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The Artist AKA Mr Anonymous

18 September 2010
Suspected sockpuppets



Evidence submitted by Alpha Quadrant

[1] [2] [3] Basically all edits made by these three accounts at Talk:Restoring Honor rally. I believe it is one person trying to make it look like he has a lot of people supporting him in the dispute at Talk:Restoring Honor rally. I volunteered at Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2010-09-09/Restoring Honor rally to help mediate between the group of five editors,(obviously different people based on their other edits) and the "three" editors. Upon looking at the "three" user's edit history I noticed that the IPs have only edited the page the dispute is on and to comment on its talk page. They also have agreed with The Artist AKA Mr Anonymous whenever they edited. I was wondering if checkuser could confirm or deny whether or not these IPs belong to him. Alpha Quadrant (talk) 04:02, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by accused parties   

See Defending yourself against claims. I'm am not IP209. I have logged under IP's, mainly do to the hassle of having given myself such a long name. I have not used an IP, I believe after another editor suggested sock puppetry. Recent comments by IP209, also strongly suggest he/she is another editor.The Artist AKA Mr Anonymous (talk) 18:17, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by other users
Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
  •  Declined. For privacy reasons, we will not connect IP addresses to accounts with checkuser. This will need to be based on publicly available information and behavioral evidence. However, unless one or more of these is a proxy, I'd say it's very unlikely; the 82.x resolves to Munich, Germany, and the other to Folsom, California. Hersfold (t/a/c) 04:34, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
One IP is blocked, the other has not edited since the 7th. I don't see much left to do here. TNXMan 14:15, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]