Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Rreagan007

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User:Rreagan007

Suspected sockpuppeteer

Rreagan007 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

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

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Newshounddog (talk) 02:24, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Evidence

Some good contributions, but "Good hand, bad hand" accounts (see respective talk pages) for warnings. Common edits include, but are not limited to, North Raleigh Christian Academy, Raleigh Christian Academy, Cary Academy, North Carolina Tar Heels, (year) ACC Men's Basketball Tournament pages, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rameses, Atlantic Coast Conference, Tyler Hansbrough, Silent Sam. Also edits to university articles adding "(Latin)" or English translations to the motto field of infoboxes. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill featured article page yesterday is interesting also. Newshounddog (talk) 02:24, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Comments

Conclusions

It is very obvious that these are the same user. I could go back further in time than this past week, but it is not necessary. The contribution logs for June 12, 2008 complete each other perfectly.

Rreagan007

• 15:48, 12 June 2008 (hist) (diff) Rameses‎
• 15:26, 12 June 2008 (hist) (diff) Rameses‎
• 15:13, 12 June 2008 (hist) (diff) Rameses‎
• 15:11, 12 June 2008 (hist) (diff) Rameses‎
• 15:06, 12 June 2008 (hist) (diff) North Carolina Tar Heels‎
• 15:03, 12 June 2008 (hist) (diff) North Carolina Tar Heels‎ (→Men's Basketball)
• 15:02, 12 June 2008 (hist) (diff) North Carolina Tar Heels‎ (→Football)
• 15:02, 12 June 2008 (hist) (diff) North Carolina Tar Heels‎ (→Baseball)
• 14:46, 12 June 2008 (hist) (diff) North Carolina Tar Heels‎ (→National championships)
• 14:41, 12 June 2008 (hist) (diff) North Carolina Tar Heels‎ (→National championships)
• 14:32, 12 June 2008 (hist) (diff) North Carolina Tar Heels‎ (→External links)

Anonymous user

• 15:46, 12 June 2008 (hist) (diff) m Rameses‎ (→Origin)
• 15:45, 12 June 2008 (hist) (diff) m Rameses‎ (→Origin)
• 14:59, 12 June 2008 (hist) (diff) m University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill‎ (→Traditions)
• 14:34, 12 June 2008 (hist) (diff) m North Carolina Tar Heels‎ (→Rivalries)

These two user accounts edit North Carolina Tar Heels within two minutes of each other (14:32 and 14:34), then an hour later they again edit Rameses, an unrelated article, within two minutes of each other (15:46 and 15:48).

Now of course it is permitted to edit without logging in, then login and logout as you please. The question is whether there's any "good hand, bad hand" activity. Both users have clean block logs, but there are some warnings on the anonymous user's talk page, and no warnings on Rreagan07's talk page. I think because of Rreagan's seniority we should go slow on this and await his explanation for the edits that earned him those warnings. If he can explain what happened and apologize if he did anything wrong, and commit to resolve the issues that led to those warnings, then I see no need for a block. However, if he is unresponsive, it might be best to consider soft-blocking the IP so that Rreagan is forced to be accountable for the edits he makes. Again, this is a delicate situation, so I won't suggest any formal response until I hear from the Rreagan, and also from Newshounddog. Yechiel (Shalom) 03:14, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Please see my question at User talk:Newshounddog. Yechiel (Shalom) 03:20, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

I do not deny that I sometimes edit from that IP address instead of logging in, but I do not do that for bad purposes. Usually I either just forget to log in, or I have several different browsers open and I'm logged in on 1 browser and just don't remember to log into the other 1. I have looked at the talk page for the IP address and I do see the negitive stuff you are referring to. But none of the vandalism from this IP address was done by me. I did not even start editing wikipedia articles at all until January of this year, and the vandalism I saw was all from before that. I'm also not familiar with how IP addresses work, but it might be possible that more than 1 person shares this IP address. Again, I have never intentionally vandalised any wikipedia page, and none of the edits from this IP address could have been done by me before January 2008. If you have any questions about this for me please feel free to ask. Rreagan007 (talk) 14:56, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

I am satisfied by this answer. I was not asserting that the entire edit history from that IP address belonged to this user; in all likelihood, as he says, this is not true. I was only saying that the recent edit history, for example from June 12, was from this user. The warnings on the IP address talk page were for minor mistakes, not outright vandalism, so I see no intentional effort to do "good hand, bad hand." I suggest to Rreagan007 to try to stay logged-in when he edits in order to avoid this type of confusion in the future. Otherwise, I am closing this case and saying that Rreagan007 has done nothing wrong according to the sockpuppet policy. Yechiel (Shalom) 21:02, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

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