The result of the previous conversation is that Trevj created a user box {{ User shared IP address private}} and listed it at Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Related accounts. I think that this is a mistake. The whole point of the deceleration of "This user shares an IP address with: Username." is to reduce the chance of an sockmaster being able to hide behind the family argument. See for example user:Xn4, Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Xn4 and User talk:Umar Zulfikar Khan#Account blocked indefinitely.
This new template is open to abuse so I suggest that it is removed from Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Related accounts any objections and if so why? -- PBS ( talk) 08:58, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Frog890/Archive (2–5 September 2012) and see this revision 11 September 2012 of User talk:Frog890. It is an example of a sockmaster in this case closing the stable door after the horse had bolted, but with an assumption of good faith, its use before 2 of September would have complicated the sockpuppet investigation.
Another example is here: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jay Starz/Archive (23–29 August 2012). While the template {{ User shared IP address private}} has not been used, and there was no sockpuppet, pre-emptively adding {{ User shared IP address}} to the two accounts mentioned in the investigation would have brought transparency to the issue which {{ User shared IP address private}} would not. -- PBS ( talk) 14:10, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
The result of the previous conversation is that Trevj created a user box {{ User shared IP address private}} and listed it at Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Related accounts. I think that this is a mistake. The whole point of the deceleration of "This user shares an IP address with: Username." is to reduce the chance of an sockmaster being able to hide behind the family argument. See for example user:Xn4, Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Xn4 and User talk:Umar Zulfikar Khan#Account blocked indefinitely.
This new template is open to abuse so I suggest that it is removed from Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Related accounts any objections and if so why? -- PBS ( talk) 08:58, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Frog890/Archive (2–5 September 2012) and see this revision 11 September 2012 of User talk:Frog890. It is an example of a sockmaster in this case closing the stable door after the horse had bolted, but with an assumption of good faith, its use before 2 of September would have complicated the sockpuppet investigation.
Another example is here: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jay Starz/Archive (23–29 August 2012). While the template {{ User shared IP address private}} has not been used, and there was no sockpuppet, pre-emptively adding {{ User shared IP address}} to the two accounts mentioned in the investigation would have brought transparency to the issue which {{ User shared IP address private}} would not. -- PBS ( talk) 14:10, 26 September 2012 (UTC)