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Crop circle: Martinphi makes three reverts: 18:53, 11 March 2007 20:59, 11 March 2007 21:41, 11 March 2007. Seven minutes after Martin's third revert (and Myriam's first edit in hours), Myriam arrives, first edit ever to the article 21:49, 11 March 2007, removes text 21:52, 11 March 2007 that had been previously fact tagged by Martin 17:02, 7 February 2007, then after a few intermediate edits, made an edit to a wording similar to the version Martinphi had previously reverting to 00:14, 12 March 2007, inserting both "many" and an attribution for the second part of the sentence.
Remote viewing: Martinphi edits the intro 01:12, 6 March 2007, twice reverts to that version 16:47, 10 March 2007 19:10, 10 March 2007 (which had been reverted by two different editors). Myriam does the next revert to Martinphi's version 15:23, 11 March 2007 and later removes "purported" 21:47, 11 March 2007, as Martinphi has done a number of times at Psychic for similar reasons 16:33, 9 March 2007 16:51, 10 March 2007.
Psychic: Martinphi has made many edits taking out phrases such as "purported", "profess to be" etc for example 20:30, 2 March 2007 with the edit summary (" 'psychic' doesn't mean people who say they are psychic- it only means people who are psychic. If they aren't when they claim to be, they aren't psychic.") also 15:36, 3 March 2007, 20:50, 3 March 2007. Then, Martinphi reverted the inclusion of the disputed nature in the definition 15:28, 4 March 2007, edit summary: "(Let's leave the sentence concerning the use of the word as a noun seperate from whether or not the phenomena exists. One topic per sentence)"
Similar patterns at Electronic Voice Phenomenon and talk page, I can add diffs if there is interest.
Here's the diffs only version of potential 3RR reverts (from Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Martinphi)
Crop circle: Martinphi reverts:
Myriam Tobias revert: 00:14, 12 March 2007
Myriam Tobias has edited a total of ten pages by my count (plus talk pages for those articles) since the account was created on March 5, and every single one is a page Martinphi has also edited. Many of these are pages on which Martinphi is involved in content disputes and has approached or exceeded 3RR. His edits and talk page comments consistently agree with Martinphi's, and he often appears within minutes of Martin's edits to back him up, often only when Martin has made three reverts or when it is pointed out that a majority of editors disagree with him. The editing patterns and online appearances are just too improbable to be coincidence (particularly when those ten pages include obscure ones like Ganzfeld experiment and Odic force). The use of edit summaries and reversions seems to indicate an experienced wiki user as opposed to a new editor who has only been here about a week.
It appears that this sockpuppet is being used to bolster "consensus" and avoid 3RR. While it's possible that it isn't a sockpuppet, if it isn't it seems almost certainly to be a meatpuppet, which should also be looked into by admins. -- Milo H Minderbinder 14:10, 12 March 2007 (UTC) reply
Checkuser confirmed relation of accounts, Myriam Tobias blocked. Martinphi is warned that if a (roommate/girlfriend/etc.) also wishes to edit, the two of them should refrain from agreeing with one another or reverting on the same articles. Seraphimblade Talk to me 09:55, 29 March 2007 (UTC) reply
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Crop circle: Martinphi makes three reverts: 18:53, 11 March 2007 20:59, 11 March 2007 21:41, 11 March 2007. Seven minutes after Martin's third revert (and Myriam's first edit in hours), Myriam arrives, first edit ever to the article 21:49, 11 March 2007, removes text 21:52, 11 March 2007 that had been previously fact tagged by Martin 17:02, 7 February 2007, then after a few intermediate edits, made an edit to a wording similar to the version Martinphi had previously reverting to 00:14, 12 March 2007, inserting both "many" and an attribution for the second part of the sentence.
Remote viewing: Martinphi edits the intro 01:12, 6 March 2007, twice reverts to that version 16:47, 10 March 2007 19:10, 10 March 2007 (which had been reverted by two different editors). Myriam does the next revert to Martinphi's version 15:23, 11 March 2007 and later removes "purported" 21:47, 11 March 2007, as Martinphi has done a number of times at Psychic for similar reasons 16:33, 9 March 2007 16:51, 10 March 2007.
Psychic: Martinphi has made many edits taking out phrases such as "purported", "profess to be" etc for example 20:30, 2 March 2007 with the edit summary (" 'psychic' doesn't mean people who say they are psychic- it only means people who are psychic. If they aren't when they claim to be, they aren't psychic.") also 15:36, 3 March 2007, 20:50, 3 March 2007. Then, Martinphi reverted the inclusion of the disputed nature in the definition 15:28, 4 March 2007, edit summary: "(Let's leave the sentence concerning the use of the word as a noun seperate from whether or not the phenomena exists. One topic per sentence)"
Similar patterns at Electronic Voice Phenomenon and talk page, I can add diffs if there is interest.
Here's the diffs only version of potential 3RR reverts (from Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Martinphi)
Crop circle: Martinphi reverts:
Myriam Tobias revert: 00:14, 12 March 2007
Myriam Tobias has edited a total of ten pages by my count (plus talk pages for those articles) since the account was created on March 5, and every single one is a page Martinphi has also edited. Many of these are pages on which Martinphi is involved in content disputes and has approached or exceeded 3RR. His edits and talk page comments consistently agree with Martinphi's, and he often appears within minutes of Martin's edits to back him up, often only when Martin has made three reverts or when it is pointed out that a majority of editors disagree with him. The editing patterns and online appearances are just too improbable to be coincidence (particularly when those ten pages include obscure ones like Ganzfeld experiment and Odic force). The use of edit summaries and reversions seems to indicate an experienced wiki user as opposed to a new editor who has only been here about a week.
It appears that this sockpuppet is being used to bolster "consensus" and avoid 3RR. While it's possible that it isn't a sockpuppet, if it isn't it seems almost certainly to be a meatpuppet, which should also be looked into by admins. -- Milo H Minderbinder 14:10, 12 March 2007 (UTC) reply
Checkuser confirmed relation of accounts, Myriam Tobias blocked. Martinphi is warned that if a (roommate/girlfriend/etc.) also wishes to edit, the two of them should refrain from agreeing with one another or reverting on the same articles. Seraphimblade Talk to me 09:55, 29 March 2007 (UTC) reply