Knowledge:Requests for arbitration/Giovanni33/Evidence

5006:

log in in order to post an edit one has already composed off line, then its only a matter of being online for a minute or two. That is not expensive. :) The fact that you say you know this been done before with others (not just a theoretical possibility) greatly undermines your whole "geographical area" argument. If I were the puppet master, and I knew I could create a puppet from ANYWHERE, why would I create several only 30 miles from my area, and only then create one far away? "Because it's expensive" is not convincing at all. Ultramarine's theory that I'm driving to different locations in the Bay Area is a more logically consistent argument for why they are all near me, if we are to use geographical evidence as an important link to my account. But then, of course, the problem is that I've edited at the same time as they have, so that can't work. No, the true reason is that these are other people, or at least one other person, and its NOT me. That is the most logical explanation for the facts. I use RCN Cable to connect to the internet, and the only other computer I use is this one, at work. I do not believe that my ISP has any dial-out abilities that I can use, and if they did, its not with Paetec.

4112:. But he says that if “one compares the timing of a heavy editor undisputably not G33, like Ultramarine, to the above contributions” its not the same: “Periods of intense editing activity by these accounts usually abut each other very closely, but never overlap - except for two outliers in which they overlay very closely (said arse-covering).” His analysis of Ultramarine confesses some very similar findings only that there are more outliers. The problem with this is that one can simply turn up the “exception” allowance, fine-tunning adjustment for greater, “arse-covering,” no? The problem is that it doesn’t match neatly. There is an arbitrary selection and explanation of evidence to make it fit a preconceived conclusion, which could equally be stretched to fit any other heavy editor plus or minus how much “adjustments” we allow that don’t fit the theory. Of course, its always could be true that two events occurring at the same time that have no simple relationship to each other besides the fact that they are occurring roughly around the same time. 4136:) from 2pm to 4:30 pm. Since Rafaelfingers appears to have edited during this same time, Merzbow's theory that I'm editing from multiple ISP's, can be disproved. I know Arbcom has does not typically accept the kind of evidence that real courts would, but it’s an idea. I have my ticket still. It also occurred to me that since these other editors apparently are all from the bay area, a special wiki-meet could be proposed, and actually happen, in theory. Since I am innocent here I am willing to work with the committee through a neutral admin to prove my innocence. Perhaps though a Skype conference? I’ve met admins here on wiki-meets, and they might be willing to look into this first hand, if all parties are amiable. My point is that I have nothing to hide and I believe with enough investigation the truth will come out, and it does us no harm to look at possibilities for uncovering the truth. I’m willing to put in the effort and do the leg-work. 5769:

pages" would be amusing were it not for the relative seriousness of an ArbCom. 800 pages is a lot, especially considering that no one, last time I checked, is required to edit a certain number of pages in order to be a Wikipedian. Most editors who have much higher unique page counts (including myself) engage in some kind of vandal fighting or other repetitive activity the likes of which Giovanni does only rarely. Apparently he did some anti-vandal work awhile ago, but there's a good chance he did that because I suggested it to him in an e-mail—not as part of some nefarious plot "to drive up his count and article diversity" (the bad faith in that assumption is rather staggering), but rather because he had recently been unblocked by Jehochman and I told him it would be a good idea to cool off, move away from the controversial article for awhile, and do some non-controversial stuff like reverting vandalism.

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don't agree with Giovanni just because it is Giovanni either. I don't know the guy. I agree with many other editors who also agree with each other. There are at least ten other editors, only one who is Giovanni. I find it crazy that Giovanni is being singled out and just because I also happen to live in the San Francisco area that other left editors interested in the same articles as him? That makes sense. This is San Francisco/Berkeley we are talking about. What is the big surprise? Also, there are lots of editors who together edit in the same article subjects and are part of the same arguments -- not only Giovanni. So big deal. I do feel sorry if my editing from different IP's about these issues got Giovanni in trouble. That is why I'm saying my peace here. Out.

6238:). Specifically, G33 said: "I think a cool down period is a good idea. Now having said that, I think Dance with the Devil is generally a good editor so maybe just a warning would be best. Blocks are not meant to be punitive. He seems to acknowledge that he needed to cool down, and that is good enough for me.:)" If this were a newly minted G33 sock, why would he immediately disagree with its effort to get a user blocked for 3RR? It could have been a set up to later absolve him of socking, but if that were the case, why on earth would he not would have mentioned it by now? (I stumbled across this completely on my own and apparently no one else noticed it.) The user from the "Allegations" article most likely to have antipathy toward Dance With The Devil is SPTS. 4998:

distance for the other accounts? If I had such an easily ability to just dial in from anywhere, why do you place such a great significance to the "30 miles" geographical distance from me (or for that matter from yourself, since you are also in the SF Bay Area)? It seems you want to have it both ways. Strangely, you discount that it could be any other editors also dialing in long distance. Because then the question of geography becomes moot, no? Why is that not possible for someone to do that, even internationally? Again, you seem to know more about these technical aspects than I do, but I have problems with unsupported claims that seem not to be true, and one-sided reasoning.

4914:. Why is it, I wonder, that only the editors who oppose my arguments about article content, are the ones advocating for me being banned? They all want the US Terrorism article deleted or turned into a stub. They all share a personal political POV on the issue that rejects the conceptual framework the articles discusses. WP editors should be above such petty power games. This is what disturbs me the most. Again, this could all be coincidence so I make no accusations but the appearance alone is enough to turn my stomach. It is antithetical to a very basic WP ethos, and I regard it as the biggest possible violation of what the project is about. 4923:

returned to any such behaviors since. I can see that he wants to see me retried for transgressions dating from when I first joined WP in 2006 that have already been resolved some two years ago, but I don't think this is the basis of this arbcom case. It does say something about this case, indirectly, though. Namely that except this ancient stuff of 2 years ago where I already admitted to wrong doings, but which the community has forgiven so it should be moot and irrelevant, there is not much substance to the new allegations. Indeed the new allegations are largely prejudice from this past, and that is, I think, quite unfair.

5654:

contributions are still very limited to a core set of articles. Half of his contributions are to 4 articles. That's not bad faith, it's an easily verifiable fact. I don't characterize your support of Giovanni33 as enabling sockpuppet trolls so please don't characterize my edits as being in bad faith or not assuming good faith or in any manner that is ad hominem. Giovanni33's single purpose is to push his POV into a small set of articles. That is the exact definition of a SPA if it is to have any meaning. I suspect that edits with other accounts to push his POV into other small sets of articles. --

5100:

appears to be a sleeper, making a 3RR report and then disappearing for a month before launching into the afore-mentioned conflicts. His removal of my comments from his talk page, which were merely friendly warnings or statements of confusion at his hostility, demonstrates that he is a returning user. He claims that he is a long-time IP editor, yet he has not indicated what caused him to have such hostility towards me. I rarely get involved with IP editors, unless they are vandalising pages. So it is clear he had a set identity, as those are the people that I normally engage with. I have

6794:." Now, it's technically possible to believe that this DrGabriela account happens to edit the article in which SPTS was primarily interested, happens to share SPTS's antipathy to Ultramarine, happens to be interested in leftist Filipino movements, and happens to have a name that is identical to a group which is/was part of a large, leftist coalition in the Philippines whose Wiki article has been edited by SPTS—possible but I don't buy it. This account is either someone SPTS knows or that user somehow evaded Checkuser. I didn't look for more evidence beyond this but certainly could. 3858:), again something not common with G33 or the socks. SPTS also never seems to confuse "its/it's", "let's/lets", a key characteristic of the other accounts. I find his grammar in general to be more precise, and his writing more to the point. Re-iterating the personal attacks point, SPTS is basically a grouch who likes to lash out. G33 and the socks, at their worst, sounds like a peeved schoolmarm, and at their best, are prone to severe over-enthusiasm (e.g. the shared "looks very good!" phrase between G33 and DG, in reference to material about 5207:

dictionary and I probably did look up something to make sure I was right. I do no remember copying anything. But I always am looking up something in a medical reference and you will find that many put the issue in a very similar way. We almost have it memorized. I will let you in on a secret: we doctors feel naked without our medical reference books. We all use our fat PDF's as our memory is just like anyone else's. It's no different than a lawyer looking up a law. I happen use an electronic device that is popular with many of collegues.

5218:

lugar?Ako ay nakatira sa Hayward,kung kaya masama ang aking kalooban sa mga akusasyon.Hindi ako eksperto sa patakaran ng WP tungkol sa sock puppets subalit hindi ko iniisip na ito ay magbibigay ng hindi magandang alegasyon o pagdududa laban kay Giovanni33,ako ay nabigla ng aking malaman na mayroon palang patakaran ang WP na mgabigay ng kundisyon sa bilang ng talaan ng WP sa parehong lugar.Ang WP ay sikat o popular na lugar para sa pagbibigay ng kontribusyon o ng bagong kaalaman at sa aking pagkakaalam ito ay bukas para sa lahat.

5773:

others might not know this, but he, John Smith's and I worked together - with some difficulty! - to improve an article on a contemporary China book, even though John and Gio were facing off in an ArbCom at the time). He also edits articles which are critical of US foreign policy, which seems to have been his primary interest for awhile now. I run across excellent Wikipedians all the time who only edit articles about movies, or about roads, or about heavy metal bands, or about hurricanes. That does not make them

3315:. In fact, at the time I almost responded to SGR there, pointing out the obviously stolen edit summary (which is just a couple pages into my edit history), but assumed that G33/SGR couldn't have been so naive to think that this sort of windup would fly as ArbCom evidence purported to disprove the utility of linguistic analysis. G33 perhaps could have played this as a joke had made that post with the G33 account, but by doing it with SGR and presenting it as evidence with G33, he can't even say that. 1266:

Giovanni33 is willing to go to considerable lengths regarding his sock puppetry as shown by the varied methods used by his previous sock puppet farm and and now attempts to present meat puppets in a meeting. There have already been several strange attempts to falsify and obscure the evidence like the faked evidence of sock puppetry by Merzbow presented by Giovanni33 and the faked attempts to indicate medical knowledge by DrGabriela shown to merely be quotes from dictionaries as described elsewhere.

5873:) from 2pm to 4:30 pm. Since Rafael appears to have edited during this same time, Merzbow's theory that I'm editing from multiple ISP's, can be disproved. I know Arbcom has does not typically accept the kind of evidence that real courts would, but its an idea. It also occurred to me that since these other editors apparently are all from the bay area, a special wiki-meet could be proposed, and actually happen, in theory. I suppose, then the theory would simply be changed to one of meat puppets. 5922:

certain time or by some technical means (I have no idea if this is possible or not). I don't have an explanation at this point for why the SGR, RF, and DG accounts happen to be in Northern California not far from G33 other than "coincidence." That is, however, the weakest part of the evidence I will present and of course there are any number of plausible explanations for that coincidence. With that I'll discuss the SPTS account and then the other three accounts in relation to that one.

