Per WP:DUCK.
In September 2013 User:Pigsonthewing (also known as Andy Mabbett) received a sanction from ArbCom banning him from adding infoboxes to any article: "Pigsonthewing is indefinitely banned from adding, or discussing the addition or removal of, infoboxes." [1].
Since late September 2013 a number of anonymous IPs have been adding infoboxes to articles very close to the same time Pigsonthewing has been editing them. The IPs locate to a shared computer at an educational address in Birmingham, UK (Birmingham Grid for Learning). By his own admission on his Wikipedia user page, Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing) is a resident of Birmingham, UK with links to education [2]. It looks like the IPs create infoboxes so that Pigsonthewing can subsequently edit them, because he can claim they were added by "someone else" and so he is not in violation of his ban. Usually, the addition of an infobox is the IPs' only contribution to the page.
Examples of suspicious behaviour (this list is far from exhaustive):
Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
There are 1 million people in Birmingham city and 2 million people in the surrounding urban area, including both Andy and myself. I live as close to the city centre as Andy does, worked in Birmingham, and have far more links with education than he does now, or ever had. On that evidence, I would seem a far likelier suspect for those IPs. A look at the geolocation for the IPs that Folantin lists shows that they are mainly school addresses, part of Birmingham Grid for Learning. Here's the BGfL homepage: http://www.bgfl.org/ . You can see for yourself that it's part of the National Grid for Learning (which connects schools to the internet) and you can also quickly click through from the homepage to the directory of schools at http://services.bgfl.org/cfpages/schools/default.cfm where you'll find that Birmingham has hundreds of schools connected to BGfL. The use of those IPs would seem to require Andy getting into schools and using their computers to edit Wikipedia pages. It's far more likely that there are many Wikipedia editors in Birmingham schools who may be adding infoboxes, considering that it's not an unusual edit: the majority of articles on the English Wikipedia have an infobox (at least 2.4 million out of 4.4 million). -- RexxS ( talk) 16:41, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
http://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/editorinteract.py?users=BethNaught+&users=Pigsonthewing&users=&startdate=&enddate=&ns=&allusers=on for one the template won't permit me to leave this as a link Second BethNaught showed up in this discussion , posted right after Andy, and is defending him. Further, both have the same style of speaking / spelling. Andy's from the UK, where the word "Naught" is used be mean "none" or "0", BethNaught doesn't say where she's from, and in fact, indicates that she doesn't declare her gender despite the feminine sounding name, and has a declared secondary account of BethZero which shows an understanding of the meaning of the word "naught". Also note the overlaping edits run the gamut from normal ANI stuff that you'd expect to see, but it also includes obscure stuff like templates (like office Talk), even Arb pages and other templates. In particular one makes a nom, one closes the nom. Feel free to check for yourself! KoshVorlon We are all Kosh 10:37 am, Today (UTC−4) KoshVorlon We are all Kosh 14:37, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
I will respond to each of KoshVorlon's statements in turn.
If there is any proper evidence against me please say and I will explain. I am emphatically not a sock of Andy Mabbett. Though I disapprove of some of his actions I am astonished that a few potentially ill-advised closures are leading to unfounded accusations of him socking. BethNaught ( talk) 18:52, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Without using any special tools (since I don't have any) I can say that BethNaught is very unlikely to be a sock of PigsOnTheWing. Simply looking at user contributions from the past 24 hours, I see both of them posting and editing separate items/pages the exact same minute several times during the past 24 hours. While not absolute proof, Andy's history shows he is way too busy to be messing around with a sock, especially one as active as BethNaught. Some overlap is natural on Wikipedia. I've seen both of these editors (and others) on more than one page I watch and/or edit. Both of these editors are from the same country, and it is obvious that both are educated, so it's also natural that they may prefer to use some of the same terms, spelling, etc. (And really, they can defend themselves better than I can, but seeing this even pop up was pretty annoying.) Etamni | ✉ | ✓ 19:06, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Please limit commentary to constructive discussion of the SPI.
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Per WP:DUCK.
