Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Fossett&Elvis

Fossett&Elvis

• Fossett&Elvis (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Oprahwasontv (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Seattlehawk94 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

• Code letter: F

• Supporting evidence: These 3 users are accused of being the same person. However, none of their edits are to the same article so there is no violation of the multiple accounts rule. Oprahwasontv says she was editing from Maryland on 12.176.20.xxx according to a checkuser. Seattlehawk94 is a male TV reporter from Washington state. Based on public information, it looks like these are 3 separate people. Therefore, they cannot be socks of each other. I understand that checkusers have an inherent interest to say that they are socks because they have already been blocked as socks of each other, but honesty is the best policy to confirm what I have uncovered. Also, we should realize that these are human beings we are dealing with, not scraps of garbage that are blocked and thrown away. The reason for this RFCU is to check and correct conflicting checkuser information since they can't all be the sock of the same person.

The reason I am writing this is because I have seen another misidentification of socks. XXXX was checkuser proven to be in Atlanta while his sock XXXX was checkuser proven to be in Chicago. Some may say that there is some theoretical way to tap into far away computers but other XXXX socks are all in Chicago so they obviously are not capable of hijacking computers from other cities or they would have done so. (Names can be provided but are not shown so as not to confuse the issue).SherlockHol (talk) 03:42, 22 November 2008 (UTC)