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idea I attended a play at that time. He seemed to focus on the fact that he was not editing with his wireless device then. In any case, this is moot, but it does illustrate something I've tried to show: your evidence is predicated on stretching selective facts in a very convoluted, conspiratorial manner, to make anything fit your preconceived theories. Instead, there is aways a good-faith alternative explanation which I've tried to show, and which happens to be the truth.

3924:, but could not have brought the socks into action due to his being blocked for 3RR because the 3RR report was filed after SGR and RF had already started editing." I don't see a point here. RF edited the day before, SG during that day. I see no need for there to necessarily be a relationship to a block of G33. There are plenty of other articles in which G33 and the socks reverted back and forth to each other when G33 wasn't blocked. The point is the accounts 4816:

all embrace, which should allow me to continue to be a member in good standing. The unblocking admin himself said he had too many doubts. He said that several admins talked to him who were familiar with my editing style, who did not believe I was socking again. I think those admins should be consulted with for their insight. Since I’m innocent I have nothing to fear and I want to fully cooperate as is deemed necessary to clear my name of these suspicions.

5187:

do resent the charge. I'm no expert on WP policies about sock puppets but I don't give it too much thought as it appears to be a partisan-based allegation that has spear-headed this effort against Giovanni33. I would be quite astonished to find out that there is a Knowledge policy that stipulates an x number of accounts within a geographical area. Knowledge is a very popular venue. My understanding is that its open to contributions from everyone.

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wish she were still with us. I regret many unkind things I did and said at that time. Flo will remember that. But instead of creating a new un-tattered account that many advised that I do, I stuck with my original because I was told I’d be given a “tabula rasa”, a clean slate to start over. I ask that the slate indeed be wiped clean as much as possible in keeping with this; that these past puppetry violations from years ago accorded weight today.

5044:

the same area as Giovanni. It may have many people living there, but the topics that Giovanni edits are rather much niche ones. One must consider how many people are likely to be aware of these topics and have an interest in them so much like his own that they would be editing on Knowledge and revert to versions he endorses. I do not consider it likely that many people in the geographical area in question would fit this sort of behaviour.

35: 5828:(it's worth noting that he never mentioned this e-mail later, which would have been the smart thing to do if it was part of an elaborate set up), though I'm not naive to the point of thinking it's impossible. If one takes this e-mail (which I had forgotten about until Merzbow brought his evidence) as being truthful, then it would suggest that Giovanni and Rafaelsfingers are not the same person. At the least it might give one pause. 66:; posting evidence longer than 1000 words will not help you make your point. Over-long evidence that is not exceptionally easy to understand (like tables) will be trimmed to size or, in extreme cases, simply removed by the Clerks without warning - this could result in your important points being lost, so don't let it happen. Stay focused on the issues raised in the initial statements and on diffs which illustrate relevant behavior. 5787:

time into it, whatever detractors might think of his efforts—it's worthwhile to point out something good. While editing on these controversial pages, he clearly places a premium on discussion—an aspect of editing upon which many Wikipedians could improve. I don't always agree with what Giovanni says or how he says it, but I certainly appreciate his willingness to engage with other editors including those with whom he disagrees. --

5136:

he got blocked. The alleged puppets in this case do not correspond to the IP of any editors we know of - much more advanced sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry is thus involved. Thus I believe another user is behind the puppets, and Giovanni's knowledge of the checkuser process (having been involved with it many times in the past) would suggest he more than anyone would take pains not be directly traced back to his main editing IP.

6804:

one another is a bit more revealing. The evidence suggests that it is extremely likely that DrGabriela is connected to Stone put to Sky and fairly if not very likely that Supergreenred and Rafaelsfingers are. I don't know the nature of the connections if they in fact exist, and I don't know why all of these IP's are in Northern California, however there is some material here that cannot be ignored. At the

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says, “they overlap by a few minutes.” Even so, that would be suspicious. But then we find he also lists exceptions that don’t match up to this theory at all, and are off by hours. However, other than these very significant facts, he concludes, “in general, they slot neatly and usually tightly between each other.” He explains the overlapping incidents as me trying to cover my tracks on purpose.

4932:

nefarious conspiratorial plot. Since its a trivial oversight that would have been easily noticed, it's a bit silly to think that I would have planned it. :) Sometimes the simpler explanation is true. It might not be as interesting, but such is what happened. At least you saved me time scanning my ticket, uploading it to a site, and linking it here because as BTP says, now it's moot.

1222: 1216: 4949:

real-time, showing them logging-in, etc. I want the proof to be solid and convincing and am hoping to have their cooperation. Merzbow, I know it's basic human psychology to become attached to ones pet theory, but it will be proved to have been in error in this case. I hope you will be able to admit making an honest mistake yourself when this is all over.

4902:

measurements have no meaning to me. If they should then I will listen and broaden my field of editing -- if that is something I should be doing. If anything the fact I listened to BTP and started doing vandal fighting shows I'm quite open to suggestions from helpful admins. I'm open for guidance and want to continue to contribute and help the project.

4812:

if SuperGreenRed, which I would agree is does seem to be an impersonator, and under policy can be assumed to be connected to me by behavior—even if I have no control over it. I presented this evidence in my opening statement before. Ultra and Merz have repeated things here, but it's a waste of space. But I may add it here later, if it would help me.

4990:

anything related to "starnetinc.com" nor it being only a dial-up provider. Lastly, it does not appear to be "obscure' at all. From their site: "We currently have over 2,600+ access locations throughout North America...a customer base of approx. If the company were really so obscure as you claim, why do we have an article on it in wikipedia? See

1228: 5899:(DG) are operating as single-purpose accounts which are controlled as meat or sockpuppets. Because of the IP addresses (Northern California) it has been assumed that these accounts were controlled by Giovanni33 (G33) and linguistic and edit-pattern evidence has been presented which suggests that that scenario is plausible if not likely ( 1203:, a SPA used to avoid 3RR and revert to Giovanni33' version in the articles he was interested in then. MikaM as is the case now was not an obvious sock puppet based on IP alone and at least once edited from San Jose instead of San Francisco showing the considerable efforts Giovanni33 makes to hide his sock puppetry. 2473:). That won't work because if one compares the timing of a heavy editor undisputably not G33, like Ultramarine, to the above contributions, one sees a much more random overlap of time periods - which is what one would expect. For example, here is how Ultra's edits compare on a selection of days taken from above: 5812:

time). I've included the time and date stamp but not the e-mail addresses (obviously) and have only included the relevant portions of the e-mail which are unedited (if ArbCom wants to verify the veracity of this I can pass the full original along to a member of the committee, but I assure you this is accurate).

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a cable connection, so I don’t need a DSL as well. I don’ t have an i-Phone, either. I’m sure that the user-check information will show these characteristics. I edit only from my home and at work using the same account. I welcome an admin into my home for an inspection of my technical set up. All are welcome.

4121:

connection; or Remote Desktop into a work computer. With what I personally have, I could roleplay accounts from three different ISPs: one from my iPhone, one from cable, one from connecting through my work machine. But they would all be noted as coming from the same geographic area, as all these accounts do.”

5149:

times within 24 hours as if it was a right. Since the arbitration case he has frequently reverted once a week on a number of articles, then once the next week and so on. If he is allowed to continue in this way, he will almost certainly go back to edit-warring much more regularly when his parole expires.

3255: 6536:, to the presidency. But Sandino is of course primarily known for his rebellion against US forces in Nicaragua and, like Zelaya, his generally anti-imperialist stance. I’m not positive, but I don’t believe G33 has edited much or at all on Nicaragua. The connection between RF and SPTS here is obvious. 6675:

Of these three accounts this one, the most professional sounding from the user name, has been the most active over a range of articles. Unlike with the other accounts, I will not review every substantive article space edit aside from those on "Allegations." Merzbow has already discussed the medical

5680:", claiming innocence, defending Giovanni33's past transgressions because htey were more than 6 months old, offering to prove his identity, and hoping he doesn't have to resort to more drastic action. The similarities are frightening considering this was written two years ago. Some selected quotes: 5210:

About myself, yes I am a Dr., with a medical degree. Even though this is from the Phillipines, where I am from, I dare say it's far beyond high-school biology. I am also an activist and founded a charitable human rights organzation for poor children. My real name is not Gabriela but like the others I

5161:

while he was blocked, saying that he had "good contacts in the media". It is obvious that he was threatening to try to kick up a media storm about his blocking if he did not get his way - otherwise why mention it? An honest editor would have faith in the system to sort out a misunderstanding. Someone

5135:

I do not find BigTimePeace's suggestions that the puppetmaster may be Stoneputtosky credible. Stone was a very amateur puppetmaster who was directly linked to his puppet accounts. If he knew how to edit Knowledge and fool it into thinking he was thousands of miles away, he would have done that before

5099:

Supergreenred has claimed that he was on holiday so could not contest the block then. Yet he continued editing right up until he was blocked - he was blocked a few hours after his last edit on 15th April. So we are to believe that he was edit-warring right before going on vacation? Supergreenred also

4905:

I have a very wide range of interests but like to stick to working on a problem until its substantially fixed/improved. For example, this can be seen with other controversial article topic ranges such as Christianity articles, the Hitler/Fascist/articles, and the Mao/Chinese history related articles.

4901:

I did it because I wanted to help the project and was following advice by an admin (BigTimePeace confirms this below), who suggested I try it. So, I did. With DHewyard, no good deed goes unpunished. The fact is I had no conscious desire to try to artificially affect any statistical measurements. Such

4566:

Merzbow shows many examples of these accounts using “lets” and “its” without the apostrophe. But when I looked for counter examples, not only did I find them, but I found these errors to be very common. I will list them out here as I did the others above, if asked to, although I think it’s a waste of

4478:

My illustration above is particularly true when only one example of my using this phrase is matched up with only one example by another editor and a connection is purported to be established as a result. That's very weak, but again, without a systematic survey and larger pool, it's almost meaningless

4124:

I grant this may be technically possible, although I have some doubts about it. Perhaps an IT person can comment about it. It’s my understanding that a Remote Desktop into the office would not hide one’s home IP as that is still uses the home internet IP to connect to the remote work machine. I have

4066:

I will focus my evidence to address parts that are most relevant. There is much that has been presented by Ultramarine that less relevance. However, if there are serious and relevant elements that I’ve skipped over but need to be addressed, I’d be more than happy to respond to them as well. I may add

3870:

The only article that the socks and SPTS ever edited together was "Allegations..." Aside from that, BTP lists a couple of tenuous connections via a couple edits on articles of a shared subject matter, and a few cases of reverting Ultra, but that's it. The one other article aside from "Allegations..."

