Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Big.P (2nd)

User:Big.P

Suspected sockpuppeteer

Big.P (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

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

Report submission by

-SpuriousQ (talk) 09:46, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Evidence

• Filabusta (talk · contribs) is an account created on 13 July 2006 that stopped editing on October 11 2006. On 5 June 2007, the account returned to register a !vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kiwi Camara (2nd nomination), an AfD nominated by Big.P.
• Big.P (talk · contribs) has a history of abusively using sockpuppets. Big.P started the first AfD of this article, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kiwi Alejandro Camara, and he registered at least one !vote using an IP address, resulting in the first Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Big.p case. It was determined an "open and shut case", and the IP's comments were struck from the AfD.
• Following the first AfD, Big.P created an account he used to impersonate another user whom he had disagreed with, using the account for vandalism. The ruse worked, and the user was initially blocked. Two weeks later, Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Zigzogger confirmed that Big.P had framed the user. Big.P was subsequently blocked for 1 month.
• Filabusta's account was created 3 days after Big.P's 1 month block expired. Big.P did not edit during the time Filabusta was active. Big.P returned on October 16 2006, 5 days after Filabusta ceased editing. His first action was to remove the block template from his talk page.
• Filabusta's edit history shows similar interests as Big.P:
  • Nearly all of Filabusta's edits have been to San Francisco Bay Area hip-hop articles, such as E-40, The Federation (band), and Tell Me When to Go. Big.P has extensively edited on this topic, in articles such as E-40, West Coast hip hop, and Hyphy.
  • Filabusta made one edit to Intel Core 2 [1]. Big.P's contributions indicate an interest in CPU articles, such as Intel Core 2, Turion X2, etc.
• Big.P's account is not his first. This account's first edit (outside his own userspace) was a conciliatory message to another user, explaining that "I don't plan to do anything stupid anymore" [2] and a withdrawal of several frivolous votes from an RfA [3]. His userpage still bears barnstars "given" by the users who cast those votes. Consequently, it's unclear how deep this sockpuppetry runs, but as that was nearly two years ago it may not be necessary to investigate this further.

Comments

Filabusta is my brother, and we edit Wikipedia occasionally on the same internet connection. There's no sockpuppetry here. This is all a simple misunderstanding, blown out of proportion by a Wikipedian who has different interests than my brother and I regarding an article listed for deletion. The past ought to remain in the past; digging it up and exploiting it does not reveal new truth, but rather, fuel controversy. -- ßίζ•קּ‼ (talk | contribs) 06:57, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Conclusions

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