Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/70.143.68.157

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User:70.143.68.157

Suspected sockpuppeteer

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

Suspected sockpuppets

Gtown05 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Bmccarren (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
209.233.180.44 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) 67.175.73.93 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Report submission by

Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  18:43, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Evidence

Special:Contributions/70.143.68.157

[1]

Special:Contributions/Bmccarren

[2], [3], [4]

Special:Contributions/Gtown05

[5], [6], [7], [8]

this account continues to edit in close proximity (time wise) to 70.143.68.157 Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  21:57, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/67.175.73.93

[9]

Posts to User talk:Jmfangio

[10] and [11] both show significant signs of "similarity" both in content and in location. Each was added at the top of the TP and not the bottom. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  22:50, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Potential others

These are others that have shown at least one similar edit - but show signs of significant contributions elsewhere.

Special:Contributions/209.233.180.44 - this edit

Methodology

Multiple accounts used for edit warring.

Comments

All edits are related to inserting statements about Michael Vick and the Bad Newz Kennels dog fighting investigation and almost all users edit Clinton Portis, Deion Sanders, Stephon Marbury and a handful of others.

Defense - I have no idea who those other guys are. This is completely ridiculous. It's clear that other people think that those statements belong on these guys' profiles. Just because you are in the minority here now you are going around starting sockpuppet cases against people... totally ridiculous. Face it: these statements belong on these guys wiki pages. You are in the wrong here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.143.68.157 (talk) 21:36, August 28, 2007 (UTC)

Defense from the Other - I have done no edits to Clinton Portis or Deion Sanders. Your kindly allowance of a mention of Marbury's defense of Vick, on Marbury's page now, is cited from MSNC from Newsweek and is incomplete. I got my info from the Associated Press, the full quote as it appeared in the Sports News section of my homepage. Sorry if I wasn't familiar with "sockpuppetry" but I did improve your edit and then you removed the content altogether. Now it's back and incomplete. You should mention that Marbury retracted his statement the following day if you care about factual. Look at the story on AP. Never again will I copy and paste my own well written FACTUAL info back into a page; I'll just re-write it. That is something I learned from this ridiculous episode at least. Your accusation of me as a "sockpuppet" is out of line. Michael Vick has been a d*ck in my book since he flipped off the Atlanta fans. He's never been as good as expected and now we know where he was diverting his attention.Bmccarren 01:14, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

All these athletes who support Vick's actions, especially now that Vick has admitted to EVERYTHING, deserve to have this note, particularly due to the the bits about electrocuting and hanging the dogs, on their Wiki pages. Keep crying wolf about sock puppeteers but some people are passionate about animals and sports and that's all they care to comment about. As you obviously did not notice, this "story" has created quite a bit of interest in the country. . Bmccarren 00:58, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

I think this one could use a trip to WP:RFCU. --B 05:14, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Conclusions

• Seems possible, but activity seems to have died down. --Akhilleus (talk) 16:00, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

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