Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Skoojal

Skoojal

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Report date October 12 2009, 16:26 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

• Devil Goddess (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Born Gay (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

Evidence submitted by Hyper3

A brief look at the history of Conversion therapy shows another editor with the name Skoojal, (who appears again briefly as Devil Goddess) with a very similar tone to Born Gay; some identical language and even disputes with the same people. Both these accounts are blocked for disruptive editing. Born Gay appears suddenly without any apparent learning curve into editing this article, after Devil Goddess was caught because the pattern of editing was very like Skoojal. Born Gay appears in January 2009, with a name that is designed to fit with the conversion therapy article. Devil Goddess gets discovered as a sock of Skoojal in late November 2008. There is some overlap after Devil Goddess gets discovered. Sigh. I need to say that I have been in a mediation dispute with him. I have also tried to get arbitration, but it was declined. Sorry if this is making a needless accusation, as it will probably look bad to be raising this at this point. Here are some diffs that are very similar to his current approach. See this and this and this. Hyper3 (talk) 08:59, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Reviewing WP:SIGNS I think the following sections apply: uncivil editing, precocious edit histories, editing identical articles, similar writing and editing styles. Also single purpose editing may be reflected in the name Born Gay, which may be directed at the article "conversion therapy" upon which there is much editing. Hyper3 (talk) 16:44, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

Confirmed that I am indeed Skoojal. How clever of Hyper3 to notice that. I won't deny it, because I've got a limited tolerance for bullshit (that's why I'm so uncivil). I figured that if I came back to Wikipedia under a new, more politically correct guise (calling myself "Born Gay", and so forth), no one would be smart enough to realize who I was. For the record, I do not now, and nor have I ever, believed that I was "born gay" - my actual views on that topic are about the exact opposite of what my user name would suggest. BG talk 20:19, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Comments by other users

The accounts share a strong interest in Conversion therapy. I noticed that they also edit according to the same approximate schedule.[1][2][3]   Will Beback  talk  19:58, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Conclusions

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