Just spotted this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Soc..._Damian/ArchiveQUOTE
Suspected sockpuppets
24.22.141.252 (talk • contribs • abuse log • WHOIS · RBLs • block user • block log • checkip)
Evidence submitted by Fences and windows
This IP user has lately been focussing on deleting and criticising articles edited by User:Benjiboi, e.g. they nominated by proxy Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tactical frivolity. A sockpuppet of Peter Damian, User:The Land Surveyor, had already been blocked after opening Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DJ Pusspuss (2nd nomination), an article which Benjiboi started.
The IP first crossed paths with Benjiboi on 16 August, before the DJ Pusspuss AfD:[1].
From his posts on Wikipedia Review Peter Damian seems obsessed with Benjiboi's editing, and Peter Damian was previously in disagreement with Benjiboi on-wiki too.[2] On that thread he makes plain the reason for the choice of the username "Peter Damian" - St. Peter Damian was a notable opponent of homosexuality; the articles the IP user is objecting to mostly concern the SF gay scene.
Peter Damian has shown an interest off-wiki in the editing of this IP user, to the extent of quoting this in his signature on Wikipedia Review: "I have this horrible psychological tic which leaves me unable to productively collaborate with compulsive plagiarists and liars. Obviously, Wikipedia is full of these, and an ability to interact positively with them is important. We should strive to make everyone, especially game-players and liars, feel at home. If regular people try to stop this, they should be banned.24.22.141.252 (talk) 12:00, 6 September 2009 (UTC)."[3]
What gives me pause is that the topics the IP started editing on, linguistics, are not those same as the interests of Peter Damian, which were philosophy. But the editor is clearly not a newbie - they are well versed in the ways of Wikipedia and dropped a note to User:Thekohser, another WR regular - and the quacking is loud enough for me to file this. If this isn't a sockpuppet of Peter Damian, it'll be the sock of another editor.
Wrong on all counts - even the 'what gives me pause' bit. I have edited on linguistics before (remember 'AmericanLinguist').
And I am of course a notable opponent of
pederasty, or least, when pederasts start promoting their disturbing views on Wikipedia.
The IP is on a different continent.
This post has been edited by Peter Damian: