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Posted by: Ottava

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Michaeldsuarez/Sockpuppetry: "This page is intended to gather information about the possibility that Cupco is a sockpuppet of Dualus and Nrcprm2026."

Well, Mikey, you were right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Nrcprm2026/Archive and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Dualus/Archive are not two big sock masters, but one REALLY big sock master.

Here is some evidence to help you out: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ottava_Rima&action=history after I showed that their claims to have an FA while banned were bs and they were stealing from my grand achievement. (James Salsman was deemed nrcprm2026 and Paum89 was Dualus)



It always feels nice to be vindicated, no?

Posted by: Michaeldsuarez

http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showuser=76279

He has an account here named "jsalsman". The Wikipedia Review was down during most of October, so I could've use jsalsman's WR posts as evidence. For example, there's jsalsman's thread about "Survival sex":

http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=37264

jslaman revised the article as "Weltoners":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Weltoners

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/85.230.127.113

But then there's this post:

http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?act=findpost&pid=303177

jsalsman complained about a graph that Fae removed. Who made the graph? An user who came out of the blue:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/CLDunlap

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/CLDunlap

The "CLDunlap" account was created about forty hours after "Weltoners" was blocked:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&page=User%3AWeltoners

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=newusers&page=User%3ACLDunlap

Coincidence? No, I don't believe so. Weltoners = CLDunlap = jsalsman

Posted by: Michaeldsuarez

I have more "CLDunlap = jsalsman" evidence.

On May 29, 2012, CLDunlap uploaded a mugshot of Brett Kimberlin onto Commons:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=upload&page=File%3ABrett_Kimberlin.jpeg

Around ten minutes later, an anon adds the image to enwiki's "Brett Kimberlin" article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brett_Kimberlin&diff=494904924&oldid=494903513

The anon's contributions meets many of the characteristics of jsalsman's other sockpuppets / IP addresses:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/71.212.251.217

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/71.212.251.217

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Michaeldsuarez/Sockpuppetry

On July 23, 2012, CLDunlap uploaded a picture of James Holmes onto Commons:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=upload&page=File%3AJames_Holmes_booking_photo.jpg

Several minutes later, an anon adds the image to the "James Eagan Holmes" article and the "2012 Aurora shooting" article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Eagan_Holmes&diff=503854986&oldid=503853499

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2012_Aurora_shooting&diff=503856532&oldid=503856262

This anon also meets the characteristics that I mentioned on metawikipedia:User:Michaeldsuarez/Sockpuppetry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/75.166.200.250

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/75.166.200.250

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Michaeldsuarez/Sockpuppetry

It's reasonable to conclude that these IP addresses were once used by CLDunlap. I also believe that the following IP address belonged to CLDunlap:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/71.212.237.94

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/71.212.237.94

If that's so, then that means CLDunlap was speaking to himself on Commons in order to further his deception:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Graphic_Lab/Illustration_workshop&oldid=70021870#Homeless_kids_in_the_United_States

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Homeless_children_in_US_2006-10.png&diff=70021490&oldid=69973982

Posted by: Ottava

To be honest Michael, sock puppet hunting is one of the few things I think a criticism site should be devoted to. As long as there is anonymity, sock puppetry is incredibly easy. The system is set up that socks have a lot of power. Look at the other thread I have on the Persian Empire - Kurdo has a long history of socks (and is still running socks). He uses it to POV war, and he uses the socks to back up a meat puppetry set. They are some of the worst offenders yet ArbCom let them off the hook.

The other thing I think is necessary for a site to look into is plagiarism. Socking and plagiarism also tend to be closely connected (plagiarism used to set people up as "content editors" to get admin privileges and such).

Posted by: Michaeldsuarez

QUOTE(Michaeldsuarez @ Thu 15th November 2012, 12:01am)