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Suspected sockpuppeteer

Mrheadhappyday (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

Happyheadhappyday (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

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Copysan (talk) 04:25, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

1. The usernames are very similar. (Mrheadhappyday vs Happyheadhappyday)
2. The puppermaster User:Mrheadhappyday has a history of vandalism and was blocked for 24 hours. Nearly all of his edits were vandalism was centered around the page No Cussing Club, as well as the User pages of editors (User:Copysan and User:Limaindia) who reverted his vandalism on No Cussing Club, as can be seen in these diffs:
   • No Cussing Club: [1][2][3][4][5]
   • User:Limaindia: [6]
   • User:Copysan: [7][8][9][10]
3. The sockpuppet also has a history of vandalism on No Cussing Club [11][12].

Same sorts of vandalism on the same article and similar usernames.

Comments

I have not bothered to edit wikipedia in the past few weeks nor have been making sock puppet accounts to do so. My only explanation is that another troll saw who was doing much of the vandalism on the No Cussing Club's article and made an account name similar to mine. As I stated when I was on my vandalism rampage a few weeks ago, I grew bored with vandalizing wikipedia after a while. I do admit, however, that I have logged on to this account several times in the past few weeks, so that's something you have against me. However this doesn't constitute hard evidence against me. Happyhead has also not vandalized the user pages of the two users in question and thus this does not constitute proper evidence against me. My explanation as to why the vandalism is similar is because a) the obvious thing to do when vandalizing an article like the no cussing club is writing words such as fuck in it or b) because me and the other vandals were made aware of the wikipedia article through encyclopedia dramatica and wrote things that were in the no cussing club's encyclopedia dramatica article in the wikipedia article of said group.--Mrheadhappyday (talk) 14:13, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

Alleged sock account didn't edit whilst the main account was blocked, so no violation. Even if it had, I would have said that it's not exactly an open and shut case anyway. Assuming good faith and all, Mrheadhappyday makes a good point. If you're violating No Cussing Club, you're gonna cuss while you do it. _GB^T/C 16:25, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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