Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/SalvNaut

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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:SalvNaut

Suspected sockpuppeteer

SalvNaut (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

MarkCentury (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

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— Arthur Rubin | (talk) 00:09, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Evidence

Immediately after User:MarkCentury was blocked for WP:3RR in Steven E. Jones, User:SalvNaut made the same edit.

Comments

The evidence is very strong that these are sock puppets. Aside from the revert warring - the alleged evasion of 3RR occurred less than an hour after MarkCentury was blocked - an examination of SalvNaut's contribs shows a concentrated interest in 9/11 conspiracy theories. It is not beyond the scruples of some POV editors to use sock puppets to win an argument, and I suspect that's what happened here. Shalom Hello 03:50, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Conclusions
  • MarkCentury fits the definition of a single-purpose account--his contributions all relate in some way to Steven E. Jones, and he jumped right into a controversy in his very first day of editing. The similarity between his edits and SalvNaut's, especially the reverts given above, strongly suggest that both accounts are operated by the same person. Since MarkCentury is the newer account, I'm indef blocking MarkCentury, and giving SalvNaut a 48-hour block. --Akhilleus (talk) 15:08, 22 August 2007 (UTC)