User talk:Jim odowell 2

April 2012

Wikipedia has a process for dealing with suspected sockpuppets. It isn't a "witch hunt", it's called CheckUser. Any CU that comes up as 'likely' or 'confirmed' is a near certainty to be the same person as the account being checked against. Given the circumstances, it was felt that a CU was justifiable to check agains the previous lion-pushing socks (who, by the way, had 31 accounts in the same group, including some with usernames that were personal attacks against other users, so they were hardly "just trying to improve the article"). The CU came up "Likely" that you were the same as the User:Catcreekcitycouncil sockfarm, and based on that and the behavioral evidence (appearing promptly after account creation on a sock-magnet article, pushing the same subject as them (aka, the duck test)), you were blocked. Now, if you are truthfully not the same person as the previous sockfarmers, then the way you get unblocked is to appeal your block at your main account, and explaining why you appear to be the same person but are actually not - setting up sockpuppets/additional accounts of your own is block evasion, and that is looked at extremely dimly by the Wikipedia community. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 05:30, 26 April 2012 (UTC)