User:Tommstein/Retcon-Missionary Sockpuppet Evidence

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'Retcon' - Troublemaker and vandal.
'Missionary' - Vandal and troublemaker.

Abridged Version of Proof

If you want to go straight to the hardest proof (and maybe the only proof I'll add, given its strength, although there's also tons of very strong circumstantial proof from various articles), here you go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Jehovah%27s_Witnesses&diff=31549809&oldid=31548581. To disprove allegations of sockpuppetry, 'Missionary' proposes posting without logging in, and does so with IP address 65.112.202.58. Unfortunately for him, he uses the wrong username.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Jehovah%27s_Witnesses&diff=31552115&oldid=31549809. 18 minutes later, 'Retcon' arrives to 'prove' there's no sockpuppetry, using IP address 67.166.40.198. He uses the exact same mistaken username as 'Missionary' in reference to him. It turns out, both IP addresses resolve to Denver. The odds of this are about 0.0004. If Wikipedia consisted solely of Americans, the probability would still be at about 0.01.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Jehovah%27s_Witnesses&diff=31554473&oldid=31552115. 21 minutes later, 'Missionary' realizes that they messed up their own username, and fixes it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Jehovah%27s_Witnesses&diff=31575462&oldid=31573475. 'Missionary' posts, using IP address 67.166.40.198. Unfortunately for them, that was supposed to be the address of 'Retcon'. THIS IS THE INDISPUTABLE SMOKING GUN.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Jehovah%27s_Witnesses&diff=31575846&oldid=31575631. Five minutes later, the above edit is deleted by 67.166.40.198, and it was a couple days or so until a fellow editor who had also been suspecting sockpuppetry pointed it out to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Jehovah%27s_Witnesses&diff=31582603&oldid=31577205. Later that night, 'Retcon' erases the entire 'proof' that there's no sockpuppetry (masking it in among other massive vandalism), apparently realizing how badly they screwed up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Jehovah%27s_Witnesses&diff=32069404&oldid=32068433. Over four days later, 'Retcon' changes the IP address on one of the parts of their 'proof' (who knows why, given the existence of page histories and other editors, although the new address is also in Colorado).

The evidence is pretty clear. Shortly after I put this page up, it actually led 'Retcon' to post an admission on the user page of 'Missionary', and to vandalize this page. If you have the power and it hasn't been done already, please make the appropriate bans or blocks to end these shenanigans. Also, if you can, please find any other sockpuppets this user is using, since blatant screwups of this magnitude can't be expected very often.

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