Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Verbal

Verbal

Verbal (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

For archived investigations, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Verbal/Archive.

Report date December 15 2009, 23:51 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

• Windhover75 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

Evidence submitted by A Nobody

User:Windhover75 is a newly registered account acting in the same unconstructive manner as User:Verbal, specifically the anti-Article Rescue Squadron commentary and use of WP:JNN style of non-arguments:

• Compare Windhover75's "whatever the ARS block vote thinks" with User:Verbal's "the ARS block vote". It is clearly the same person or is an impersonation.
• Verbal has a history of denigrating Dream Focus as seen in this edit ("It's very disappointing that your sole aim seems to be trivialising and damaging the project"); similar anti-Dream Focus edits from Verbal include [1], [2] and [3]. Now, the Windhover75 account's very first edit was to similarly antagonize ARS member User:Dream Focus at ANI in a manner that suggest familiarity with Dream Focus: "Well let's face it that's your speciality" and all subsequent edits have been to AfDs. What is most telling is that these AfDs (3/4) tend to be ones AFTER Dream Focus has commented in them: [4], [5], and [6].

If it is the same person, as seems obvious per WP:DUCK, then this second account is being used to antagonize other editors (in the case of Dream Focus) or groups of editors (in the case of the ARS) in violation of WP:AGF, WP:CIVIL, and WP:HOUND. Thus, if it is indeed the same editor, please block and strike the sock's comments from the above cited afds. Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 23:51, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties   

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CheckUser requests

Checkuser request – code letter: F (Other reason )

Current status – Completed: Reviewed by a Checkuser, results and comments are below.    Requested by A Nobody^{My talk} 23:51, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

•  Clerk endorsed Account is very much likely a sockpuppet. The phrase "ARS block" is obscure enough for me not to have heard it before, so that piece of behavioral evidence is fairly strong. Endorsing a checkuser to check both Verbal and Dalejenkins (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki). NW (Talk) 00:36, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Verbal is  Unrelated. Windhover75 (talk · contribs) is  Likely Dalejenkins (talk · contribs). Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 01:47, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions

•  Administrator note Behavioral evidence looks convincing. Blocked and tagged. NW (Talk) 01:49, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

This case has been marked as closed. It will be archived after its final review by a Clerk or Checkuser.

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