Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Cupidcobra
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the case of suspected sockpuppetry. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page. All edits should go to the talk page of this case. If you are seeing this page as a result of an attempt to open a new case of sockpuppetry of the same user, read this for detailed instructions.
- Suspected sockpuppeteer
Cupidcobra (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
- Suspected sockpuppets
59.178.216.13 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
59.178.221.2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
59.178.213.112 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
59.178.193.78 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
59.178.198.204 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
59.178.221.95 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
59.178.214.206 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
59.178.192.140 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
59.178.222.27 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
59.178.211.94 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
- Report submission by
Murmurer (talk) 08:57, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Evidence
User:Cupidcobra repeatedly changed headers in Sexism_in_India without seeking consensus [1] [2], and after the changes were reverted, several IP addresses made similar edits: [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]. Other IP addresses in the 59.178.x.x range made destructive edits to the same page [12] [13], including attempts to falsely attribute an edit [14] [15] to a user which Cupidcobra had a dispute with [16]. Some of the same IP addresses also repeatedly removed an older sockpuppet warning on User:Cupidcobra's page [17] [18], which Cupidcobra has also done several times [19] [20].
- Comments
Added another IP address to the list: 59.178.211.94. Murmurer (talk) 12:01, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Conclusions
Okay, this is the second time, after User:Newshounddog, that I've seen someone make an SSP report using a single-purpose account. I'm just going to ignore all such reports in the future. If you're going to throw stones at another user, don't live in a glass house - have the guts to stand up from your own user account, or if you don't have an account, identify your role in this matter as an anonymous editor. Sorry, but I don't think this is worth my time to look at. I'll leave a note for Murmurer to respond to this. Yechiel (Shalom) 19:47, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Regarding the substance of the matter, yes, they are probably sockpuppets. This edit by one of the listed IP addresses to User talk:Cupidcobra is telling. Yechiel (Shalom) 19:50, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I have already notified User talk:Cupidcobra about the nature of this account, and I have emailed the Arbitration Committee as well. This is the IP address I've been using: Special:Contributions/98.226.245.252. I created this account in order to make this page, but I will use it for all my edits from this point forward. While such concerns about single-purpose accounts are understandable, I was hoping that the evidence would speak for itself. Murmurer (talk) 23:03, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Just to confirm that what Murmerer has said is true. (Bias against IP accounts is hardly worthy of an admin. AGF?)Yobmod (talk) 08:49, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]