In September 2013 User:Pigsonthewing (also known as Andy Mabbett) received a sanction from ArbCom banning him from adding infoboxes to any article: "Pigsonthewing is indefinitely banned from adding, or discussing the addition or removal of, infoboxes." [1].
Since late September 2013 a number of anonymous IPs have been adding infoboxes to articles very close to the same time Pigsonthewing has been editing them. The IPs locate to a shared computer at an educational address in Birmingham, UK (Birmingham Grid for Learning). By his own admission on his Wikipedia user page, Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing) is a resident of Birmingham, UK with links to education [2]. It looks like the IPs create infoboxes so that Pigsonthewing can subsequently edit them, because he can claim they were added by "someone else" and so he is not in violation of his ban. Usually, the addition of an infobox is the IPs' only contribution to the page.
Examples of suspicious behaviour (this list is far from exhaustive):
Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
There are 1 million people in Birmingham city and 2 million people in the surrounding urban area, including both Andy and myself. I live as close to the city centre as Andy does, worked in Birmingham, and have far more links with education than he does now, or ever had. On that evidence, I would seem a far likelier suspect for those IPs. A look at the geolocation for the IPs that Folantin lists shows that they are mainly school addresses, part of Birmingham Grid for Learning. Here's the BGfL homepage: http://www.bgfl.org/ . You can see for yourself that it's part of the National Grid for Learning (which connects schools to the internet) and you can also quickly click through from the homepage to the directory of schools at http://services.bgfl.org/cfpages/schools/default.cfm where you'll find that Birmingham has hundreds of schools connected to BGfL. The use of those IPs would seem to require Andy getting into schools and using their computers to edit Wikipedia pages. It's far more likely that there are many Wikipedia editors in Birmingham schools who may be adding infoboxes, considering that it's not an unusual edit: the majority of articles on the English Wikipedia have an infobox (at least 2.4 million out of 4.4 million). -- RexxS ( talk) 16:41, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
http://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/editorinteract.py?users=BethNaught+&users=Pigsonthewing&users=&startdate=&enddate=&ns=&allusers=on for one the template won't permit me to leave this as a link Second BethNaught showed up in this discussion , posted right after Andy, and is defending him. Further, both have the same style of speaking / spelling. Andy's from the UK, where the word "Naught" is used be mean "none" or "0", BethNaught doesn't say where she's from, and in fact, indicates that she doesn't declare her gender despite the feminine sounding name, and has a declared secondary account of BethZero which shows an understanding of the meaning of the word "naught". Also note the overlaping edits run the gamut from normal ANI stuff that you'd expect to see, but it also includes obscure stuff like templates (like office Talk), even Arb pages and other templates. In particular one makes a nom, one closes the nom. Feel free to check for yourself! KoshVorlon We are all Kosh 10:37 am, Today (UTC−4) KoshVorlon We are all Kosh 14:37, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
I will respond to each of KoshVorlon's statements in turn.
If there is any proper evidence against me please say and I will explain. I am emphatically not a sock of Andy Mabbett. Though I disapprove of some of his actions I am astonished that a few potentially ill-advised closures are leading to unfounded accusations of him socking. BethNaught ( talk) 18:52, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Without using any special tools (since I don't have any) I can say that BethNaught is very unlikely to be a sock of PigsOnTheWing. Simply looking at user contributions from the past 24 hours, I see both of them posting and editing separate items/pages the exact same minute several times during the past 24 hours. While not absolute proof, Andy's history shows he is way too busy to be messing around with a sock, especially one as active as BethNaught. Some overlap is natural on Wikipedia. I've seen both of these editors (and others) on more than one page I watch and/or edit. Both of these editors are from the same country, and it is obvious that both are educated, so it's also natural that they may prefer to use some of the same terms, spelling, etc. (And really, they can defend themselves better than I can, but seeing this even pop up was pretty annoying.) Etamni | ✉ | ✓ 19:06, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Please limit commentary to constructive discussion of the SPI.
Mike V •
Talk
22:25, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
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