadvertently put my signature in as pjc747 as opposed to Spartan7W, and until yesterday, I had forgotten of that old account.

I can't explain as to why somebody would choose to use a Wikipedia account from a source stolen information, for vandalism, however I assume stolen information may be passed along, but that is open to speculation. In conclusion, the above is my story, the whole truth - I value the truth over even a white lie. As you can conclude with just some basic research into both accounts, no vandalism has been done from Spartan7W, this account. I have done things in full, good faith, with a positive approach to the truth, and making everything I can better, and in some cases, introduce a controversial thought or discussion thereof to produce a better product for the reader. I apologize for this unfortunate occurrence, and the trouble caused for all of you pursuing this investigation.

Emphatically, --Spartan7W (talk) 13:12, 30 May 2013 (UTC)