Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Gene Poole

[edit] Gene Poole

• Gene Poole (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser)
• Centauri (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser)

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Taxman (talk • contribs) believes from personal observation while he edited with them in the same articles, that longtime users Centauri and Gene Poole are sockpuppets. One piece of proof is this post from February 2005, which shows that they were at least one time on the same computer[1]. Taxman also points to similar editing and !voting patterns in early 2005: (links in ANI thread), as well as recent alleged double-voting during a (my) recent RfA [2][3] (which did not succeed). However, Centauri and Gene Poole insist that they are merely friends who live in the same city, and that the 2005 incident was a simple mistake where one of them accidentally made a Wikipedia edit on the other's computer, without checking to see who was logged in first.[4][5] Taxman is requesting that the Centauri account be blocked as a sockpuppet [6]. Centauri, for his part, has consented to a formal CheckUser to clear his name.[7] I understand that this is not a "typical" use of CheckUser, but the situation is complex enough, that in my opinion, a CheckUser is appropriate. However, I do apologize for any extra work that this may cause to the RFCU clerks. :/ --Elonka 22:42, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I wish to strongly endorse this request, as the first step towards unblocking my primary account. --Centauri2 00:55, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Note: As before, both are on different IP ranges in Sydney. This isn't necessarily relevant, and certainly not name-clearing. CheckUser is intended to be confirming evidence, not discomfirming. There is no sensible reason the overwhelming and convincing evidence of the accounts' patterns of behavior should be outweighed by any gameable technical evidence. Dmcdevit·t 01:02, 3 November 2006 (UTC)