Peterthepedant (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Arthur Jakubowski (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Enyonyam Ababuo (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
FrFintonStack 23:35, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Throughout much of last year, the above user repetedly added nNPOV additionals to the Spiked (magazine) page, removing sourced and relevant work in the process. The user remarked on the talk page that he had "attempted to clarify and add balance to this article, which is after all an encyclopedia entry and not a channel to wage one-sided attacks on the magazine."
On 12 August 2006, the user added this (disputed on NPOV grounds) comment to the article:
Contributions to the talk pages accused other users, including myself, of turning the magazine into a "soapbox" for George Monbiot and "wage[ing] one-sided attacks on the magazine" for including his criticism and objecting to the user's removal of those criticisms.
After an ongoing debate on the talk page, the user disapppeared. On the second of February, a series of rapid-fire edits appeared from user:Enyonyam Ababuo, returning the magazine to its previous nNPOV state, accompanied by remarks on the talk page that "This page is just a front for anti Spiked agendas so I have tried to redress the balance. I hope my revisions are not censored." Of particular note is that amongst this user's contributions to the article was a paragraph identical to that quoted above (see [2]. The similarity between the conributions of user:Enyonyam Ababuo and user:Peterthepedant led me to suspect that they are the same person.
On 2 February, a series of rapid-fire edits were made to the article by user:Arthur Jakubowski, removing mention of Claire Fox, his explanation on the talk page, and a comment on his user page, suggesting that English was not his first language. ("Ms Fox not Spiked so her comments questionable relevant. AJ").
I reverted both user's edits, user:Enyonyam Ababuo's on the basis on NPOV and user:Arthur Jakubowski's on the basis of factual accuracy, explaning my grounds on the talk page. I also gently raised the Sock Puppetry issue by pointing out the identical contributions, and suggesting that users acquaint themselves with wiki's Sock Puppetry policy. This resulted in user:Arthur Jakubowski reverting to the previous version and launching this attack:
Which again includes many of the motifs of user:Peterthepedant and user:Enyonyam Ababuo's (George Monbiot, Lobbywatch, "soapbox", "address the facts" etc.) contributions. I thus believe that the three accounts are used by the same person, and have been created with the intention of adding undue weight to the opinions of contributions of user:Peterthepedant, and of creating an impression of false consensus.
Additionally, I believe that the user has been editing the page anonymously, especially as Peterthepedant previously responded to a number of issues I raised , even though I referred only to IP numbers.
FrFintonStack 23:19, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Additionally, all three accounts appear to have been created for the purpose of editing the Spiked (magazine) page, and almost all contributions by all the above users are restricted to that page and its talk page. The sole exceptions are an edit made by user:Arthur Jakubowski to Claire Fox, who is a regular contributor to the magazine, and one by user:Enyonyam Ababuo to Institute of Ideas, which is a think-thank closely linked to the magazine and headed by Fox.FrFintonStack 01:58, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
So bearing in mind the results of the block log below, and considering that Spiked (magazine) is basically the only page that any of them have been editing, what happens now?FrFintonStack 03:06, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The edit histories of these accounts don't overlap at all. There's no policy against using an account for awhile and then switching to a new one, as long as the accounts aren't being used abusively. You need to solve the problems on this article through dispute resolution. Closing. --Akhilleus (talk) 22:43, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]