1252:

This service localizes 69.107.7.138 to Castro Valley, California. Maybe Giovanni33 did not state which service he used because the map from this service shows that Castro Valley is closer to San Fransisco than San Jose. IP localization is not 100% accurate but these services agree on the same general

1106:

IPs that have edited Allegations of state terrorism by the United States from the start of February 2008 and until this RfA. A period when I have continuously edited and followed the development and edits made to the article. As shown the IPs above are not some selectively selected for resemblance to

933:

IP is not from San Francisco but from Palo Alto, California. But Giovanni33 is known to previously have moved away from San Francisco to avoid detection. See "Older accounts, IPs, and second chance" below. This edit to User talk:Bigtimepeace where 69.36.228.50 accepts a proposal made to Giovanni33 by

183:

A situation where Knowledge cannot act if checkuser does not show identical internet providers seems very harmful. That would mean that users could avoid all restrictions simply by using different providers. Especially if using wireless providers, as in this case, which are difficult to locate. Much

5186:

For the record, I only know Giovanni33 from his edits on some of the terrorism articles and that I generally agree with him. I hope that clears the matter up for the record. I'm not sure how this "clear ups" the doubts as I understand we live in the same area? I live in Hayward. I wish to say that I

5177:

You have alleged one suspected puppet is actually linked to another user. Yet I do not see any comment on Giovanni's edit-warring or the other suspected puppets. Does this mean you concede the points made, or that you cannot find any other circumstantial evidence to link them to others/cannot excuse

5051:

displays classic sleeper behaviour. The account was created on 20th July 2007 and then made a number of edits on that day. Apart from one on 23rd July, there were no more edits until pushing on for a year later the account came back on 18th April 2008 to help out Giovanni on a number of articles. To

5043:

Ultramarine and Mezbrow have provided detailed and convincing evidence that Giovanni33 has continued to use sockpuppetry, meatpuppetry or indeed both to bypass his editing restrictions. Although I will not repeat most of what they have indicated, it is strange that so many editors are appearing from

5005:

I also note that Merbow appears to also concede that it is possible, despite his earlier implication that it wasn't, for a user to "dial-out" from anywhere to anywhere. The only incentive not to do so is one of it "being expensive." Actually long distance is not expensive and if all one has to do is

4982:

I will also note that during this latest activities of these alleged puppets on the article, he leaves out the fact that I was editing another article at exactly the same time (about Chile). In fact when I saw what was going on over at the Allegations page, I went over there and had an edit conflict

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evidence (however cherry picked they are), instead of the other way around, making it look like he is faking the other way. By his own logic, since this edit was made after Merzbow presented his its vs it's point, its makes no sense for SRG to then make this obvious edit where Merzbow jumps in right

4827:

This is not complete but I believe I can refute the evidence above. I note that all the evidence against me above only makes sense under the theory that I am and these other accounts are one and the same. Hence, the time-line information, and linguistic analysis, alleging this. I also note that both

4811:

Lastly, when we look at my edits vs these alleged puppets edits, we see while they share a similar POV on many articles, they also edit on their own areas of interest which I do not share. Likewise, I edit in areas they do not share. So even their editing behavior does not mirror mine. The exception

4710:

For fun, here is an alternate theory, using the existing evidence I can put together based on cherry picking things I can also raise eye brows. I only do this to illustrate the flawed method being employed. It's an example of how tricky this matter is, and I think it adds to reasonable doubt of this

4229:

The results of this experiment show that most editors use it the way I use, in its open form, without hyphens. This fact renders its use as evidence against me rather impotent. Yes, I have used it in this form---along with Merzbow, and most other editors. So to pick out an example where I share this

4104:

Merzbow presents time-line evidence that alleges to show “neatly disjointed” editing activity. This would make sense if I had to drive an hour to San Jose back and forth. They would all have to be disjointed. However, it turns out that Merzbow admits that they aren’t really disjointed, because as he

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4. It is alleged that there is much linguistic evidence below that I have again resorted to using socket-puppets out of frustration with the 1RR parole. This is a serious charge, and it should not be made lightly. I hope to show that a critical examination of the evidence against me does not satisfy

3831:

The biggest stumbling block is, of course, that SPTS has always edited from Taiwan, as far as we've been told by CheckUser. The suspected accounts, and G33, edit all from a 30-mile radius in Northern California. Now it is one thing to suspect that somebody in the US is dialing long-distance to sock;

3427:

And it should be noted that a normal editor who edited from 7:25 PM to 7:44 PM local time would probably have responded to the claim of "Just so everyone is clear, these edits here... from 2:25 to 2:45 were made from your home connection" with a clarification, not "that is correct", which is what RF

3328:

short edit histories, would share so many similarly idiosyncratic constructions, in the face of far more frequently used alternatives (to the tune of usually 2-6 hits vs hundreds). He also has no response to the tone/style examples (indistinguishable), and the POV and SPA evidence (new accounts with

3224:

DrGabriela has made a bunch of edits to medical-related articles. At least one editor has suggested they could mean that this account is not G33, because G33 does not edit such articles. After a bit of investigation, I found that these edits are obvious smokescreens. They are either simple additions

1304:

In regards to the editing with a wireless device, this is fishing very deep for evidence. I have used my cell to access Knowledge, because, simply, my work is very restrictive when it comes to accessing non work related web pages. That is why I use my wireless device at work. Btw, there is good news

1226:

AnnH made this comment on the first Checkuser which still applies "All in all, there is a very disturbing pattern of new users with no prior history at Knowledge arriving and coming to all the pages he edits, agreeing with him on the talk page, reverting to his version, claiming consensus where none

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articles or talk pages at approximately the same time, especially if there are interleaving edits, are likely to be from unrelated users.) An incomplete analysis of editing times shows some instances of near overlap. To save time I will not cite the diffs. You will need to check the contribution

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The pattern of consecutive days on which sockpuppets edit, followed by consecutive days without sockpuppet edits and in some cases without any edits, seems to be consistent with a single user who plays the sockpuppet game on some days and decides to edit on his main account or not to edit at all on

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I must say this is one of the most obvious cases of sockpuppetry I have ever seen come before Arbcom. All of the users show a shocking propensity to know policy and engage in wikilawyering, edit similar pages dealing almost exclusively with left-wing activism, edit pages and back each other up, use

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For what it's worth, I e-mailed SPTS directly before writing this up and asked about it. That editor denied it, said that the accounts were probably controlled by me (an outlandish explanation which I cheerfully welcome anyone to investigate), said that they were extremely angry at Knowledge and me

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38 times and its talk page 112 times, his fourth and second highest totals respectively. For those unfamiliar with the broad outlines of Nicaraguan history, Zelaya was a notably anti-imperialist/anti-US president and leader of Nicaragua’s “Liberal” faction (modern meanings should not be applied to

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on the 13th for 72 hours? He was, but not until 19:54 UTC. SGR, RF, and SPTS started editing the "Allegations" article at 08:05, 00:00, and 07:50 UTC respectively. G33 was editing the article at the same time as well, but could not have brought the socks into action due to his being blocked for 3RR

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he was at the play (which was not in fact correct, Giovanni says he was not translating UTC time to Pacific time and thus got the time - and actually date - wrong, Rafaelsfingers had actually probably edited shortly before Giovanni e-mailed me) and that this might be a way to prove they are not the

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This is in direct response to evidence presented by DHeyward, which I cannot in good conscience let go unanswered. That user's reading of Giovanni33's contribution history via wannabe kate takes assumptions of bad faith to new heights. DHeyward's contention that Giovanni had only edited "800 unique

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edits per page is 11.42. This is very high compared to most diverse users that have a large number of edits. 800 unique pages also seem rather low compared to other editors. 4 articles and their talk pages account for 3500 edits. Of those 3500 edits, 2800 are article talk page edits and 700 are

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For whatever it's worth, I thought I should make my statement. As hard as it is for some people (apparently) to believe let me say it very clear: I am really a separate, thinking, human being from San Francisco and I identify myself as a leftist, an anarchist specifically (anarcho-communist). I

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I am almost ammused by the evidence I read here that stikes me as quite desperate. I am sorry if I did properly provide a reference some of my edits on some medical articles I looked up for pleasure. I looked at many articles and I was overall impressed with the quality I found. I do have a medical

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Giovanni33 continues to edit-war, despite his 1RR a week parole. He has been blocked twice, but broken it many other times - he has been let off either because he self-reverted (normally only after being reported) or pleaded for leniency. His parole was designed to get him to seek consensus for his

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is indicative of the kind of accusations that are really unfounded and completely inappropriate. An Admin BigtimePeace, has reminded me on my talk page that I in fact replied to an e-mail that day right after attending the play in question, mentioning it. This will be evidence added to counter your

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Notice it takes place after Merzbow list's his evidence, supporting one of his major claim: that I frequently mistakenly use its vs it's. Yet, afterwards we see Supergreenred make exactly this error in an obvious way on an article that Merzbow frequents, and it just so happens that Merzbow make the

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Merzbow and I both agree with each other it seems. Regarding the cherry-picking I was able to find from a few edits doing a search, (not to accuse anyone but to show the weakness of the method), he says that SuperGreenRed must be an impersonator. Bravo! We agree. That Supergreenred has impersonated

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Moreover, Rafaelfingers has also stated willingness to disclose real world information that will prove he is a real, separate, person. If and when he does, the evidence above must be discarded. Instead a theory of meat-puppetry is the only thing that is left, but this can not be assumed given quite

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I also point out the flaw of doing a google search and using site Knowledge.org, as it will not net all the results on Knowledge. To gauge a common typo, a search on talk pages only is required as article content would be vetted for typos. Of course, the typos presented are extremely common as I've

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It’s claimed that, “Giovanni33 has a peculiar allergy to hyphenating compound words that should be hyphenated.” What stands out is not a comprehensive sample that shows frequency of this particular use, but rather just two example to match one account with the other. Well that is very easy to do. I

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There is on exception, though: “to Paint a POV Picture.” Unlike the rest, this is a strong piece of evidence of a unique fingerprint. So either they are the same person, or one copied the other. I would like RafaelFingers to explain that since SuperGreenRed said it first, followed by Rafealfingers.

