Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Irate

[edit] RunningMan

• Irate (talk • contribs) (also known as Son of Paddy's Ego (talk • contribs), IanDavies (talk • contribs) and various IPs in the 84.9.xxx.xxx range)
• RunningMan (talk • contribs)

User:Irate was banned indefinitely by Jimbo Wales in August 2005. Since then he has returned under a number of new usernames before being discovered. User:RunningMan appears to be the latest of these, displaying the same traits as the others. For example:

• Getting involved in edit wars on controversial topics, such as Harry Stanley. (Compare with User:IanDavies's contributions at Talk:Traditional counties of England.) This time, it resulted in him describing User:Dibble999 (who is a police officer) as a member of a "violent criminal gang" [1].
• A tendency to make personal attacks. (This time on User:Dibble999: see here and here.
• Curious interpretations of what is meant by "vandalism". For instance, he removed a message from his talk page [2], which was a polite request to stop personal attacks. Compare with here or here, for instance.
• A large proportion of edits are to articles about Liverpool and the surrounding area. Some of them are to articles which (other than stub sorting, categorising, copyediting, etc.) only Irate etc. has contributed to (e.g. St John's Gardens).
• The slightly cryptic content of the user pages, each in a similar vein.

--RFBailey 11:04, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Are there any recently identified sockpuppets? Essjay (Talk • Connect) 13:20, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

The bottom of this page from David Gerard's user log shows the last few to be blocked by him (he has dealt with this user several times in the past); other admins may have blocked others since. I've also seen a lot of this user, and agree that the editing pattern is stunningly similar. Aquilina 15:10, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Is further evidence required? Aquilina 15:17, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Inconclusive. Essjay (Talk • Connect) 08:37, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ian Davies Friend (talk • contribs), Ian davies friend (talk • contribs), HECTOR (talk • contribs)

These are likely sockpuppets of indefinitely banned user Irate (talk • contribs). IanDavies (talk • contribs) was already banned for being his sockpuppet. Ban evasion is listed as a legitimate reason for a CheckUser request. See also IP addresses 213.94.183.148 (talk • contribs), 86.41.196.171 (talk • contribs), 83.71.72.67 (talk • contribs) — ciphergoth 10:08, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Declined. Please don't list obvious cases; if the IanDavies block is a settled matter then the "friend" accounts and "HECTOR" can be blocked as well. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 13:49, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Irate

• Irate (talk • contribs • block user • block log • checkuser)

Poss sockpuppets of indefinitely banned user Irate (talk • contribs) aka IanDavies (talk • contribs)

Irate (talk • contribs) is indefinitely banned, and IanDavies (talk • contribs) is indefinitely banned for being his sockpuppet. Now we have Ian Davies Friend (talk • contribs) - that seems like one strange username for someone who is not Ian Davies to choose to me, but perhaps I'm wrong. — ciphergoth 00:50, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Update: he has now created another user: Ian davies friend (talk • contribs). — ciphergoth 21:06, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Update: another user HECTOR (talk • contribs) has turned up with a very similar editing style.

See also IP addresses 213.94.183.148 (talk • contribs), 86.41.196.171 (talk • contribs), 83.71.72.67 (talk • contribs) — ciphergoth 17:24, 10 March 2006 (UTC)