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Verbal

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For archived investigations, see Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Verbal/Archive.


Report date July 10 2009, 11:52 (UTC)
Suspected sockpuppets
Evidence submitted by Frei Hans

The user Verbal has been taking part in disruptive action similar to Daedalus. The user began edit warring on an article that he wanted deleted (Telepathy and war). That article, and its diffs showing edit warring, has since been deleted. The user Verbal continued to provoke edit warring on the user's user page afterwards. Verbal posts aggressive messages and then complains when others ask him to back off or when revisions are suggested by his target . User Daedalus makes similar edits on the same user page, in connection with Jack Merridew .

User Jack Merridew has been found before to be operating sock puppets disruptively . It appears he has continued to do so, to cause disruption on a user page . Jack Merridew has also stated that he is a sock puppet.

The account Free Hans (with two "e's") was found to be a sock created to mimic the account Frei Hans (with an "i") at about the same time that some of the above users (Verbal and Papa November) tried to stop a check user of their accounts. Shortly before the account Free Hans was created a threatening message was posted on my user page by the user SarekOfVulcan. The message simply read "Hey I warned you. On your head be it" , and was posted after I lodged my first sock investigation.

The user Elen of the Roads has stated, on the same user page the other users were frequenting that she expects "her own sock puppet report within the hour" .

The user User:Pablomismo has shown similar action to users Verbal and Daedalus969 .

The user A Man In Black was recently found to be taking part in disrupting Misplaced Pages, including operating sock puppets, and was involved as an admin in deleting an article that the user Verbal wanted to delete. .

Many of these users show a similar style of Wiki mark-up and template styling in their signatures and use of style to comment in "discussion", manually inserting edit conflict tags and posting warning notices and banners (traits particularly shared by Verbal and Daedalus). See discussion style on the user page linked at the end of this sentence .

Note proliferation of barnstars etc on user accounts of Verbal, Abce2, SheffieldSteel and Gwen Gale .

As in the case of A Man In Black, user Sheffield Steel seems to have commandeered administrative status in order to push through biased decisions that favour certain sectors of an apparent Wikipedian "community".

These users, and others connected to them, seem to be focussed on disrupting the work of genuine Wikipedians. Frei Hans (talk) 11:52, 10 July 2009 (UTC)


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CheckUser requests

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Checkuser request – code letter: B  + C (Ongoing serious pattern vandalism and vote stacking affecting outcome)
Current status – Awaiting initial clerk review.    Requested by Frei Hans (talk) 11:52, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Please note that while I have selected codes B and C, that the accounts involved also seem to be operating socks for reasons D and E.


Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


Conclusions


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