Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Fangusu

The following discussion is an archived debate of the case of suspected sockpuppetry. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page. All edits should go to the talk page of this case. If you are seeing this page as a result of an attempt to open a new case of sockpuppetry of the same user, read this for detailed instructions.

User:Fangusu[edit]

Suspected sockpuppeteer

Fangusu (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

59.183.8.122 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
59.183.13.168 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) (questionable if this counts as sockpuppetry: comments section)

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--Icarus ^(Hi!) 23:45, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

The sockpuppeteer is currently blocked (for the second time, due to continued vandalism following the first block), but attempting to evade the block by editing anonymously. I initially went to report it at WP:AIV, but I saw that another sockpuppeting allegation had been reported there and an admin had directed the reporter to post it here, so I'm coming here instead (though I'll make a report at WP:AIV as well if the anonymous IP editing does not stop).

On 4 June, the anonymous editor removed a prod from Captain Underpants and the Brainy Bamboozle of Black Cheetah Man‎ diff, an article that Fangusu had initially created [1]. The history of this article is a bit convoluted, making this far from conclusive evidence, but the IP's next two edits clearly establish that it is the same user.

The IP's next edit was to Doomguy diff, an article commonly edited by Fangusu. Compare that edit to this one by Fangusu: [2]

The final edit was to Bite diff, a frequent target of Fangusu's vandalism. Compare the IP's edit to these edits by Fangusu, in which Fangusu also repeatedly removes the reference to human biting, and finally attempts to add the same copyvio image from the Doom game as the IP address had: [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10].

From these patterns, I believe it is clear that this anonymous IP is in fact Fangusu attempting to evade the block.

Update: Based on Fangusu's reply on her talk page, however, duplicated below in "Comments", it sounds like she might not have known that to edit from an anonymous IP while blocked is considered sockpuppetry, and is not allowed. I have informed her of this on her talk page now. Due to the apparent misunderstanding, I believe that any consequences for sockpuppetry should be deffered, pending future sockpuppetry. --Icarus ^(Hi!) 03:14, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

How did you know it was me all along?--User:Fangusu^{(User_talk:Fangusu)} 8:25,5 June 2008 (UTC)

Note: due to the block, I informed Fangusu that any replies to this case that she posted on her own talk page would be copied here, since as long as she was blocked she would not be able to edit this page (as far as I know, at least). This is the reply left [11][12]: I was not doing sockpuppetry, honestly.--User:Fangusu^{(User_talk:Fangusu)} 8:12,5 June 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.183.22.242 (talk)

I added another IP to the list based on a comment that User:Icarus3 left on User talk:Fangusu. The additional IP account has been given a 24-hour block. None of the three accounts has added any improper images since June 7, so possibly this editor has now got the message. EdJohnston (talk) 04:31, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Because Fangusu was not blocked at the time of the new IP's edits, it is my understanding that it does not count as sockpuppetry since there is no rule against simply not signing in. Only against doing so to circumvent a block. Sorry if that wasn't clear in the warning I left on the IP's talk page. It was not my intent to warn the IP for sockpuppetry, simply for the same sort of vandalism that Fangusu has a history of in general. --Icarus ^(Hi!) 05:12, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that this is (at most) block evasion. But we hope that the problem has now stopped. EdJohnston (talk) 05:21, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

Thanks to Icarus and EdJohnston, this case has been dealt with properly. Fangusu has been warned. I will leave a follow-up message to her. Yechiel (Shalom) 20:19, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]