Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Wikinger

[edit] Wikinger

• Wikinger (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser)
• CBMIBM (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser)
• X41 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser)
• SMITHEGREC (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser)
• WCKinger (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser)

• Code letter: G.
• Supporting evidence: [1], [2], [3], [4].

Seems to be operating multiple accounts with the sole purpose of disruption of the project. User:CBMIBM has engaged in edits (and vandal redirects) to User:Wikinger and User talk:Wikinger, and then subsequent sock edits to User:Mayalld (and each sock's talk pages). I think Wikinger has also been operating under various IP addresses, but think that's the subject of a separate ban (which I think has expired). Giles Bennett ^{(Talk, Contribs)} 17:27, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

I refrained from vandalisms and even reverted unwanted statements placed in fourth evidence, here. Blocking me is unneeded. This talk proofs, that Wikinger-like IP's may belong to users such as Al-Bargit or Aminullah. I has nothing to do with Islam. Thanks. CBMIBM (talk) 17:49, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

To expand on my outline above (I've had the time to look deeper into this). OK, so we start with User:Wikinger with his interest in Proto-European languages, and his habit of making multiple minor edits to his talk page (see here [5] where 26 of the 29 intermediate edits not shown are done by Wikinger himself. By his own admission (next para) Wikinger has a dynamic IP, and looking at the nature of the conversation carried on with an IP editor here it's not a great leap to assume that he's conversing with himself.

Wikinger states that he has a dynamic IP [6] but professes to "resign" from tinkering with Wikipedia. He's blocked for one week on 31 December [7].

User:CBMIBM starts editing on 1 January [8], quickly starts editing Talk:Adamic language and within ten edits starts editing Wikinger's talk page for no apparent reason [9], claiming that User:216.40.255.90 cannot be Wikinger. 216.40.255.90 has been reverting Wikinger's edits at Talk:Adamic language, refactoring his comments, and generally taking 7 edits where one (unnecessary one) would have done [10].User:Nick and User:AnonMoos point out the probability of a link between any 83.0.0.0 address, 216.40.255.90, User:CBMIDBM and User:Piast [11].

CBMIBM then creates a redirect of Wikinger's talk page [12], posts a template non-sockpuppet message to his user page [13], then moves the talk page and posts the same template underneath it to prevent a redirect back (can't diff as has subsequently been speedied).

CBM then enters into communication with User:Mayalld and myself, during the course of which User:SMITHEGREC and User:X41 start editing. You can read the rest for yourself.

At pretty much the same time User:WCKinger appears on the scene, alternately editing X41's userpage[14] with CBM. WCK also creates a category for, into which he puts X41, but into which CBM puts SMITHEGREC. WCK and CBM also engage in a bit of an edit war (with an 83.0.0.0) on Blog (disambiguation).

Through it all CBM denies being a sockpuppet of anyone (on his talk page, on my talk page and on Mayalld's talk page. I think the evidence speaks for itself, however.

I appreciate that there are difficulties where dynamic IP's are used, but this whole situation is taking up a lot of editors' time and patience in trying to clear it up (and credit should go to Mayalld for his work on keeping Wikinger's talk page). Giles Bennett ^{(Talk, Contribs)} 13:09, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Likely - Wikinger (talk · contribs) = CBMIBM (talk · contribs)

I'm different from Wikinger, because he ridiculously ignored block threats, while I don't break my bans to editing user talk of Evertype. CBMIBM (talk) 15:17, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Possible - Wikinger (talk · contribs) = WCKinger (talk · contribs)

I cannot be WCKinger, because he made contradictory edits here. I still believe in unconfused PIE as Adamic, and for me Allah is ath-Thaluth al-Muqaddas, what is of course confused derivative of unconfused PIE, thus again WCKinger is contradictory to me. 79.162.58.228 (talk) 11:49, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Confirmed - X41 (talk · contribs) = SIMTHEGREC (talk · contribs) = Simio654 (talk · contribs) = Simonp12321 (talk · contribs) = Wkibitch (talk · contribs)

- Alison ^❤ 08:32, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Clerk note: blocked and tagged confirmed socks. Spebi 08:41, 12 January 2008 (UTC)