Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/GooseCreek
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[edit] GooseCreek
| main edit links history watch talk Filed: 16:12, 30 December 2007 (UTC) |
- GooseCreek (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser)
- PennState21 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser)
- Neutral Good (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser)
- Harry Lives! (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser)
We appear to have a swarm of sockpuppets or meat puppets disrupting Talk:Waterboarding#Shibumi2 second attempt at new article lead. There is an ongoing RfC at Talk:Waterboarding/Definition about the question of whether Waterboarding is torture or not. This is a high importance, high visibility political topic where there is a strong incentive for lobbying via Wikipedia.
The above editors are all either SPAs, or other accounts with low edit counts that have copied the identical formatting for their votes: ’’’Support.’’’ Please also check if any of the above match any banned users. Thank you. Jehochman Talk 16:12, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Note: - as IP editors have been directly involved in votestacking and disruption/personal attacks here, I'm including them per policy.
Confirmed - PennState21 (talk · contribs) = Harry Lives! (talk · contribs) = Shibumi2 (talk · contribs) = 68.29.174.61 (talk • contribs • info • WHOIS)
Unrelated - the other IP addresses, and there are no underlying accounts
- Unrelated - Neutral Good (talk · contribs) - Alison ❤ 19:21, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
- Question - Why has User:PennState21 not been blocked for sockpuppetry? Also, Shibumi2 cannot be a sockpuppet of PennState21; it must be the other way around, since Shibumi2 was created in early 2007 and PennState21 in late 2007. Badagnani (talk) 19:39, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
- Because I am on it ;). -- lucasbfr ho ho ho 19:40, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Clerk note: tagged and blocked the puppets. Hardblocked the IP and the main account for 2 weeks, considering the main is here since January. -- lucasbfr ho ho ho 19:40, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
- It wasn't clear from earlier, but GooseCreek (talk · contribs) is Unrelated to any of the others - Alison ❤ 19:54, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
- Are you sure Neutral Good is unrelated? It seems very suspicious that he was pushing so hard for Shibumi2 to become an administrator Chris Bainbridge (talk) 19:51, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
- Note: 209.221.240.193
User talk:209.221.240.193 has an established and demonstrated history of sockpuppetry related to articles along these political tones, which has lead to one arbitration hearing related to this, for User:DeanHinnen and User:BryanFromPalatine. Details at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Free Republic. These editors blocked here also (such as Shibumi2, the oldest) had also participated on the Free Republic article in the same time frame as banned user BryanFromPalatine/DeanHinnen, when he was socking. Would it be possible to check for accounts on Template:Ipcheck participating with multiple accounts on this waterboarding discussion? The 209.221.240.193 has also played a role in the tainted discussions there. Lawrence Cohen 19:40, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Clerk note: moving conversation on the merits of the block and its length to the talk page. Please keep it there... -- lucasbfr ho ho ho 23:34, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
- Update: Is this ban evasion? User talk:Lawrence Cohen#A question for you? Is this the type of situation that normally ends in a range block? Lawrence Cohen 16:51, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Subsequent requests related to this user should be made above, in a new section.
