Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Fake User

[edit] Unknown - Puppet: Fake User

• Fake User (talk • contribs)

The above account was created recently for the sole purpose of mass-tagging templates for deletion WP:TfD and Articles as WP:PROD see: Special:Contributions/Fake_User. I am concerned that this account may be used to stack votes by an experienced Wikipedian and am asking for a CheckUser in this instance. I am not sure who the Pupeteer of "Fake User" is. --roy<sac> ^Talk! .oOo. 12:03, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Confirmed, or well, something like that. Previously known as:

• Appropriate_Username (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log), permablocked for vandalism.
• Dirty_Fingernails (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log), blocked for 24 hours, at which point he moved to a new name.
• Earwig (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log), permablocked for, well, quite a bit of stuff.

Also created at the same time as Fake User, and tagged as DG's:

• Doppelganger_account (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• MAIN_ACCOUNT (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)
• Real_User_Name (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)

So, definately the sockpuppet of a previously permablocked user. Essjay (Talk • Connect) 00:29, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I've blocked the responsible IPs as being used to create disruptive sockpuppets; someone else can decide what to do with the accounts. Essjay (Talk • Connect) 01:59, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

What is your authority here? "Roy" asked if "Fake User" was a sockpuppet of an "experienced Wikipedian," and this is not the case. The account in question has made no edits which consist of vandalism or otherwise warrant a block. Why was my IP not blocked originally, when my username was "blocked indefinitely?" Having read both WP:BP and WP:BAN, I'm confused as to the situation here. Am I banned, and unwelcome to edit Wikipedia? If so, why was this never made clear? I've registered several usernames with the same email address, and from the same IP address several times now. Thanks. 59.20.57.129 05:48, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I am not bound by the terms of the request. My authority is to utilize checkuser to discover and prevent the abuse of multiple accounts; you have been discovered abusing multiple accounts to vandalize Wikipedia, and have been blocked for doing so. Any reincarnations will likewise be blocked. Essjay (Talk • Connect) 06:49, 18 May 2006 (UTC)