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User:JScott06[edit]

Suspected sockpuppeteer

JScott06 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

Flash94 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Faz90 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Fairlane75 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
66.158.227.79 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Strongbad1982 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

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Atub1 (talk) 10:51, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

They all have the same subjects of interest (racial issues, Maryland, Köppen climate classification, Humid subtropical & continental climate, User:Auno3); JScott06, Flash94 and IP have been making near identical edits. I have looked around their history pages and I have found striking similarities in their reverts. Fairlane75 and Faz90 ended editing on 13 February. Flash94 first appeared on 14 February. Similar names for Flash94, Faz90, Fairlane75; same blanked or non-existent userpages[1],[2]; Flash94's userpage suddenly appeared after I filed this report.[3]

Here are a few examples:

JScott06: Edit warring: [4], [5], [6], Racial issues: [7], [8], [9], [10], Climate: [11], [12], Temperature chart: [13]

Flash94: Edit warring: [14], [15], Racial issues: [16], [17], [18], Climate: [19], [20], [21]

Faz90: Racial issues: [22], [23], [24], Climate: [25], [26], Temperature chart: [27]

Fairlane75: Racial issues: [28], [29], [30], [31]

Strongbad1982: Racial issues: [32], Climate: [33], [34], Temperature chart: [35]

66.158.227.79: Edit warring: [36]

Comments

I am in fact User:JScott06. I scrambled my password with the intent on taking an extended "hiatus" from Wikipedia, although it didn't last as long as I hoped. I have never used multiple accounts to edit war nor have I used them to evade blocks, as User:Auno3 and User:Jack.Hartford have done. If my behavior still falls under abuse of alternate accounts, then I will happily submit to a block or ban.

That said, I am not any of the other names listed above. This is a retaliatory accusation for my suspicion that Atub1 is a sockpuppet of User:Jack.Hartford.

Strongbad1982 reverts edits by Faz90 here[37], JScott06 here[38] and here[39]. He posts a comment on JScott's talk page here[40]. Unless you think I like to revert my own edits repeatedly, it's clear that Strongbad and I are not the same person.

Faz90 and I do seem to share an interest in climate and Maryland. However Faz90 also focused on articles relating to Islam (Islamofascism, Islamophobia, Anti-Arabism, etc.), whereas I focus on articles relating to African Americans and white nationalist organizations. Faz90 also uses multiple exclamation points and question marks at times. See edit summaries here[41], here[42] and here[43]. Also note that Faz90 has been making climate-related edits since day one (December 2005). JScott's first such edit wasn't until late in 2007.

While Fairlane75 and I have edited common articles (interracial marriage and miscegenation), Fairlane is more history-oriented (anti-miscegenation laws, Reconstruction, court cases, etc.) while I focus on modern white nationalist-related topics (racial realism, Occidental Quarterly, New Century Foundation, Jared Taylor). Fairlane has never edited climate-related articles.

Note that unlike the other users, Flash94 and JScott06 have used reversion tools (popups and Twinkle). Also, the other users have almost exclusively edited the main space. A much higher proportion of JScott's and Flash's edits are to the project namespace. Flash94 (talk) 03:27, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If Faz90 and I are truly the same person, it would be pretty tough to make simultaneous edits like these:

Faz90: 17:33, September 22, 2006 (hist) (diff) m Humid subtropical climate‎ (→Characteristics and variants)
JScott06: 17:38, September 22, 2006 (hist) (diff) Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of short actors‎ (deletion discussion for List of short actors)
Faz90: 17:38, September 22, 2006 (hist) (diff) Humid subtropical climate‎ (→Characteristics and variants) (with popups, you can see that this edit was made 17 seconds after the previous edit by JScott)
JScott06: 17:39, September 22, 2006 (hist) (diff) Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2006 September 22‎ (adding List of short actors)

Near-simultaneous edits here - more inexplicable logging in and out between accounts:

Fairlane75: 09:23, September 16, 2007 (hist) (diff) Caen
JScott06: 09:25, September 16, 2007 (hist) (diff) m Ted Wang‎ (rv trolling)
Fairlane75: 09:26, September 16, 2007 (hist) (diff) J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Flash94 (talk) 14:05, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, Atub1/Jack.Hartford/Bloodhol/Viperes/Elpom claims that the IP has "been making near identical edits", but it has just a single edit where it removed material from rape statistics. Given the inflammatory nature of the paragraph they deleted, it's not surprising that someone would take issue with it. The IP traces to Orlando, Florida - why would someone from Florida have so many edits to Maryland-related articles? Flash94 (talk) 19:50, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please...I wasn't aware of this sockpuppet case when I edited my userpage, and that part wasn't even listed as evidence at the time. Also JScott did, at one time, have a userpage.[44]

For Strongbad1982...again, near-simultaneous contributions, undoing each other's edits, and posting on each other's talk pages:

JScott: 16:42, November 17, 2007 (hist) (diff) User talk:Strongbad1982‎ (→Baltimore and Nashville: new section)

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Flash94 (talk) 18:13, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

Checkuser shows that Flash94 is the puppetmaster of a dozen troll accounts; all now blocked, along with JScott06. Faz, Fairlane and Strongbad are Unrelated to JScott06 and to each other. Thatcher 03:41, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]