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Kingjeff (talk · contribs)

Kingjeff nominated an article for the WP:FAID football article improvement drive a couple of weeks ago and got upset when it was taken off the list, according to the AID rules, after nobody else voted for it. He put it back on and it immediately attracted a vote from Hargreavesfan (talk · contribs), a user whose only previous contribution had been to vote on another poll the same way that Kingjeff had, five minutes after Kingjeff had cast his vote.[1] As I write, more than half of Hargreavesfan's contributions have been votes.[2]

Since then, several new people have shown up on the FAID, and it's heading towards the point where it will become a farce. A suspiciously high number of these appear to be Bayern Munich supporters from the USA and Canada, which fits with Interiot's tool's suggestion that Kingjeff is based in the Americas, assuming a normal work/school day.[3] So far we have:

• Kingjeff (talk · contribs) and Hargreavesfan (talk · contribs) as above
• TwilaStar (talk · contribs) has never edited a football article but has suddenly decided to vote on four
• Jhohenzollern (talk · contribs) has never edited a football article and spends as much time voting as editing anything. Has an edit history very similar to TwilaStar's.
• SpandX (talk · contribs) ditto
• Jack o lantern (talk · contribs) new user, first edit was to Football AID
• Kaiser23 (talk · contribs) new user, first edit was on the football AID

Please could you check these out to give us an idea of which, if any are sockpuppets? Thanks, CTOAGN (talk) 10:12, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Hargreavesfan is a definite sockpuppet of User:Kingjeff. Kingjeff is in Canada, and User:Kaiser23 is on the same ISP, but they appear to have never used the same IP, and thus this is insufficient to prove sockpuppetry.

It appears that User:Afrosheen, User:TwilaStar, User:SpandX, User:Caponer, User:Skurrkrow, User:Jhohenzollern and others are all the same user.

User:Jack o lantern is unlikely to be either, since the IP is outside the US. —Matthew Brown (T:C) 04:38, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Will the sockpuppets be blocked? Conscious 13:26, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for doing this, but please could you list all of the sockpuppets linked to Jhollernzollern? We'll need to know who they are so we can discount votes from any of them. CTOAGN (talk) 15:07, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to express to all parties involved that I share an IP connection with my four roommates who are all active contributors to Wikipedia, especially on topics concerning West Virginia (which is where we all currently reside using a Cumberland, Maryland service). I personally have only ever used this name that I am posting with now. I have knowledge of the use of the names SpandX, TwilaStar, Jhohenzollern, and Skurrkrow...I cannot account for Afrosheen. --Caponer 01:21, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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