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Sockpuppetry case

You have been accused of sockpuppetry. Please refer to Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Jstanierm for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with notes for the suspect before editing the evidence page. Phoenix of9 06:54, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Edit War

Well, the thing about reverts is that you have to check to make sure a given edit was actually a revert, not a new edit. A really handy tool for this is Popups, which you can enable through the Gadgets section of your Preferences. Go to the article history page and hold your mouse over the "Prev" link of the revisions. If Person A adds something, and Person B removes it, that's a clear revert. Sometimes you'll see Person A add something, a Bot changes something else, and Person B removes what Person A did... this won't appear in the individual diff, so you need the big picture for something like that.

Of course, some edits show Person A adding something and Person B removing something else, which isn't necessarily a revert. --King Öomie 02:45, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for filing the 3RR report. The case turned out to be very confusing, since at least two and perhaps three of the recent editors have a conflict of interest. There are also some WP:Biographies of living persons problems. The person, NatGertler, against whom you filed the complaint was the one who understood Misplaced Pages policy best. It turns out that Kiviat is the one who should cause us the most concern now, and I hope he will get the message and follow our policies. EdJohnston (talk) 06:43, 12 February 2010 (UTC)