Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Carnun

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Suspected sockpuppeteer

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

Suspected sockpuppets

Compower (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Nownownow (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
69.121.234.204 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

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--Steven J. Anderson (talk) 11:03, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

On Dec. 4, Carnun was blocked for a week for date warring, primarily on articles relating to South Asia. The Compower account was created within the last 24 hours. This new account immediately began a similar pattern of date warring, changing BCE/CE era style to BC/AD style. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Note the misleading edit summaries, i.e. "spelling" and "fixed mixed dating" (used when changing 15 instances of BCE/CE to match a single instance of his preferred era style). Note, also, the inappropriate tagging of the edits as "minor." This is all fairly standard date-warring. What makes me suspicious that this user is a sock of Carnun is his similar interest in simplifying the names of certain countries. Carnun does this here. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Compower does it here. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] Although I see nothing inherently objectionable about these changes in the names of countries, they are evidence of a similar area of interest and editing style.

--Steven J. Anderson (talk) 07:42, 13 December 2007 (UTC) I just added Nownownow and an IP to this page, note Nownownow's similar interest in Asia and pattern of date warring. Two near identical edits by Nownownow and 69.121.234.204: [16] [17] The best examples of the IP's conduct are his oldest edits[reply]

Also note the similarity of Nownownow's edit summaries ("consistency," "common usage," "simplified") to Carnun's and IP's interest in Fauna of Australia to Nownownow's in Australian megafauna. -Steven J. Anderson 09:26, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Compower looks like Carnun to me - exactly his signature. Just in case, I put a block warning on his talk page. kwami (talk) 18:22, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The next two do not have his modus operandi. It's not unreasonable that someone would see Carnun's edits being reverted, and decide to join in - that might explain the overlap of articles. Another IP that just cropped up is User:125.253.16.156. kwami (talk) 19:44, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

Carnun was just blocked for a month. Compower I've blocked as his sock, pretty obvious to me. But I'm not convinced of Nownownow, so I did not block him. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:59, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]