Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Tmpafford

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User:Tmpafford[edit]

Suspected sock puppeteer

Tmpafford (talk⁺ · contribs · deleted contribs · tag · block user · block log · CheckUser)

Suspected sock puppets

65.66.204.17 (talk⁺ · contribs · deleted contribs · tag · block user · block log · CheckUser)
165.95.93.254 (talk⁺ · contribs · deleted contribs · tag · block user · block log · CheckUser)
165.95.95.100 (talk⁺ · contribs · deleted contribs · tag · block user · block log · CheckUser)

Report submission by

SlamDiego_←T 18:10, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

Comments

At Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Tmpafford it is confirmed that Tmpafford is editing from 65.66.204.17. No confirmation or explicit lack of confirmation was reported for the other two IP numbers. —SlamDiego_←T 18:10, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
IP number 65.66.204.17 is persistently assigned to a domain owned by Tmpafford. (Please see the evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Tmpafford about this. (I hesitate to present it repeatedly or bluntly for reasons that should be clear on review.) —SlamDiego_←T 18:10, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
As Tmpafford and as 65.66.204.17, he has repeatedly been warned to halt. —SlamDiego_←T 18:10, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I strongly urge
1. that Tmpafford be blocked until he agrees to refrain both from vandalism and from any further use of sockpuppets (since he has used them abusively).
2. that the IP 65.66.204.17 be subject to a block of a year or more (to be lifted within that period if it is reassigned to a domain not seen to be owned by the same individual).

—SlamDiego_←T 18:10, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Corruption of this filing by Tmpafford:
1. edit of “Conclusion” section, including a personal attack against filer

CorrectedTmpafford (talk) 21:59, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

1. deletes “----” despite plain instructions not to do so

Error on my part. First time dealing with someone like you.Tmpafford (talk) 21:59, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

—SlamDiego_←T 18:11, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As to his assertion that he forgot to sign-in prior to the anonymous edits, the pattern shows the opposite, which is to say that he made all of the vandalistic edits anonymously until one point at which he forgot to sign out before making one. —SlamDiego_←T 18:17, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

At times I forgot to log in prior to making changes. This was not meant in any way to hide my identity.Tmpafford (talk)
I strongly urge
1. that SlamDiego get a life.Tmpafford (talk)
I confirmed nothing but my own naïveté in dealing with a hostile, vendictive, hateful, biased editorTmpafford (talk) 21:53, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Note further addition to personal attack. —SlamDiego_←T 22:02, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

After investigating this report, it appears highly likely that 65.66.204.17 is an IP sockpuppet of Tmpafford. The second and third IPs also appear to have been used by this editor, however as their last edits were 93 and 91 days ago respectively, no action is necessary for them. Otherwise I am implementing the following:

IP blocked for three months
Semi-protected the article for ten days
User(s) blocked. for 48 hours (in addition to his current block for edit warring)

Hopefully this will resolve the issue. Otherwise the primary IP may need to be hard blocked and/or the article protected for an extended timeperiod. --Kralizec! (talk) 23:03, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]