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GooseCreek[edit]

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Filed: 16:12, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

We appear to have a swarm of sockpuppets or meat puppets disrupting Talk:Waterboarding#Shibumi2 second attempt at new article lead. There is an ongoing RfC at Talk:Waterboarding/Definition about the question of whether Waterboarding is torture or not. This is a high importance, high visibility political topic where there is a strong incentive for lobbying via Wikipedia.

The above editors are all either SPAs, or other accounts with low edit counts that have copied the identical formatting for their votes: ’’’Support.’’’ Please also check if any of the above match any banned users. Thank you. Jehochman Talk 16:12, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

information Note: - as IP editors have been directly involved in votestacking and disruption/personal attacks here, I'm including them per policy.
 Confirmed - PennState21 (talk · contribs) = Harry Lives! (talk · contribs) = Shibumi2 (talk · contribs) = 68.29.174.61 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
Red X Unrelated - the other IP addresses, and there are no underlying accounts
Red X Unrelated - Neutral Good (talk · contribs) - Alison ❤ 19:21, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question - Why has User:PennState21 not been blocked for sockpuppetry? Also, Shibumi2 cannot be a sockpuppet of PennState21; it must be the other way around, since Shibumi2 was created in early 2007 and PennState21 in late 2007. Badagnani (talk) 19:39, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Because I am on it ;). -- lucasbfr ho ho ho 19:40, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
 Clerk note: tagged and blocked the puppets. Hardblocked the IP and the main account for 2 weeks, considering the main is here since January. -- lucasbfr ho ho ho 19:40, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for butting in :) henrik•talk 19:43, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You guys/gals are good! Badagnani (talk) 19:46, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It wasn't clear from earlier, but GooseCreek (talk · contribs) is Red X Unrelated to any of the others - Alison ❤ 19:54, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that account is unrelated and this is the second checkuser request in as many weeks that s/he has survived - Alison ❤ 19:54, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note: 209.221.240.193

User talk:209.221.240.193 has an established and demonstrated history of sockpuppetry related to articles along these political tones, which has lead to one arbitration hearing related to this, for User:DeanHinnen and User:BryanFromPalatine. Details at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Free Republic. These editors blocked here also (such as Shibumi2, the oldest) had also participated on the Free Republic article in the same time frame as banned user BryanFromPalatine/DeanHinnen, when he was socking. Would it be possible to check for accounts on 209.221.240.193 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) participating with multiple accounts on this waterboarding discussion? The 209.221.240.193 has also played a role in the tainted discussions there. Lawrence Cohen 19:40, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

 Clerk note: moving conversation on the merits of the block and its length to the talk page. Please keep it there... -- lucasbfr ho ho ho 23:34, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]


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