Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Fovean Author

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User:Fovean Author

Suspected sockpuppeteer

Fovean Author (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

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

Report submission by

Shem^(talk) 02:17, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Evidence

1. Back in March, User:Fovean Author and the IP address User:64.45.236.60 both voted delete on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A More Perfect Union. Fovean Author's first vote was worded innocuously [1], while the subsequent IP vote was extremely uncivil [2] ("What, every time he farts in an elevator, you want to make a Wikipedia entry?"). Fovean Author's IP vote drew immediate suspicion, but there was no evidence to act upon.
2. Today, in a discussion at Talk:Barack Obama, the IP address returned to vote in a content poll; two minutes later User:Fovean Author signed in to claim the vote as his.
3. Between March 19th and March 22nd 2008, User:Fovean Author edited A More Perfect Union, an Obama-related article, with both his account and his IP address. During this time period, he edit-warred on his IP address over controversial insertions with administrator User:Bigtimepeace [3] [4], who's tried to mediate Obama-related disputes more recently. While using his IP to insert negative material, he used his account to delete positive material.

Comments

User:Fovean Author's been a fundamentally disruptive partisan editor, leveling the worst personal (userpage vandalism with personal attacks) attacks ("your messiah Obama") of the recent flare-ups at Barack Obama. He's now inadvertently outed his past sockpuppetry, and should be banned for disruption, personal attacks, incivility, and all-around tendentious editing. Shem^(talk) 02:17, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Conclusions

• User blocked for 6 months for abuse of editing privileges via sockpuppetry, disruption, personal attacks, incivility, and tendentious editing. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 03:21, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
  • To clarify, the IP address is blocked for 6 months. Yechiel (Shalom) 22:22, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

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