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The evidence is based on, for example, that I “frequently misspells words, and will usually spell "it's" as "its" and "let's" as "lets", that I do not hyphenate compound words that need them, and particular phrases, etc. All of this evidence, I will show is very weak when one tries to find evidence

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article connection, this clearly reveals where DrGabriela's name comes from, but the connection to SPTS is slim; one edit to a linked article and the adding of one Philippines section to another, along with edits to an article on a Philippine communist leader. A Filipina identity for a sock/meat is

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So that leaves us with two possibilities: he is, in fact, now physically present in the Bay Area, or he is controlling meats. There is no evidence of any kind to suggest he is or has ever been in the Bay Area, and this makes the second theory - that a very angry guy like SPTS has suddenly developed

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Giovanni33's writing style is unique, and evident in all of these accounts. He is usually quite polite, and when ruffled gets huffily indignant; at worst, he's like a schoolmarm lecturing her charges on "NPOV" and "consensus". He is loquacious, and his grammar is slightly off-key, sometimes falling

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In response to the question of using the 'paint a POV' phrase. The only way I can explain how I came up with that expression, is how most of learn terminology and adopt it to express our own point of views. I can assure everyone, once again, I am not Giovanni. I simply heard that expression used by

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One of the weaknesses in this case has been to consider the above accounts and various IP edits as a whole, looking for any edit which would suggest that the accounts are connected to G33. This approach can be problematic, whereas as considering each account separate from (but also in relation to)

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I'll now consider SGR's "areas of interest." I am intentionally excluding the edits on the "Allegations" article (for now at least, I might take a look later) for this user and the other two below and I'll explain why. The edit warring there is generally between two competing versions of a certain

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was run on these accounts and SPTS. It came back unrelated, and this ended consideration of SPTS as the puppetmaster, though that was the initial thought. My argument here is that one or more of these accounts are either meat puppets of SPTS, or that user somehow evaded Checkuser by traveling at a

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Of his 9,200 some edits, over 4,200 of those are to article talk pages (nearly twice the number of edits to articles themselves). I think that's rather significant. In a case where basically only bad things are being said about Giovanni33—someone who clearly loves this project and has put a lot of

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This attitude is worrying, as it suggests that he is merely doing his best to keep within the letter of Knowledge regulations. Before his arbitration restriction he was notorious for dancing on the lines (as can be seen by the evidence from the last arbitration case on him), repeatedly reverting 3

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My plan now is co-ordinate some real-life activities with these other editors that will suffice as solid proof of the same thing, though. I'm thinking a video-conference with all welcome to join in and ask away. They can turn on their cams to their computer and see them typing, showing their IP in

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of the edits but rather about where the edits were made from. Rafaelsfingers replies "welcome, Giovanni. that is correct. that statement was made on my home computer." He is only answering where the edits were made from and says nothing about the time. Since he is not my sock, of course, he has no

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I have already admitted and apologized regarding the past. I have also reformed. It occurred years ago, so while he is technically correct since I've given up that behavior long ago, it's not relevant now. As its not relevant it stands as a logical fallacy; The relevant allegations pertain only to

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In conclusion, despite appearance, the truth is the truth and I hope it does set me free. I am willing to produce further evidence and do what it takes to have truth prevail. The doubts I raised do provide a reasonable application of the assumption of good faith, a cherished WP core policy that we

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2. My past puppets are displayed in this case. It is true that I engaged in this behavior a long time ago. I regret that. I apologize for it. And, I have never done it again. I would not let down the trust given to me by Musical Linguist, whom I now greatly respect for her kindness and empathy. I

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Also, BTP says that "It's far more telling that these accounts happened to leap into action within hours of SPTS coming back from a week off...", which is not correct. The suspected accounts were leaping into action quite happily during the time period SPTS took off editing then - 4/5-4/13. RF had

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Giovanni33 and Stone put to sky share the same view and as known sock puppeters have already shown that they are willing to use to deception. To further obscure the evidence it would be easy for them to simply email passwords of accounts/material to post to one another. This may have occurred even

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Bigtimepeace argues that the accounts have some similarities to sock puppeter Stone put to sky and thus could be his sock puppets. See Merzbow's reply below for why this very unlikely as compared to being Giovanni33's sock puppets. I will point out another possibility. Shared sock puppet accounts.

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Regarding the "Tables Turned?" section, I agree with Merzbow. Giovanni33's linguistic evidence based on one edit by Supergreenred after the RfA started is quite obviously faked. Such very glaring linguistic similarities between Supergreenred and Merzbow should have been present also before the RfA

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Giovanni clearly likes to edit on controversial topics, but there is nothing wrong with that (I do that myself). He is obviously very interested in religion and has edited several articles on that topic heavily. He also seems interested in Nazi Germany, as well as 20th century China (DHeyward and

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article edits. Of these 4 articles, 80% of his edits are discussions. That ratio is not maintained in the other articles he edits nor is the average edits per page anywhere close. Giovanni's association is with only a few articles, some random edits to related articles and then supported with

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The only problem is it's not new, but very old. I'll save everyone the trouble: That account is indeed my socket-puppet. He is a little behind in the times as this is from 2006, and I've long ago admitted to this, and have done so several times since. I've apologized and have reformed. I have not

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However, the problem with Merzobow interpretation is that he wants it both ways: its only impersonating him, but can not be doing so to me. It has to be a reflection of the account really being me. Why the double standard? He alleges that this negative evidence of making it look like him was done

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I notice he only makes a proclamation that it's clear I have socket-puppets, and lists the very old but real accounts where I was guilty of engaging in such behavior, but he lumps in the new ones, as well, as if they are all qualitatively the same. This is sloppy and false, and adds nothing new.

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This is said to be very rare. Merzbow states: “* Google shows only a half-dozen hits without the hyphen.” Then then gives one example where I use it in this fashion, along with one example from an IP user. Although Merzbow says they should be hyphenated, making it appear that it's actually a rare

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times this day before being blocked for 24 hours. It is relevant to note G33 and the SPAs' obsession with re-adding the longer version of the Japan section, a stance currently held only by one other editor, BernardL, as far as I can tell; everyone else appears to support the mid-length version at

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I stand by my linguistic analysis 100%. It's hard to take credence in G33's evidence when he makes amateur mistakes such as Google searching for phrases without the quotes, and not on Knowledge to boot. I also note that most of his attempted refutations do not discuss the phrases I presented, but

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None of the evidence presented and nothing from my recollection shows that any of the suspected sock puppets shares G33's most identifying linguistic/editing characteristic - the propensity to post lengthy multi-paragraph talk posts to almost every response with multiple return edits to the same

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This is as far as I want to go right now. If it will substantively help the Committee, I can continue the analysis for April. Overall, the overlaps in editing times are consistent with sockpuppetry. It is possible that there's a meatpuppet or two somewhere in the mix, but based on established

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So SPTS is a known sockpuppeteer who has used those socks on the "Allegations" article. There are some important points to make about SPTS's editing interests but those will be made with respect to the three accounts to be discussed below which is where the evidence becomes particularly telling.

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Obviously one could argue that Giovanni is lying in this e-mail and merely paving the way for some later shenanigans. But remember he was replying to an e-mail I sent him, not e-mailing me out of the blue with this story. Personally I find it unlikely that Giovanni would have misled me like this

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Giovanni was replying to an e-mail I sent him (likewise I can verify that with the committee if need be) giving him some advice on the newly opened ArbCom case (basically my advice was keep your comments short and don't attack other editors). His reply below came hours after he says he went to a

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Merzbow makes much of new accounts appearing to support "my version." This is misleading when we consider its not just "my version" but the version of the majority of editors, if not at least half. If it was something that only I wanted, then it would certainly be convincing, but this is not the

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But I do want to thank Merzbow for noticing the time shifts, which I honestly did not realize. What happened was that I came back from the play that night and saw his edits. I looked at the time and saw they corresponded to the time I was in the play. I'm sorry that you feel the need to assume a

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The theories employed by both Ulra and Merzbow while at odds with each other share similar methodological flaws, and logical fallacies. Stringing together selected material in such a small sample pool (in many cases a single example of each) of some rather common expressions, and then deriving a

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UTC. Now since we all know that G33 and RF are in the same time zone - that being PST - we know that those time stamps actually correspond to 7:25 PM to 7:44 PM on the 4th (subtract 7 hours). However, on RF's talk page G33 claims that RF edited from "2:25 to 2:45". Note how G33 flubs his math by

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This is partially in response to Merzbow's evidence section "G33's mysteriously time-shifted play" and also relates to Giovanni's response "Nothing mysterious about an honest mistake, Merzbow." The following is an excerpt of an e-mail sent to me by Giovanni on the evening of May 4th (California

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After examining Merzbow and Supergreenred's editing history, it appears that Supergreenred is more likely a sockpuppet of Merzbow, then Giovanni. Though the two users are extremely close in proximity, they have no shared edit period, which as Merzbow points out, a lack of shared editing time is

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You also seem to know a lot about IP's, and make some claims about the ISP and the accounts that I question. You state that the IP users are all using a dynamic on popsite.net/starnetinc.com, which you describe as "an obscure dial-up ISP." I looked up popsite.net for information and I don't see

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shows that popsite.net is owned by starnetinc.com. Olawe, of course, popped up after this case had swung into motion; it is expensive to dial long-distance, and thus a puppeteer would not do that unless one was already under suspicion of puppeting - yet another SF Bay Area puppet would not have

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easier to control the length of one's post than one's style. It is not wise to present detailed arguments with both the sock and the main on the same pages, because that makes it more obvious. G33 figured this out also - note the vast decrease in talk page posts by SGR, DrG, etc. after the case

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I am going to present a timeline analysis here for each day on which G33 and one of the other accounts both had substantial edits. With two exceptions (analyzed in-line), it turns out all time periods of substantial editing activity are disjoint from one another. Occasionally a single edit will

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This account has been less of a revert warrior and has a weaker connection to SPTS than the other two. It was, however, created during a gap in SPTS's contributions, shares very similar interests with that editor, and has followed/reverted Ultramarine. Like the SGR account, RF sprang into full

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if that term is to have any useful meaning. People edit what they are interested in, and there's nothing wrong with that. No one would even dream of calling Giovanni an SPA but for the fact that he edits in controversial areas that arouse the ire of others (and, without question, makes serious

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Merzbow provides a technical explanation that is at odds Ultramarines theory. He says, “The below pattern can be explained by one person at one location, using different browsers or a second computer to edit. And one can easily have a desktop on a Comcast cable connection and a laptop on a DSL

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noted that Rafaelsfingers was on a wireless device, and almost everyone in the Bay Area has cell phones that can do this (you can often route your computer's connection through it also). And one can easily have a desktop on a Comcast cable connection and a laptop on a DSL connection; or Remote

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Your characterization of my analysis as being in bad faith is insulting and I request that you refactor it. There was no assumption of bad faith, only an analysis of his contributions. Your allegation is an ad hominem attack of the evidence I provided. Giovanni does vandal fighting and his

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Si Giovanni33 ay kakilala ko dahil sa mga artikulo niya tungkol sa terorista at sa mga artikulo na ito ako ay sumasang ayon sa kanya.Umaasa ako na ang lahat ng ito ay magbibigay linaw,di ako sigurado kung paano maliliwanagan ang lahat subalit sa aking pag kakaalam kami ay nakatira sa parehong

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Related to this information is your claim that these accounts are from my geographical area. In fact you make a big deal about that. However, you contradict yourself when you talk about the Hawaiian editor, saying that I must be dialing in long-distance. Well then why would I not dial in long

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Nothing to indicate any real medical experience whatsoever. The facts are perfectly consistent with the theory that this is an editor with no specialist knowledge and a willingness to spend five minutes on Google to generate a couple of plausible-looking edits to some randomly chosen medical

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If this is the best merzbow can offer, i'd hate to read his other contributions. Time and location correlations is an unpersuasive argument (the timestamps are unsubstantial, in any case.) With this logic, think about how many innocent people would be banned for a new news worthy event in a

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As a professor with contacts in the media I am tempted to bring media attention to the problem, publishing my case. However, I’d like to first exhaust all possible venues within the Knowledge system, assuming an honest mistake has been made, despite the best worst intentions of some of its

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Another early-morning outlier, same analysis as above (i.e. start and end times close together). One deliberately-generated outlier for Super and another for Gabriela, on different days, showing the same M.O. Yup, looks like ass-covering. (And once again, reversion to form in the evening).

