User:Highest-Authority-on-Joan-of-Arc-Related-Scholarship/AWilliamson sock puppets

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[edit] Sock puppets of Allen Williamson

User AWilliamson has been known to be an agressive editor and self-publicist on Wikipedia. AWilliamson claims he is Allen Williamson — the author of archive.joan-of-arc.org (located in St. Cloud, Minnesota) and several other sites about Joan of Arc. This user is suspected to have been using following sock puppets, of which most have been engaged in behaviour ranging from annoying to damaging: biased editing, edit wars, link spamming and vandalism. As some IP addresses seem to be located outside the US, it must be taken into account that this user may have applied IP spoofing (header forgery).

[edit] Spotted from Joan of Arc related edits

The following list of accounts and IP addresses and locations was spotted by Switisweti/HAJARS from similar behaviour concerning Joan of Arc related articles:

[edit] Spotted form elsewhere

The list of IP addresses and locations above (especially 205.188.116.11) was linked by Vyran to the following list, noticing similar behaviour on many other subjects:

  • 64.12.116.203 (United States - Virginia - Reston - America Online Inc)
  • 152.163.100.203 (United States - Virginia - Reston - America Online Inc)
  • 152.163.101.6 (United States - Virginia - Reston - America Online Inc)
  • 205.188.117.10 (United States - Virginia - Reston - America Online Inc)
  • 205.188.117.14 (United States - Virginia - Reston - America Online Inc)
  • 205.188.117.68 (United States - Virginia - Reston - America Online Inc)
  • 217.85.138.200 (Germany - Brandenburg - Frankfurt - Deutsche Telekom Ag)