QUOTE(prospero @ Tue 17th June 2008, 7:36pm)
Thank you Moulton! I was worried when there was no comment from you about this yesterday, but it seems like you really did your homework on this one. Not much more that I can add, but like I said in those AN/I threads, those ID punks rushing to AN/I was quite suspicious.
Alison and Lar, you guys really should forward this information to ArbCom. If what Moulton says is true, I have no reason to believe otherwise, then Filll has been up to no good. Not only has he been potentially engaging in abusive sockpuppetry, he has been misrepresenting himself as an agent of the Foundation (yes, I know some on here think that all editors should be treated as such, but that isn't the point here).
I'm not convinced there is any sock-puppetry involved.
It's quite possible all three accounts are different people with the same name.
The so-called imposter/impersonator gave a Zip+4 code that uniquely identified a
real person named Robert Stevens living in Woodbridge VA, who (among other things) edited the article on Woodbridge VA during his brief sojourn on the English Wikipedia. I suppose someone could call him up at the listed phone number and interview him to find out his story.
I have no idea who
User:Robert Stevens is, but that may be yet a third person with that name. I suppose it would take a CheckUser to resolve the issue. Meantime,
this version of his user page is amusing.
Finally, I don't actually know that "Bob Stevens" is Filll's real name. It's the name he uses on his Yahoo E-Mail. But most people don't use their real name on Yahoo E-Mail, so it's possible he is using that name as a pseudonym, too. Nor do I know of any way to find out, one way or the other.
All I know for a fact is that Filll sent those E-Mails to me and to Alexandra Kahn, and used a Yahoo E-Mail account in the name of "Bob Stevens". What I can also tell you is that Bob/Filll originated his August 2007 Yahoo E-Mails to me from IP Address 69.140.98.149
[c-69-140-98-149.hsd1.md.comcast.net], which puts him in Maryland, just as his Skype ID,
bob.in.md suggests.