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started doing just this on the Allegations article on 26th May. This further indicates puppetry, as he made few edits in between being unblocked and the recent edit-war on the Allegations article. Furthermore, a good-faith user would have been glad of being unblocked and complied with the

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doing exactly this - dialing up 500-1000 miles away to sock). The identical ISP to SGR is the link that ties the new puppets to the old (aside from the copious behavioral evidence). Somebody is clearly controlling them - look at the frog-jumping below as one picks up after the previous is

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posting make additions and clarifications and inclusion of additional sentances and paragraphs to provide the spin that he wishes in the final response. None of the sockpuppets has been labeled with the same epitaph that WMC has been so frequently tossing at G33 - "likes to chatter". --

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response is not in any way suspicious, and I feel you are mis-characterizing it here. I said, "Just so everyone is clear, these edits here:Or from 2:25 to 2:45 were made from your home connection and not your a wireless device. Is that correct?" Notice that the question is not about the

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Indeed, providing such evidence undermines the entire case against me. This may involve some real world investiation, which I'm currently working on, but Rafaelfingers has confirmed he did indeed edit from his home computer - not a wireless device - at the same time I was attending this

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Desktop into a work computer. With what I personally have, I could roleplay accounts from three different ISPs: one from my iPhone, one from cable, one from connecting through my work machine. But they would all be noted as coming from the same geographic area, as all these accounts do.

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multiple Bay Area friends to meat for him - quite implausible. Whereas, in fact, we know G33 lives here, is well-connected (as he's said), and is a social guy. Even if you assume the suspected accounts are meats, it is inconceivable that they would more likely be SPTS's than G33's.

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And as for the technical points, RFCU confirms that RafaelFingers was on a wireless connection. G33 surely is aware that an edit from a Blackberry, iPhone, or other wireless device can, in fact, be made away from one's own computer. (And who edits from a cell phone anyways on their

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editing, rather than revert. Giovanni knows that he will definitely be permanently blocked if he repeatedly violates his parole, so he tries to keep within it visibly - either by not reverting more than once a week or hiding reversions by pretending they are more general edits.

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additional evidence and several new sock puppets as stated below now clearly demonstrates Giovanni33's abuse of sock puppets and his unfortunately rather successful long term systematic breaking of Knowledge policies. As such Giovanni33 and his methods are harmful to Knowledge.

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we see a rather interesting breakdown of Giovanni33's edits. He has over 9000 edits to 800 unique pages including 2300 mainspace edits and 4200 talk page edits. At first glance, this may seem rather diverse but the detailed stats paint a much different picture. First, the

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The irony here in that Merzbow is claiming that the account is being used to fake evidence to make it look like him, and not me. Ok, then what about this example? Faked evidence? Indeed! We have further agreement--even though the evidence being faked, in this case, supports

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SPTS is indefinitely blocked because of engaging in sockpuppetry on multiple occasions, specifically on the "Allegations" article (note that it has never been established that G33 sockpuppeted on this article). First SPTS was found to be socking with a couple of accounts,

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technical theories also are logically geared to prove the same: Ultra's theory that I'm driving super fast from one city to another, and Merzbow's theory that I'm using a wireless device, and multiple ISP's, remote desktop, etc. from multiple computers at the same place.

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guarding against what is seen and not seen. A more scientific survey shows that this evidence has no weight to it, and when the smoke is cleared, it turns out to be only dry-ice creating it. The same is true for these other too common phrases found by many editors alike:

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On days when at least two accounts edited, further proof of identity may be derived by comparing the times of day at which they edit the same articles. Edits to the same article or talk page at approximately the same time are likely to be from the same user. (Edits to

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article. In fact it is better cited and more NPOV than many of the more controversial articles. From what I've read of the discussions in Talk I feel it comes down to whether WP wants to be an American Encyclopedia or a World Encyclopedia…Wayne 18:19, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

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away to trumpet his point and further the accusation--if SGR was out to create evidence against him, and make me look innocent. Which one? If anything looks faked, it's this. But Merzbow wants it both ways, even though both sets of circumstances are almost identical.

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extremely suspect. While Merzbow claims Giovanni managed to edit at the exact moment of other users through complicated PC networking, Merzbow not only shows he has the knowledge to sockpuppet and evade RFCU, he further has no shared editing times with Supergreenred:

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Contained within Ultra’s evidence above, SuperGreenRed is in San Jose. This is closer to Merzbow than to myself (Sunnyvale and San Jose are right next to each other). Merzbow already said he is able to play many roles with the technical means he has at his disposal.

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For completeness I should also point out other long term sock puppeters on this article, which has seen more than its fair share of those, which may possibly be useful when evaluating the network evidence which I cannot see. Editing from New York: Indefinitely banned

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redundancies (see diffs 1, 5, 7, 10, 12). He frequently misspells words, and will usually spell "it's" as "its" and "let's" as "lets". He connects clauses with two dashes and no spaces, but often does not hyphenate compound words that need them (see section below).

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other days. This does not rule out the possibility that any particular account might be unrelated, but it broadly confirms the suspicion of sockpuppetry and shows the method by which Giovanni33 selectively turned on and off his habit of using secondary accounts.

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similar language and editing patterns (as outlined above). In view of this, and Giovanni's self-acknowledged sockpuppetry in the past, will Arbcom still believe the argument that they all are from Northern California because "it's a hotbed of left-wing activism?"

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This is not true, and for someone who is quite able to look at details, it's not credible that he misses this, with the qualification of "as far as I can tell." What can't he look to make sure to support his claim before he makes it? This is just more evidence of

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grammatical mistake, actually there is no agreed-upon guideline regarding the use of compound words in English; there is quite a variance among the closed form, hyphenated form, and open form of compound words. This is reflected among editor use, though out WP.

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Ultramarine conclude that this shows that “Giovanni33 previously have moved away from San Francisco to avoid detection.” He repeats the same point: “San Jose instead of San Francisco showing the considerable efforts Giovanni33 makes to hide his sock puppetry.”

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precedent, ArbCom should not be reluctant to block anyone in this group whose actions are substantially similar to Giovanni33's because the statistical evidence supports the checkuser and behavioral evidence showing that Giovanni33 has indeed used sockpuppets.

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on the same day as returning to the project indicates that the account's controller already had knowledge of the situation on those pages - a matter of minutes passed between the first two edits on articles the account had prevously edited (07:56 and 07:58 on

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The early-morning shared time period is an outlier. The fact that the start time is within 3 minutes, and the end time within 21 minutes, lends credence that this was done deliberately by one person at one location. Note the reversion to form in the evening.

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3. It is mentioned that I’m currently under an Arbitration Remedy restriction of 1R/week, which I have violated. Its true I’ve slipped a couple of times by accident. But I edit a lot, and my overall record is one of compliance to these restrictions, without

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Again, I am not making any accusations based on such a specious methodology. These are surely coincidences, but they illustrate the flawed nature of using it to create appearances, and it may allow Merzbow to see how it feels. I certainly don't like this.

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I will examine the evidence below, but I want to point out that on a few occasions I had an edit conflict while leaving a message on the talk page of an article at the same time one of my alleged socket-puppets was doing so. I’ll have to dig up that diff.

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who wants to bring in the media because they are banned from an online project like Knowledge is not good for the community. That demonstrates the combative, hostile attiude of someone that has an agenda, rather than merely wants to help out as they can.

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As usual for Giovanni33 made numerous claims of reverting to consensus which was particularly strange in this case. 5 hours after the last edit and being blocked another of Giovanni33's IPs, now from San Francisco, continued reverting to exactly the same

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SGR and RF had already started editing. It's far more telling that these accounts happened to leap into action within hours of SPTS coming back from a week off than it is that they started editing the same day G33 was blocked (much later in the day).

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As well as the claim made by one of his indefinitely blocked sock puppets that some of his reverts have been made by his wife and a friend, also discussed on the checkuser page, which if true would be meatpuppetry but would also make checkuser more

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Here Rafaelsfingers reverts to Giovanni33's exact version in the Guatemalan Civil War article. Not to one of the 13 intermediate different versions by different editors in some cases having the same POV but not the exactly identical text as that of

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SGR first arrived at the "Allegations" article on April 13th (as did RF, see below). After a week's break SPTS began editing that article on the 13th as well (check contribs for all three). Now some might rush and say, but what about G33, he was

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appear outside, and a couple times the beginning or end of adjacent time periods will overlap by a few minutes, but in general, they slot neatly and usually tightly between each other, even on days when more than two of the accounts are editing.

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it should create some serious doubt among those who believe G33 is controlling all of these accounts. It is equally if not more likely that they are connected to Stone put to sky, a blocked user who has socked on the article in question before.

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am open to providing "real world" evidence of this provided some assurances of confidentiality. Those who falsely accuse innocent people should be stopped. So, to whom should I fax my medical diploma? I would like to put these games to an end.

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for all actions of an editor (as those will have changed by the time people click on your links), although a link to a log for a specific article or a specific block log can be useful. Please make sure any page section links are permanent. See

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I assume ArbCom's slow response time on this case stems from an uncertainty regarding the allegations of sockpuppetry. I have compiled data for user contributions of about a dozen suspected and confirmed sockpuppets of Giovanni33 to assay an

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opened (and the noted reluctance of Olawe to talk), yet they continued to revert. Anyways, even if one post is 10 sentences, and another is 50, the fact that individual sentences share a common, peculiar awkwardness makes for a correlation.

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This does not change the overwhelming evidence presented here, such as that regarding linguistics and other behavior typical of Giovanni33 by these accounts, showing that Giovanni33 has used these accounts to break policy by sock puppetry.

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In contrast, the G33 accounts don't do this. Periods of intense editing activity by these accounts usually abut each other very closely, but never overlap - except for two outliers in which they overlay very closely (said arse-covering).

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If so, then some of the posts by the accounts may have been by Stone put to sky or by Giovanni33 using material supplied by Stone put to sky, or Giovanni33 taking over an old Stone put to sky sock puppet account, to obscure the evidence.

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SPA (before the RfA started) with few edits, despite being created on July 2007, reverting to Giovanni33 earlier versions and repeating his arguments. Examples: Here DrGabriela reverts to Giovanni33's exaxt version in the Chuch Committe

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particular city. Yes, we all know about multiple ISP's, the admins here i'm sure are quite familiar with the internet, but no IP addresses have been linked! I've taken the suggestions of other admins and have ventured to other topics.

