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There is an entire forum of Ian Tresman allies angry at my activity at Wikipedia:
[1]. Soupdragon, it turns out, is one of the names of one of the members there other than Iantresman.
ScienceApologist (
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16:10, 10 April 2008 (UTC)reply
I am going to block the main account for two weeks to discourage further harassment, and I will indef the other sock puppet account with a soft block. There is no legitimate reason to operate a second account. It only serves to evade scrutiny.
JehochmanTalk16:36, 10 April 2008 (UTC)reply
Blocked since when, and on what grounds? If someone filed a CheckUser request, that does not automatically constitute guilt on our parts. Innocent until proven guilty. The conclusions of the archived discussion
Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Iantresman state that there is no strong reason to think that Applecola and myself are sockpuppet. The CheckUser request was filed on the thinnest of evidence, and I was eagerly anticipating the results. In fact, I find it insulting to suggest, with the full knowledge and proof of me being a real person distinct from Ian Tresman (moreover, residing on, and connecting, traceably, from a different continent), that I would allow anyone to borrow my account--as if I couldn't speak for myself! This blocking is entirely ungrounded. I hope that it's a sincere mistake and does not represent an indirect attempt to use a CheckUser request to decide the matter against us without even doing it, where a true and unbiased check would definitely prove us innocent. --
Leokor02:26, 2 November 2007 (UTC)reply
I personally have no evidence that you have ever done anything wrong. I was correcting a misstatement by Dmcdevit in which he said that you had been blocked. Right now I am not advocating any action except running the CheckUser, which is apparently what you want too.
Cardamon04:41, 2 November 2007 (UTC)reply
Thanks. Still, I have some questions regarding this case. Neither Applecola nor Tsyko had been blocked prior to the request. CheckUser was filed, presumably, in order to find evidence to block them. CheckUser was not performed on them. And they are now blocked. I hope I'm misreading this. --
Leokor14:09, 2 November 2007 (UTC)reply
In my opinion, the objective evidence of such a CheckUser would avoid giving the impression that one side of the plasma cosmology/mainstream vendetta has once again outmuscled the other.
Art LaPella20:13, 2 November 2007 (UTC)reply
Is this how you see it, then? So the matter was somehow already decided, and you wanted to maintain appearance? And here's me thinking that objective evidence is the only kind of evidence there can be, of which you had, and still have, none at all. --
Leokor03:42, 4 November 2007 (UTC)reply
User(s)
blocked.: The contribs make it obvious that this is a throwaway account created to participate in the discussions surrounding Iantresman, and is almost certainly one of Ian's sockpuppets. I've blocked it indefinitely; I don't know that checkuser is necessary in a case like this, though I'll leave that up to the powers that be. MastCellTalk21:24, 17 July 2007 (UTC)reply
At the very least, Girls4girls is a meatpuppet of Iantresman--I still believe the checkuser should be run for a definitive answer as to whether it's a sock or just a meatpuppet.
Blueboy9622:18, 17 July 2007 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the Request for checkuser. Please do not modify it. Subsequent requests related to this user should be made above, in a new section.
If you are creating a new request about this user, please add it to the top of the page, above this notice. Don't forget to add {{Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Iantresman}} to the checkuser page
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The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a
Request for checkuser. Please do not modify it.
There is an entire forum of Ian Tresman allies angry at my activity at Wikipedia:
[1]. Soupdragon, it turns out, is one of the names of one of the members there other than Iantresman.
ScienceApologist (
talk)
16:10, 10 April 2008 (UTC)reply
I am going to block the main account for two weeks to discourage further harassment, and I will indef the other sock puppet account with a soft block. There is no legitimate reason to operate a second account. It only serves to evade scrutiny.
JehochmanTalk16:36, 10 April 2008 (UTC)reply
Blocked since when, and on what grounds? If someone filed a CheckUser request, that does not automatically constitute guilt on our parts. Innocent until proven guilty. The conclusions of the archived discussion
Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Iantresman state that there is no strong reason to think that Applecola and myself are sockpuppet. The CheckUser request was filed on the thinnest of evidence, and I was eagerly anticipating the results. In fact, I find it insulting to suggest, with the full knowledge and proof of me being a real person distinct from Ian Tresman (moreover, residing on, and connecting, traceably, from a different continent), that I would allow anyone to borrow my account--as if I couldn't speak for myself! This blocking is entirely ungrounded. I hope that it's a sincere mistake and does not represent an indirect attempt to use a CheckUser request to decide the matter against us without even doing it, where a true and unbiased check would definitely prove us innocent. --
Leokor02:26, 2 November 2007 (UTC)reply
I personally have no evidence that you have ever done anything wrong. I was correcting a misstatement by Dmcdevit in which he said that you had been blocked. Right now I am not advocating any action except running the CheckUser, which is apparently what you want too.
Cardamon04:41, 2 November 2007 (UTC)reply
Thanks. Still, I have some questions regarding this case. Neither Applecola nor Tsyko had been blocked prior to the request. CheckUser was filed, presumably, in order to find evidence to block them. CheckUser was not performed on them. And they are now blocked. I hope I'm misreading this. --
Leokor14:09, 2 November 2007 (UTC)reply
In my opinion, the objective evidence of such a CheckUser would avoid giving the impression that one side of the plasma cosmology/mainstream vendetta has once again outmuscled the other.
Art LaPella20:13, 2 November 2007 (UTC)reply
Is this how you see it, then? So the matter was somehow already decided, and you wanted to maintain appearance? And here's me thinking that objective evidence is the only kind of evidence there can be, of which you had, and still have, none at all. --
Leokor03:42, 4 November 2007 (UTC)reply
User(s)
blocked.: The contribs make it obvious that this is a throwaway account created to participate in the discussions surrounding Iantresman, and is almost certainly one of Ian's sockpuppets. I've blocked it indefinitely; I don't know that checkuser is necessary in a case like this, though I'll leave that up to the powers that be. MastCellTalk21:24, 17 July 2007 (UTC)reply
At the very least, Girls4girls is a meatpuppet of Iantresman--I still believe the checkuser should be run for a definitive answer as to whether it's a sock or just a meatpuppet.
Blueboy9622:18, 17 July 2007 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the Request for checkuser. Please do not modify it. Subsequent requests related to this user should be made above, in a new section.