Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TomPhan: Difference between revisions

This user has been stalking me for about a year and has accused me (with no evidence whatsoever) of felonies (in this case murder) and left death threats. Initially blocked, this user has made a persistent effort to get around the indef block through TOR node usage, bypassing semi-protected pages (namely my talk and user pages) by creating accounts that make benign edits, waiting four days, and then (no longer a "new user") attacking me in various places. He has gotten involved in at least 2 of my RfAs and, in my most recent, made at least 3 contributions under different names/IPs. I also realize that the given IPs will likely not be blocked (however one appears to be registered to a Sprint account and may provide more information...), but they do show a pattern of behavior and (aside from TOR node edits) are geographically centered.

Given the run of IPs and their locations, I believe it to be likely that this person used to live in Katy, Texas or the Houston Metro area and recently moved to the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area.

One more comment, the death threats and accusations of murder have been oversighted. — BQZip01 — ^talk 23:16, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by accused parties See Defending yourself against claims.

Comments by other users

Wow. This is a much bigger issue than what was so quickly dismissed by opposing eitors at BQ's recent RFA. No one should have to deal with death threats simply because they are an admitted United States military officer who edited Wikipedia. If Wikipedia becomes known as a site that allows such, I shudder to think what kind of precedent that would create. This should be nipped in the bud as quickly as possible. With haste. Great haste. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 23:05, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

CheckUser requests

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Checkuser request – code letter: E + C (Community ban/sanction evasion and vote stacking affecting outcome)

Current status –

Endorsed for Checkuser attention. Also F: User has made death threats and continues to cause disruption. It should be noted that the vote stacking occurred in a previous RfA (not my most recent). However, the same user contributed at least 3 different times to the most recent RfA under different names. Due to the number of different users, it is extremely hard to differentiate between legitimate users and sockpuppets and a checkuser is needed to separate the wheat from the chaff. Requested by — BQZip01 — ^talk 22:09, 15 May 2009 (UTC) [reply]

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Additional information needed: Please provide a code letter. SPCUClerkbot (talk) 22:09, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk endorsed for CU attention. Nathan^T ^{(formerly Avruch)} 22:42, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

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 * {{checkuser|1=Texsaxet}}
 * {{userlinks|Kvordenbaum}}
-*:This user deleted an image of me possibly to intentionally get under my skin. I'm not saying this one is TomPhan, but the edits are at least similar and would strike me as a possible link
+*:Throwaway account deleted an image of me possibly to intentionally get under my skin. I'm not saying this one is TomPhan, but the edits are at least similar and would strike me as a possible link
 * {{userlinks|Hoop2005}}
-*:This user deleted the same image as above, so the edits and style are at least similar and would strike me as a possible link
+*:Throwaway account deleted an image of me possibly to intentionally get under my skin. I'm not saying this one is TomPhan, but the edits are at least similar and would strike me as a possible link
 * {{userlinks|Macy's Parade}}
+*:Throwaway account accused me of murder
 * {{userlinks|SugarlandStockyards}}
+*:Throwaway account used to threaten to kill me
 * {{userlinks|Bulletin_des_Lois}}
+*:Throwaway account used to
 * {{userlinks|73 86 Hike}}
+*:Throwaway account used to distort the facts in my most recent RfA.
 * {{userlinks|MTurkeyGroupie}}
+*:Throwaway account used to distort the facts in my most recent RfA.
-* {{userlinks|Arma_virumque_cano}} Perhaps not, but possibly an SPA testing protection; only tangentially related
+* {{userlinks|Arma_virumque_cano}}
+*:possibly an SPA testing protection; tangentially related
 IPs:
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 * {{checkip|1=76.30.51.170}} also deleted an image of me
 * {{checkip|1=128.194.90.75}} also deleted the image
-* {{checkip|1=71.62.114.188}} on RfA4
+* {{checkip|1=71.62.114.188}}
+*:Used to make questions in my most recent RfA, but the questions bordered on stuff like "When are you going to stop beating your wife?"
 * {{checkip|1=70.19.125.82}}
 * {{checkip|1=68.166.64.246}}