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case. There are two main sides to this content dispute: essentially those who want to delete the material and those who want to keep it. However, Merzbow distorts this fact, and makes a false claim in regards to this point. He says,

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Why is it that something that is so common was chosen as the best evidence against me? Not for want of looking. Basically anything that confirmed the bias was selected and anything that didn't match up was ignored. A classic case of

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It is worth noting at the outset though that all three of the accounts below were created during lengthy (and relatively rare) periods of inactivity on the SPTS account. SGR was created on 3/16/2008, RF on 3/28/08 in the midst of a

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As clear from their very short edit histories, they have only one purpose in WP: to support Giovanni33 by all available means including edit warring. This is in addition to being probable puppets. They all should be indefinitely

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Previous evidence has assumed that these accounts are helping Giovanni, and to an extent that is true, though they would also be helping SPTS just as much since that user agreed with G33. But particularly with SGR, they are also

6041:("Allegations") as more than half their total edits come from the article or its talk page. SPTS and G33 were generally in agreement on the article, and to say that G33's position was almost always SPTS's position is no stretch. 3848:

BTP doesn't mention any linguistic evidence; the fact is it points to G33 and away from SPTS. My evidence section above already lays out the copious similarities between the socks and G33. SPTS is prone to nasty personal attacks

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That would be a considerable effort, if true (not to mention expensive, gas is over $ 4/gal here). The evidence by Merzbow is more relevant, focused, and interesting, and makes th heart of he case, which I’ll examine in detail.

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and a notable topic…The nominator appears to be big on deleting articles that conspire and accuse the USA of wrong-doing, although I won't go as far as accusing them of violationg WP:POINT…-- Reaper X 07:13, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

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It is extremely important that you use the prescribed format. Submitted evidence should include a link to the actual page diff in question, or to a short page section; links to the page itself are insufficient. Never link to a

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A simple user check will confirm this, and I have my play ticket, which I will take a picture of and link to here. A user check and verify that the IP address is identical and consistent with all his other editors from home.

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it's has much less value in "proof" of sockpuppetry than the fact that none of the accused sock puppets show any evidence at all of G33's signature lenghty re-edited posting style support a finding of "not sock puppets". --

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a comment in Filipino (I have no way to verify that that is actually a native speaker writing Filipino). Stone put to Sky has exhibited a strong interest in the Philippines and that region of the world generally. That user

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not implausible given coverage of the Philippines in the article, and add a human-rights interest - again not an implausible thing for a sock identity on this article - you have a neat backstory for a sock. So let's Google

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Lastly, on the very front page of "starnetinc.com" one sees a big link to "Megapop Dial - Dial Up Access". And on "popsite.net", one sees "Popsite.net is the reverse DNS for our dial-up equipment accross the country", and

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SPA with few edits reverting to Giovanni33 earlier versions and repeating his arguments. Examples: Here Supergreenred reverts to Rafaelsfingers's (another sock puppet, see above) exact version in the US state terrorism

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The fact that I believe the evidence above can and will be sufficiently refuted, points to the accuracy of my analysis regarding its inherent weakness given the extremely common typos, "its vs it's, lets vs let's, etc.

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IPs not from San Francisco but from North Fork, California. Appeared during a week when Giovanni33 could not revert due to his 1R/W. 64.118.111.137 made 9 reverts to the US state terrorism article and was blocked for

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When Rafaelsfingers was blocked it was Giovanni33 pleaded for unblocking on Rafaelsingers own talk page. Not Rafaelsingers until an administrator remarked that this looked bad and asked for a reply by Rafaelsfingers.

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time and space. This was equally true with these phrases that follow the same patterns and thus suffer from the same flaw, which I provide a few examples of each to match what was presented as evidence against me.

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IP from San Francisco. Used to revert to Giovanni33's preferred version. Examples: Here makes similar reverts using the same arguments as Giovanni33 in the Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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at work here. The fact is that many more editors prefer the longer version, not the stubbed one, or greatly shortened one (this is prior to having the section being moving to its own article and expanded there).

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One thing I find very disturbing about editing here is that we have editors treating WP as a political battlefield, who wage battles even at the cost of article content, and at the cost of core WP values, such as

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1. My block log is presented as relevant for consideration. I disagree. If anything my block log shows how much I’ve proven my ability to reform. Most of it, though, is wheel-warring, over issues not related to

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forgetting to convert from UTC to PST (and apparently confusing 12 and 24 hour time). Since G33 helpfully tells us in his evidence which play he supposedly attended - "Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class (

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from a newborn baby that can be collected from its placenta and umbilical cord after the cord has been clamped is rich in hematopoietic stem cells, and is utilized as a source of stem cells for transplantation."

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While the evidence is a bit weaker here, there is one critical point one must remember from Merzbow's evidence. Far and away the strongest linguistic connection is between Supergreenred and Rafaelsfingers (see

3992:) from the CU evidence. Different ISPs, but they appear to be very close in location. Some other technical evidence also suggests strongly that they are the same user." We also have "Confirmed that Ratatoui is 5087:

are quite clearly single-purpose accounts registered for editing articles Giovanni has had trouble with. They have shown little interest in articles he is not concerned with or are related to those he edits.

4303:, notable, and of good quality. Six nominations for deletion is ridiculous and this sort of disruptive behavior on behalf of the current nominator should not be permitted. Badagnani 22:27, 25 June 2007 (UTC) 6085: 3601:

in the process as well). This IP has not edited an article since 4/14, an article talk page since 4/30, and anything else since 5/14. The article is then semi-protected, putting an end to the IP's escapades.

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There is a long old WP:ANI discussion regarding Giovanni33 and his many sock puppets where large scale sock puppetry was confirmed and he came very close to being indefinitely blocked but was given a second

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different editing and behaviors among us. Simply sharing a similar interest in US foreign policy, not just with me but many other editors is perfectly legitimate and reasonable finding for the SF Bay Area.

3436:"The fact is that many more editors prefer the longer version, not the stubbed one, or greatly shortened one" - I will point out the simple fact that if "many more" actually did prefer the longer version, 3380:?) And yes, if one "Remote Desktop"s into another computer and browses, the IP is from the target computer. I'd like to see him present evidence he was at a play when one of the Comcast IPs was posting. - 5724:

Of course, I edited things more to my own interest, such as climate change, global warming issues. I will note that the editor I’m accused of being (Giovanni33) has not shown any interest in these issues.

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edit by the DG account led me down an alternative avenue of explanation which I think is equally if not more plausible: some or all of these accounts are connected not to G33, but to the already banned

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of Supergreenred’s article space edits. This user has been interested solely in the "Allegations" article and its related topics, but was specifically interested in following/reverting Ultramarine.

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I noticed that RafaelFingers left a message earlier today on the evidence page, and this gave me an idea. I happened to be attending this a performance of Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class (

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There are more but you get the point. Conclusion? More editors used the non-hyphened (open) form of this compound word. Now, how many were using the ‘proper” hyphened form? Only 7, less than half.

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even though that admin blocked him for a reason that Supergreenred heavily disputed. I have only had such poor relations with Giovanni33, who often removes comments that I leave on his talk page.

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edits on 4/09 and lots on 4/12, and one of the IPs (76.102.72.153) edited heavily on 4/08 and 4/09. Also, SPTS's contribs history is full of weeks off. I see no patterns here vis-a-vis the socks.

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Strange reaction by an editor with supposedly only a dozen edits at this time and who had never encountered John Smith before. But Giovanni33 has a long history of deleting John Smith's edits.

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Also, take a look at this regarding Merzbow's point of raising the question of the use of “its” vs. “It’s” interacting with SuperGreenRed about this issue; it is a convenient catch, but odd:

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In order so no innocent people are treated unfairly, I am willing to provide 'real life' evidence to a neutral minded admin to prove I the other person is not my 'sock puppet' or vice versa.

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IP from the San Francisco. Has made a single edit in Knowledge which was to the US state terrorism article. Like Giovanni33 has an aversion to the word "claim" when describing views favored.

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Of Giovanni33's 24 offdays, the suspected sockpuppets edited on four: May 23, May 11, May 10 and March 30. There is a notable stretch of 3 offdays from April 6 through April 8, in which

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SPA with few edits reverting to Giovanni33 earlier versions and repeating his arguments. Examples: Here Rafaelsfingers reverts to Giovanni33's version in the US state terrorism article.

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Also, I noticed that RafaelFingers left a message earlier on this evidence page at the time I happened to be attending this a performance of Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class (

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DrGabriela now picks up where 76.102.72.153 (who can no longer edit due to semi-protection) and Olawe (blocked for 24h) have left off, performing exactly the same revert, no less than

3591:), much covered in Ultra's sections and my sections above, also showed up this day, and just like Olawe, reverts multiple times to G33's preferred longer version of the Japan section: 3465: 2888:

For each phrase below, I report the results of a Google search of Knowledge, to establish a baseline. If you wish to duplicate the search, remember to surround the phrase with quotes.

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From January 1 through June 11, a span of 164 days, Giovanni33 edited from his main account on 140 days. His frequency was 0.853, approximately six days per week. For other users:

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I am reporting only results from January 1, 2008 and later. Most of the suspected sockpuppets edited exclusively this year. Giovanni33 and some older sockpuppets go back to 2006.

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Being an intelligent fellow, Merzbow correctly anticipates a logical reply. Namely that it would be easy for me to use same method to “prove” that Ultramarine is my puppet, in a

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after he filed his evidence. I can remedy that by simply looking at older edits. Easily done. However, I don't even need to do that. I can test out the theory by looking at this:

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The centerpiece of BTP's timing argument revolves around events on April 13th on "Allegations...", to wit: "G33 was editing the article at the same time as well <as SPTS: -->

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with Dr.Gabriela on the talk page. Why are all facts that counter his theory left out? Are we not supposed to try to present all the facts to that the truth can be discerned?

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in fact, I think it likely G33 is dialing into Honolulu to play Olawe, because Olawe and SGR are on the same dialup ISP, with access points across the country. However, it is

2628:- "That is why States will deny doing it. Its violates acceptable moral norms becaues it targets innocents. This is true even if the goal is to save lives or does so in fact." 2573:- "Its as if he did not bother to read the many sources that disagree with him... It should be restored and changes should be discussed before making major changes like this." 1039: 6898: 6560:, "paint a POV picture"). That shared phrase makes it extremely likely that SGR and RF are connected, so if one is not connected to G33 it is likely the other is not either. 4658:- “The term "off topic" is sometimes used to indicate a discussion venue where anything other than matters specifically addressed by the website in question are addressed.” 4456:

Likewise, if I cherry pick I can find many instances where I do use the hyphen for compound words, even though I’m alleged to be allergic to such use, to prove the opposite:

4405:. I selected one page dealing with the same issue where the term is phrase is likely to be used. The form of compound word it's used is mostly open. The page, again is here: 2897:

Out of many variations of this phrase in the surrounding discussion, only these two accounts use this particular variation, capitalizing "all" and tacking on a question mark.

