Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mctrain

Mctrain

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Populated account categories: confirmed · suspected

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

Report date July 18 2009, 18:05 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

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

Evidence submitted by Deor

These two accounts, created three minutes apart on 1 July 2009, have been making the sorts of unsourced additions of material related to the Barbaro family that characterize the Mctrain family of sockpuppets. To anyone familiar with the long history of the Barbaro-related socking, edits such as this and this look mighty familar. Deor (talk) 18:14, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

• I forgot to mention that Harper College, the apparent source of one of the account names, is in suburban Chicago, a location which has been linked to other members of the sock group. Deor (talk) 18:14, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

• Materials were sourced by [[1]] validly. Pagetools is my account, and Harpercollege was an assisting account. Harpercollege is of no relation to a school of that name, it is an acronim of "Harold (my name) for (per) college". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pagetools (talk • contribs) 18:22, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

• I have been communicating a bit with Deor on this concern. It appears that some valid information has been removed on suspicion of "sockpuppetry", but if valid and sourced infomation is removed just on account of a technicality, i.e. sockpuppetry, that doesn't mean that the sourced information that was removed was not valid in the first place, no?Pagetools (talk) 19:11, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

• I have just did a little reserach on line, and I have found out that user DEOR is one of the problematic administrators who has been harassing legimate users. I found this link that demonstrates that several adminstrators have some issue against Barbaro-family subject matter, and they have been building false cases against users under a "Barneca" watch page. Here is the link: [[2]]. From my own experience, I noticed that Deor only notified me after I did some general organizing to the Barbaro-family page.

• I do not appreciate being played with- nor do I respect individuals who have agendas against legitamte topics and information. I will notify Wikipedia of these problematic administrators if this type of behavior continues. thank youPagetools (talk) 22:38, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

comments by other users

CheckUser requests

Checkuser request – code letter: E (Community ban/sanction evasion )

Current status – Awaiting initial clerk review.    Requested by Deor (talk) 18:05, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Conclusions

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