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Xn4

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Report date February 26 2009, 17:04 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

• Strawless (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

Evidence submitted by Cool Hand Luke

Strawless and Xn4 editing

These appear to be socks. Apparently abusive tag team editing was documented by User:Fowler&fowler at User:Fowler&fowler/Xn4-Strawless-Editing-Histories. The most interesting tidbit is this: "Xn4 had pledged to admin Philip Baird Shearer that he wouldn't revert British India from a dab page to a stand-alone article, but if someone else did so, he would feel free to edit it; soon thereafter, Strawless reverted the article back to a standalone, and Xn4 began to edit it."

Fowler&fowler was looking at the editing times. I made a graph and have found that they rarely edit at the same time although they are usually in the same timezone. This is very improbable, so I ran checkuser myself. They appear to be socks, I am only asking for an independent checkuser to confirm this. Thank you.

Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

This is all quite wrong. I am on a large network which shares an IP address. Anyone who looks at File:Strawless and Xn4.png will see that Strawless and I have several times been editing at the same time. As I look at it, the chart shows nothing like "tag team editing" and while I agree that "they rarely edit at the same time", I do not know what significance there is in that. More important, there was a period of more than a month in 2008 when I was in France and Strawless (presumably) was not.

I see that this is merely a ban on my editing particular pages for a short time, which seems very odd. I am not suspended, merely removed from a particular discussion. How very convenient to those on the other side of the argument! In any event, I see that while I am accused of sockpuppetry and banned from two pages, others on the same network are banned permanently from Wikipedia as suspected sockpuppets, even though they have no connection with this matter. I expect some of them will have their own objections. Xn4 (talk) 23:35, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Comments by other users

They all seemed like bright people, user:Xn4, user:Strawless, and user:Umar Zulfikar Khan. I had wondered about UZK as well, ... What a waste! Makes me sad. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 01:42, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

CheckUser requests

Checkuser request – code letter: F (Other reason )

Current status – Completed: Reviewed by a Checkuser, results and comments are below.    Requested by Cool Hand Luke 17:04, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

•  Clerk endorsed - Tiptoety ^talk 00:30, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Conclusions

 Confirmed, also he has Umar Zulfikar Khan (talk · contribs) and two others... what were they called? YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 00:53, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Dzw49 (talk · contribs) and RF75 (talk · contribs) YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 01:26, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

This case has been marked as closed. It has been archived automatically.

Nothing to see here. Tiptoety ^talk 01:43, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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