Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/GoRight

GoRight

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Populated account categories: suspected

For archived investigations, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/GoRight/Archive.

13 June 2010

Suspected sockpuppets

• VLB Pocketspup (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• STOATblog (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Cursing Gnome (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• SafelyAnonymous (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

Evidence submitted by Stephan Schulz

All three users listed as socks simulate or repeat edits and edit comments made by User: William M. Connolley (if in different contexts). The first two one also contain references to this user in the user name (VLB->WMC, Stoat is WMC's off-wiki blog). The edits are certainly made by a user with significant Wikipedia-experience. User:GoRight is currently banned and blocked. However, he comments off-wiki about User:VLB Pocketspup here. I find the story presented there implausible - it's much more likely that he actually created the sock, or at least has independent knowledge about it. Please check any connections between the three listed accounts. I suspect User: GoRight is stale - if not, please consider my hypothesis. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 23:22, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Added User:SafelyAnonymous, who now tries to pass off the fake socks as real socks via Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/William M. Connolley. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 00:56, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties

See Defending yourself against claims.

Comments by other users

I'm going to have to agree with Stephan. These socks, making edits that are seemingly identical to William Connolley, must be the work of GoRight! The crypto-sock sock theory! Shall I safely assume that all socks in this area are skeptics now? Oh wait Ratel doesn't fit into that pattern....unless he is was a victim of a crypto-sock attack as well. We should look into this. Luckily this new bogeyman behavior has conveniently come to light just in time to show Arbcom what you have to deal with. Congratulations on once again discovering socks with lightning speed Stephan. TheGoodLocust (talk) 03:30, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Checkuser request – code letter: E  + B (Community ban/sanction evasion and ongoing serious pattern vandalism)

Current status – Awaiting initial clerk review.    Requested by Stephan Schulz (talk) 23:20, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

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