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of the accounts edited. Some of the sockpuppets were active in the days shortly before and after this interval. None of the sockpuppets edited from January 1 to March 5.

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It's commonly used in this form by thousands of editors on wikipedia as my simple search revealed. In fact, even Merzbow used it in this way himself (to be shown below).

6231:) obviously an experienced user. Their first non-user space contribution to Knowledge was to report Dance With the Devil, the user who first got SPTS in trouble, for 3RR. 5469: 3836:

to believe SPTS is socking these accounts from a Taiwan location - we know that some of these accounts are on cable/wireless connections - one cannot "dial-in" to these.

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Obviously an experienced editor familiar with WP policies since he made references to AfD, speedy keep, good faith, POV, and featured status in his first talk page edit.

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IP from San Francisco. Five edits in Knowledge all to US state terrorism article. Like another of Giovanni33's IPs it removes Red Army Fraction terrorism against the US.

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The account was created during a gap in SPTS's contributions, but went quite for nine months. It resumed editing on April 18th, 3 days after SPTS was indef blocked.

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Based on only a small part of the evidence presented below, he was blocked indefinitely for using sock puppets recently but some doubt remained and he was unblocked.

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Your on a comcast IP that has a certain range. Let's look at the contributions to Wikpedia over that range of addresses. They are all in SF area and you can see

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IP from San Francisco. Has made a single edit in Knowledge which like Giovanni33 a few days earlier removed an entire section from the US state terrorism article.

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IP from the San Francisco. Used to revert to Giovanni33's preferred version. Examples: Here reverts to Giovanni33 exact version in the US state terrorism article.

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Therefore, when I noted that Rafelfingers actually posted his first respond to this page at the same time I was attending a play, Merzbow logically responded, "

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IP from the San Francisco. Used to revert to Giovanni33's preferred version. Examples: Here reverts to Giovanni33's exact version in the William Blum article.

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There is something else which is quite critical about this 3RR report—G33 weighed in and said he did not think that Dance with the Devil should be blocked (

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But the rest of the evidence is interesting for what was left out as much as what was included. When I looked into it, I found this to be a strong case of

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Supergreenred was reblocked by R. Baley on 27th May for violating the terms of his unblock. Justification for this was left on Supergreenred's talk page.

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Merzbow’s IP was revealed and a search shows it to be in the same Geographical Location as these alleged socket-puppets, but in particular SuperGreenRed:

3099: 2610:- "Its a lot of words but those are a lot of good sources. It shows that there is quite a lot of good sources that support the material for this article." 2143: 639: 637: 635: 8321: 6929: 6894: 6038: 5535: 5093: 5061: 4324:, it combines other articles to do it. Can we write Alleged State terrorism by France as I have shown JungleCat Shiny!/Oohhh! 22:41, 25 June 2007 (UTC)” 3826: 3561: 3507: 1064: 887: 771: 193: 5631: 6029: 5636: 5486: 5456: 5429: 4429: 3976: 3412: 3408: 3362: 1056: 497: 3049: 7734: 7718: 7322: 5502:

Good to see a bit of voting finally happening. Meanwhile, G33 is almost comically making the case for the prosecution over at his most recent block:

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very next edit to demonstrate the point he was making. But, wait, this was after Merzbow presented this evidence. Again, he can't have it both ways.

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from 2 PM to 4:30 PM on Sundays (and 5/4 was a Sunday). But again, we know from the timestamps that RF edited only from 7:25 PM to 7:44 PM that day.

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causal connection, interpreting a meaning from it, will yield any results that one wants to look for, and look impressive on the surface, a type of

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said. Bottom line is that the "play evidence" does not exonerate G33, and RF's response is what one would expect from a sock, not a normal editor.

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My personal view of these accounts are that SuperGreenRed is an impersonator (more on that later) and the other two accounts are legitimate users.

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negligible edit history on non-G33 articles, all in agreement with him; i.e. meatpuppetry even if, by some miracle, they aren't the same person).

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Giovanni33 has a peculiar allergy to hyphenating compound words that should be hyphenated. His alternate accounts share his affliction. To wit:

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RF edited José Santos Zelaya‎ 23 times, the only article the user has put any real work into besides “Allegations”. SPTS edited the article

5732:(MusicalLinguist) brings up (Giovanni's) alleged past mistakes constantly, however these are over 6 months old when this editor first joined. 5459: 4750: 4718: 3394: 2995: 2906:- "...This op ed piece is not accurate, creates a straw man (who ever claims that the US is to be blamed for ALL the deaths?). Nonsense! ..." 2651: 1119:

Taipei, Taiwan: 118.165.217.88, 118.165.219.98, 118.165.219.150, 118.165.218.235, 118.165.217.93, 220.134.17.21. Likely indefinitely blocked

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SPTS's primary nemesis. G33 does not care for Ultramarine's editing either, but has never really taunted him as SPTS and these accounts do.

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Now, its true Merzbow prefers to use the hyphened form most of the times. He seems to be a stickler for proper grammar. But guess what if I

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that disproves the claims. I was surprised myself how easy it was. It turns out that the rarity of these examples are greatly exaggerated.

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I still don't find BTP's theory that these socks/meats are connected to SPTS plausible; earlier we discussed this at length on my talk page

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Somebody unwisely convinces the protecting admin to unprotect the page. Bad move. Olawe reverts twice the description of the Japan section (

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In addition to violating 1R/week, also violates WP:SOCK by voting at the same time as Giovanni33 in an AfD regarding the US state terrorism.

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In addition to violating 1R/week, also violates WP:SOCK by voting at the same time as Giovanni33 in an AfD regarding the US state terrorism.

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me is a claim I have made. Now Merzbow says he has impersonated him. Well then we can agree that the account mimics others, apparently.

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I'd like to see him present evidence he was at a play when one of the Comcast IPs was posting. - Merzbow (talk) 18:34, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

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fallacy. When controls are applied, this becomes clear. I’ll look at each one of these with a more scientific approach, using blinds.

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supergreenred and thought it captured the essence of what I was trying to say. Similar to 'ping me' or 'rtfm', just a learned phrase.

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Folks can draw their own conclusions, but I felt it was relevant to bring this in and let the chips fall where they may. Giovanni has

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They are essentially SPA with few edits. They edit a very narrow range of related articles that Giovanni33 is interested in. Such as

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I've done work on philosophy (theory of everything), history (President Wilson), Marx, and many others that were non-controversial.

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in SPTS contributions (G33 was still editing heavily during these times). Rather odd coincidences but it gets far more odd below.

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San Francisco, California: 76.102.72.153, 67.180.59.86, 76.126.64.74, 67.188.208.203, 71.204.160.68, 67.188.208.91. As per above.

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article space edits. The interest in Nicaragua and snarky remark to Ultramarine suggests more of a connection to SPTS than G33.

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Note the lack of apostrophe. Also, note the frequent use of "also" before or after this phrase. Only a handful of Google hits.

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started if not faked. But from then there are none. Is instead yet more evidence of why Giovanni33 should not edit Knowledge.

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If anyone was in any doubt that G33 considers this important enough to indulge in multiple socks and expensive dial-up, then

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It is abundantly clear from the evidence provided by Merzbow and Ultramarine that all alleged Giovanni33 puppets are SPAs:

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activist. One tenuous connection for another, no? (Also note G33 previously used a sock account with an Asian female name -

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The below pattern can be explained by one person at one location, using different browsers or a second computer to edit. An

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page with his first edit. His interest in the project is relatively small since he was warned to keep away from that page.

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I note that Merzbow's response ignores the "obscurity" point. I take that as an admission that it is not obscure after all?

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and his earlier sock puppet farm also used a variety of internet connections and locations to avoid detection (see below).

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section: thus what is "Giovanni's version" is often the version of several people on the same side, and would essentially

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For easy reference, here are links to the users mentioned below in my section (all suspected socks/meats of Giovanni33):

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wouldn't have had to bring in upwards of a half-dozen sock/meatpuppets to war to keep it in. Even I Write Stuff said he

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many other good editors have been banned, some clearly unjustly, after only making a few edits. NPOV77 is one such user

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All of the following accounts and IPs come from the same geographic area as Giovanni33 who is located in San Francisco.

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Edits from the same geographic area Giovanni33. Has made a few edits from Rafaelsfingers's ISP early in his history.

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Matches G33 end time in the morning, but in the evening their times are shifted by 2 hours relative to each other.

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that drive up his count and article diversity. All of his non-vandalism edits are to support his POV crusade. --

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Besides the cherry picking (excluding the many differences, and different articles) my response is best summed up

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I will first point out that the evidence presented in "Tables turned?" is quite blatantly manufactured. Note that

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On "Allegations...", a new IP editor reverts three times past intermediate revisions to G33's preferred version:

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have now done this, which is more in line with SPTS's tendency to personalize edit summaries against Ultramrine

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Giovanni33 states that 69.107.7.138 does not resolve to San Jose. It does using these IP localization services:

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shorter forms. Bottom line is, it's extremely unlikely that five+ different editors, all but one of whom have

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Giovanni33 does not say what service he used but presumably it is the same he uses regarding an IP by Merzbow.

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conditions necessary for the conclusions that are reached. Indeed, I hope to show that it’s deeply flawed by

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of the socks edited there. In contrast, the suspected accounts, as a whole, have edited in support of G33 on

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11:27:26 (8) (with single edits at 16:01:17 and 21:33:57, in the middle of 1-2 hour bouts of G33 inactivity).

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trait with another does nothing to established a basis of connecting me to that person. It's insufficient.

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G: "you remove "historian' despite what the sources say." Giovanni33 stating "remove" instead of "removed".

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S: "Source calls him a historian, but you remove that." Supergreenred stating "remove" instead of "removed".

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Has made at least one edit from San Jose using a dial-up connection and stated access to dynamic IP address.

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nicely demonstrates how impossible G33 is to work with and why the project would be better off without him

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Specifically on the subject of including Jeremiah Wright's views in "Allegations..." and related articles:

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Here Supergreenred reverts to an IP in the same geographic area as Giovanni33 in the William Blum article.

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There are consecutive days on which at least two of the suspected sockpuppets edit on all of those days.

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All of the reversions on this article are of Ultramarine or, in one case, DWTD, excepting one minor edit

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that the US ordered the rape. This would still not justify a graphic rape scen, it adds no information.

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Ultramarine cite in his evidence that Supergreenred revealed his IP address to be in San Jose: address.

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in turn, and predictably, Olawe and DrGabriela show up immediately to revert-war back to his version: (

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He is currently under an Arbitration Remedy restriction of 1R/week which he has violated several times.

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almost every (maybe every) article G33 has been in conflict with Ultramarine at in the past few months

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Anyone, whether directly involved or not, may add evidence to this page. Create your own section and

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No, but blocked within minutes of first article edits for tendentious editing and personal attacks:

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the evidence today regarding the new accounts. I stand innocent of repeating any such misbehaviors.

