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| ***I agree, I've gone ahead and added a suspected sockpuppet template to the IP's userpage. It doesn't appear to be a business or education based IP. ] <sub>(] / ])</sub> 19:35, 4 August 2008 (UTC) | ***I agree, I've gone ahead and added a suspected sockpuppet template to the IP's userpage. It doesn't appear to be a business or education based IP. ] <sub>(] / ])</sub> 19:35, 4 August 2008 (UTC) | ||
| **** And the 2 registered accounts have very similar userpages. I'll wait until toolserver is back up to check some stuff on these accounts. ]] 19:58, 4 August 2008 (UTC) | **** And the 2 registered accounts have very similar userpages. I'll wait until toolserver is back up to check some stuff on these accounts. ]] 19:58, 4 August 2008 (UTC) | ||
| *Oh, you people accuse every user who you don't want to become an admin of sock puppetry. That makes no sense. I do not have a sockpuppet account. Read the userpages; There are different userboxes. Titaniumviper is 21 and I am 16. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee and I live nowhere near Memphis. ] (]) 22:36, 4 August 2008 (UTC) | |||
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User:Footballfan190
- Suspected sockpuppeteer
Footballfan190 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
- Suspected sockpuppets
Titaniumviper (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
216.93.231.149 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
- Report submission by
Darkspots (talk) 07:47, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
- Evidence
Titaniumviper (talk · contribs) was created three minutes after Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Footballfan190 4 was closed NOTNOW. The two userpages bear a remarkable similarity to each other. Titaniumviper banged out a few edits in quick sucession that day to several articles, at least one edited earlier the same day the day before by Footballfan190 (talk · contribs), African Bush Elephant. No further contributions until today, August 4, 2008 when Titaniumviper supports Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Footballfan190 5, exactly three minutes after its transclusion. There is no reason for a new user to watchlist WP:RFA.
- Comments
- I observed the incident as it unfolded at Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Footballfan190 5 and expressed similar misgivings about the support vote of User:Titaniumviper. In my opinion, the evidence points to sockpuppetry with the intent to vote stack. Recommend checkuser. Wisdom89 (T / ) 08:32, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
- Also recommend that User:Titaniumviper be blocked anyway due to persistent vandalism. Wisdom89 (T / ) 08:36, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
- I didn't realize Titaniumviper was anything more than a throwaway account when I filed the report, because I was just interested in the attempt to show false support at the RfA. But this is really unacceptable, and I think that removing Footballfan190's rollback rights is in order. Darkspots (talk) 08:39, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
- I recommend checkuser. I find it incredible such a person would go for a fifth RfA; surely they should know someone willing to violate the rules so visibly would be inappropriate for adminship. Ironholds 10:29, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
- CheckUser is not needed. it's so obvious my 4 yr old cousin could tell. Shapiros10 My work 12:36, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
- That may be so, Shapiros, but checkuser will help confirm it. not using checkuser means we cannot prove that the two accounts are sock-related, it only means we can suspect it. Ironholds 13:21, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
- I think CheckUser is needed in this. Other than the obvious rfa buisness the past edits on the 23rd of july look very different although they do seem to carry on from each other. Suggesting CheckUser '·Add§hore· /Cont 13:17, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
- I've added another user, 216.93.231.149 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), based on vandalism on Dennis Kucinich almost identical to the edit by Titaniumviper; compare the IP's edits on 29 June, 21 July and 1 August with those by Footballfan190. --Snigbrook 19:17, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
- I agree, I've gone ahead and added a suspected sockpuppet template to the IP's userpage. It doesn't appear to be a business or education based IP. Wisdom89 (T / ) 19:35, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
- And the 2 registered accounts have very similar userpages. I'll wait until toolserver is back up to check some stuff on these accounts. OhanaUnited 19:58, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
- I agree, I've gone ahead and added a suspected sockpuppet template to the IP's userpage. It doesn't appear to be a business or education based IP. Wisdom89 (T / ) 19:35, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
- I've added another user, 216.93.231.149 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), based on vandalism on Dennis Kucinich almost identical to the edit by Titaniumviper; compare the IP's edits on 29 June, 21 July and 1 August with those by Footballfan190. --Snigbrook 19:17, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
- Oh, you people accuse every user who you don't want to become an admin of sock puppetry. That makes no sense. I do not have a sockpuppet account. Read the userpages; There are different userboxes. Titaniumviper is 21 and I am 16. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee and I live nowhere near Memphis. Footballfan190 (talk) 22:36, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
- Conclusions