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But what I want to know is this: where were all these self-righteous idiots when John Seigenthaler was getting slandered with ZERO newspaper articles? "A new policy, 'biographies of living persons', was created on December 17, 2005; editorial restrictions, including reference requirements, were introduced." With Fotouhi, there are FOUR references with more in the way in the next few months. You see, 4 > 0. ] (]) 13:06, 7 April 2014 (UTC) But what I want to know is this: where were all these self-righteous idiots when John Seigenthaler was getting slandered with ZERO newspaper articles? "A new policy, 'biographies of living persons', was created on December 17, 2005; editorial restrictions, including reference requirements, were introduced." With Fotouhi, there are FOUR references with more in the way in the next few months. You see, 4 > 0. ] (]) 13:06, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

::Don't forget that some admins can change edit timestamps. It's not easy, but it can be done. This won't present any problem with Truth To The Forefront, but they will have to adjust some of Corruption Watchpitbull's edit timestamps. (But they might also decide that one sockpuppet is just as bad as two and it's not worth the trouble). So that's why I won't be supporting my argument with diffs, they can change the timestamp and say it proves nothing at all. Whatever. ] (]) 19:53, 7 April 2014 (UTC)


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Detroit Joseph

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05 April 2014

– A user has requested CheckUser. An SPI clerk will shortly look at the case and endorse or decline the request.

Suspected sockpuppets

Detroit Joseph repeatedly attempted to insert negative material in Farshad Fotouhi, a BLP. His edits were rejected by consensus and BLP policy. He persisted in his efforts and was topic-banned by the community for his trouble.

So shortly after the topic ban is imposed, two brand-new accounts show up, each making a few legitimate edits before making a beeline to reinsert the exact same information. The account names are also obviously tendentious.

NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 17:41, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Comments by other users

Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.User:Corruption Watchpitbull - only edit of substance was to Farshad Fotouhi, https://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/Corruption_Watchpitbull all other minor edits were simply to attain auto confirmed status so as to be able to make the single edit to Farshad Fotouhi life story - a total copy of the content the topic banned user https://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Detroit_Joseph#Topic_ban - User:Detroit Joseph was previously adding Mosfetfaser (talk) 18:38, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

You must be feeling real proud of yourself right now. You caught the evil sockpuppeteer! He's worse than Hitler! But why stop at this? Why don't you call The Detroit News and tell them to fire Lauren Abdel-Razzaq, an obvious sockpuppet of Tom Henderson from Crain's Detroit Business? There are more newspaper articles in the pipeline (drop time will depend on how much FOIA games WSU plays) and they will also be written by Tom Henderson sockpuppets. Truth to the Forefront (talk) 02:42, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Wow, what a long backlog! Misplaced Pages does not have enough sockpuppet-hunters to deal with all the editors angry at their inability to revert published mainstream newspapers. It sure is going to take a long time to come to the predetermined conclusion.

But what I want to know is this: where were all these self-righteous idiots when John Seigenthaler was getting slandered with ZERO newspaper articles? "A new policy, 'biographies of living persons', was created on December 17, 2005; editorial restrictions, including reference requirements, were introduced." With Fotouhi, there are FOUR references with more in the way in the next few months. You see, 4 > 0. Truth to the Forefront (talk) 13:06, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Don't forget that some admins can change edit timestamps. It's not easy, but it can be done. This won't present any problem with Truth To The Forefront, but they will have to adjust some of Corruption Watchpitbull's edit timestamps. (But they might also decide that one sockpuppet is just as bad as two and it's not worth the trouble). So that's why I won't be supporting my argument with diffs, they can change the timestamp and say it proves nothing at all. Whatever. Detroit Joseph (talk) 19:53, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
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