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Google says this is rarer than "counter-point", which itself is ten times rarer than "counterpoint".

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by using them in votes and in talk page discussions in order to give a false impression of support.

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article edits above and I agree with that analysis, thus it's not really worth it to discuss them.

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Here Supergreenred deletes a talk page edit by John Smith stating "John Smith is not welcome here."

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a lengthy section on the Philippines in the "Allegations" article. More on this connection below.

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articles can unfortunately suffer disproportionately in comparison to those not so well sourced.”

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Google says this is rarer than "over-stating", which itself is ten times rarer than "overstating".

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more than any other combination of accounts, and edit almost nowhere else except to back up G33.

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blocked/runs out of reverts. That somebody is not living in Taiwan, he's living in the Bay Area.

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to an obvious area of interest to Merzbow) and excluding the “Allegations” article, this is the

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in that it has no less than 93 external references…EliminatorJR Talk 23:31, 25 June 2007 (UTC)”

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Giovanni33 but are all the IPs from California that have edited the article during this period.

646: 231: 7677: 7269: 5959: 5841: 5793: 3077:- "You make your claim to justify your blanking a well referenced section against consensus..." 2736:- "Now I am banned? Wow. This is a new worthy story! ... But as of now im rather flabergasted!" 2047: 1777: 1250: 892: 592: 473: 146: 71: 3663:). Out of reverts, now who should show up but Supergreenred, with three more in the holster: ( 2846:- "the edit summaries make sense to me, and Gio's arguments on the talk page are convincing." 2749:- "I looked over the changes and like the other editor, the version by Dr.Gabriela is better." 824: 706: 523: 306: 8302:

logs to confirm the data. "No overlap" means the edits were disjoint by more than one hour.

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The article was then protected until 5/20. While protected, Olawe disappeared from Knowledge.

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for this person Giovanni - I am editing this from my main computer (not my wireless device).

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But in this case, I am not alleged to have ever used it so its hardly evidence against me.

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None of the accused sockpuppets shares G33's most notable linguistic/editing characteristic

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and then has no answer to the blindingly obvious 'why is it that you keep having to revert?

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Ultramarine: pretty much all day the 23rd to 01:04:21 on the 24th, then 06:17:21 <-: -->

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Here DrGabriela reverts to Giovanni33's version in the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état article.

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Here Giovanni33 reverts to the same paragraph text as DrGabriela in the Terrorism article.

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G: "You are cherry picking what information to include and exclude on the basis of POV."

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DrGabriela at 21:30, 21:33, 21:37, 21:39 etc. until 22:57. At first he edits unrelated

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passed the laugh test, I'm afraid. (Note that the recently reblocked Mantanmoreland was

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before the RfA since the accusations of sock puppetry against both of them came earlier.

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The only one that is not common is this phrase and thus is good evidence is this one:

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Now I'm sure Giovanni is going to respond by attempting to prove he's a sockpuppet of

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Here Giovanni33 reverts to this IP's exact version on the US state terrorism article.

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Edits from the same same geographic area as Giovanni33. Mostly from a wireless device.

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Various anti-Ultramarine edits in line with the pattern from the other two accounts:

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Here Giovanni33 reverts to Supergreenred's exact version in the William Blum article:

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Giovanni33 at 21:18, 21:20, 21:21, 22:03, 22:37, etc. to US-Chile articles and WP:AE

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During this case it has become apparent that there is a very strong likelihood that

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Knowledge:Articles for deletion/Allegations of state terrorism by the United States

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determined to make things look as bad as humanly possible for him, or he's socking.

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article about a broadly known phenomenon. Jayjg (talk) 06:21, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

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Corrected my typo above; I quite obviously meant to say "easier", not "harder". -

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Many Google hits, but only a half-dozen that confuse "principle" with "principal".

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exists, and following him to other articles and voting for whatever he votes for."

503:. Here Giovanni33 reverts to DrGabriela's version in the State terrorism article. 8036: 7892: 7590: 7416: 7103: 7005: 6846: 6827: 6638: 6571: 6564: 6525: 6454: 6344: 5896: 5565: 5188: 5074: 5053: 5048: 5020: 4975: 4698:. In contrast, the truth of the matter may even strain common sense, as does the 4466: 4410: 3892: 3785: 3749: 3733: 3515: 3499:, dialing in from an Honolulu access number. Note that this is the same ISP that 2813:

And now for a blast from the past (all the below are former confirmed G33 socks).

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Giovanni33 at 08:00, 08:07, 08:18, 08:26, supporting Olawe's request for unblock

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I have a lot more to contribute to a number of scientific articles in particular

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an editor and involved himself in an edit-war simply to agitate that individal.

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Again, this is very common within Knowledge, including without the apostrophe.

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In fact our own WP entry on the subject uses it in its open form (no hyphens):

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on the strict restriction that he not engage in edit-warring and tag-teaming,

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until June 13th. And thus concludes a few days in the life of "Allegations..."

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so thanks for that. I hope that you can see how jumping to this conclusion:

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Aside from the allegations of terrorism nexus, the most edited article is

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in Taiwan and I believe past Checkusers have verified that. SPTS actually

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filed the request that led to these two accounts being tied to SPTS (also

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Out of pages of Google hits for this phrase, all appear to use the hyphen.

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Google shows that this phrase - with the exclamation point - is very rare.

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Misses G33, but overlaps Rafaelsfingers by one or two hours on either end

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Another sock puppet has edited from 38.114.145.148 or Concord, California.

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Rafaelsfingers at 02:25, 02:36, 02:39, 02:43, 02:44 to this Evidence page

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I resent his attributing negative motivation to my edits, including even

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A rather uncommon phrase, much more uncommon than those used against me:

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A few edits worth considering before looking at some areas of interest:

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has also recently come in to the fray, but has not been linked to G33).

3967:); he claims it was run by his wife, but true or not the point stands.) 3143:- "I agree with the other editors here that this is SYN, and off topic." 2702:- "Not, not sufficent time for discussion or consensus. Not even a day!" 1818: 1526: 1418: 1102:

IPs that have edited Allegations of state terrorism by the United States

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S: "you are cherry picking only selective facts to paint a POV picture."

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in SPTS's contributions. DG was created on 7/20/2007 in the midst of a

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it's much harder to control the length of one's post than one's style.

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North Fork, California: 64.118.111.137, 64.118.113.49. As per above.

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Bigtimepeace shows that this IP is Giovanni33 editing from Palo Alto.

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Here Giovanni33 reverts to this IP in the US state terrorism article.

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Far more than G33, this user has been devoted to battling it out at

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Let me know what can be done, if anything, to correct this injustice

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Once again, as demonstrated in the last case on him, Giovanni33 has

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To continue this cherry picking method, I did some more searching.

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Olawe at 20:56, 21:17, 21:59, 22:11, 22:24 to "allegations" article

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later indef blocked SPTS for further sockpuppetry as estabished at

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I do not wish to sneak back in with another IP address and account.

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can look for any editor and find a match under the same criteria.

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S: "Allow time for discussion and consensus before mass deletions."

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The editor claims to be of Filipino heritage/nationality and even

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I'm sure arbcom has much higher standards of "evidence" than that!

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Running count of G33 SPA sock/meat blanket reverts since 5/09: 30+

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Examples of using an edit summary with "see talk" in the heading

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I do see you have now softened some of your proclamations, here,

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and is a legitimate topic…Clarityfiend 07:31, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

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The above does not include the much older confirmed sock puppets

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Editing from unknown location but not the same area as Giovanni33

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talk page support of Giovanni immediately after Giovanni comment

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To avoid cherry-picking bias, lets only look at one page, again:

4479:(unless it's really rare or unique--a linguistic fingerprint). 3420:) from 2 pm to 4:30 pm" - so we can verify that the play indeed 3177:

These are the only instances on Knowledge of this unique phrase.

6774:(a large coalition of leftist groups in the Philippines) twice 6557: 6080:, for whom SPTS had great antipathy. It is also important that 5510:; when asked for a diff fails to provide one. He then skips to 5115: 3027:- "Therefore, will restore the massive deletions on principal." 2647:- "...the paramilitary death squads--in 1967 Mario Sandoval..." 2541:

Grammar/writing examples, huffy lecturing, use of "its", "lets"

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Ultramarine had edited the Blum article 17 times by my count.

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Other Philippines related edits by DG include the following:

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Cites grammar/writing examples, of "its", "lets" as evidence

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sources, if not I'll at least try to provide counter point…”

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on which SPTS and Ultramarine had major disagreements on was

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24-hour block, and the race is back on! So far we've got one

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May 26, 3 users edit (Giovanni33, DrGabriela, Supergreenred)

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Second edit is to directly support Giovanni in an edit war:

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Google shows that the large majority of uses are hyphenated.

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as well as the indefinitely blocked suspected sock puppets,

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This page is not for general discussion - for that, see the

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A different puppetmaster? A reconsideration of the evidence

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no point and counter point -- it is a one-sided viewpoint."

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we find 15 instances of the open form vs 7 hyphenated forms

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Often redacts talk posts after not hitting preview button

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very negative speculations that are not based in reality.

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He then cites one of my old indefinitely blocked puppets,

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Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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have been SPTS's version if that user was still editing.

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to this Trend following article? Bfisk (talk • contribs)

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After DrGabriela is blocked 24h for 3RR, Olawe comes off

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Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Arbitrators may analyze evidence and other assertions at

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Talk:Allegations of state terrorism by the United States

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proven above -- just as common as the correct usage is.

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Linguistic evidence does not supports charge of puppetry

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G33-supporting SPAs continue to tag-team revert with him

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that he attended a play at the same time RF edited from

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G: "Allow for editors imput and consensus first please."

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Olawe at 06:43, 07:19, 07:36, 07:40, requesting unblock

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play, and mentions that he noticed that Rafaelsfingers

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I am willing to prove my identity if that is necessary.

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But, in order to avoid the same kind of cherry picking

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Google shows only a half-dozen hits without the hyphen.

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S: "Allow consensus for what to properly remove first."

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One of Giovanni33's indefinitely blocked sock puppets,

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Giovanni33 may have the longest block log in Knowledge.

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launch into conflicts on a number of articles such as

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In regards to specific users, it should be noted that

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Rafaelsfinger's response seems normal to me, btw. His

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material…” ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 04:30, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

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by looking at one page to avoid the same traps of the

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IP, 208.54.15.129, to revert to Giovanni33's versions.

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G: "Please allow for consensus before re-adding back."

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Moodiness or attacking other editors in edit summary

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activity at the "Allegations" article on April 13th.

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I will repeat my statement above in my own language:

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He is known to have used many different sock puppets.

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Olawe at 20:44, 20:55 and 21:10 to Talk:Allegations.

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Complaining that it's unfair to bring up his "past"

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Herald&Review.com Health Blog (February 2007) -

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23:22:31 (34) (also single edit at 01:23:01 on 18th)

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who used numerous sock puppets to edit this article.

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Create your own section to provide evidence in, and

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