Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Fourdee

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the case of suspected sockpuppetry. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page. All edits should go to the talk page of this case. If you are seeing this page as a result of an attempt to open a new case of sockpuppetry of the same user, read this for detailed instructions.

[edit] User:Fourdee

Suspected sockpuppeteer

Fourdee (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log · rfcu)

Suspected sockpuppets

MoritzB (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log · rfcu)


Report submission by

Muntuwandi 03:38, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Evidence
  • From 30th June 2007 to 2nd July 2007 User:Fourdee made a number of contributions to the talk page of the article Race and intelligence. During this period a few controversial statements were made for example:

What policies would you suggest a government adopt? Ship them back to africa? Exterminate them? diff However after the 2nd of July his edits to the talk page abruptly end. A day later on the 3rd of July 2007 a new user is created called User:MoritzB. This is large a single purpose account editing mostly the race and intelligence article. In the first few weeks almost entirely. The tone is similar to Fourdee in that it is promoting xenophobic topics. For example diff

While a single purpose account in itself is not a violation, using one for sockpuppetry is. I therefore suspect the Fourdee is using a sockpuppet to circumvent the 3RR rule. These edits were made within a 24 hr period from 21:33, 1 August 2007 to 16:43, 2 August 2007.

That is at least 5 reversions in 24 hours. Then what happens next is that Fourdee reports Muntuwandi for violating the 3RR rule Muntuwandi 3RR report. Consequently Muntuwandi is blocked for 24 hours by administrator User:Seraphimblade. If it turns out that MoritzB is a sockpuppet of Fourdee, then this is an important issue. This would mean the user is fully conscious that he is breaking the rules. Causing edit wars by using sockpuppets and then convincing administrators to get other users blocked.


Comments

There's some circumstantial evidence here. I'd like to send this to checkuser for their input: see Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Fourdee. MastCell Talk 00:18, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Conclusions

Checkuser finds them unrelated. The accounts do bear further watching for tag-teaming, but without clearer circumstantial evidence, and with a negative checkuser, no action is indicated at this point. MastCell Talk 17:15, 5 August 2007 (UTC)