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Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/XAndreWx
User:XAndreWx reported by User:Sprigot
Second city of the United Kingdom
Talk page comments
Hi- thanks for your comments on my Talk page. I just wanted to clarify that, yes, I did not direct User:TharkunColl's attention to his violation of WP:3RR (1. because I know he's already well aware of the policy, and 2. because I have no concern for his actions beyond diminishing the results of his disruptiveness); however, I'm sure you can also see that I did notify User:XAndreWx that he was indeed up to five reverts at the time - more than Thark, at that point. I was almost going to report them both for violation of 3RR, but thought better about getting that involved in the dispute.
I'll venture to say I don't think my post on XAndreWx's Talk was either helpful or unhelpful to Second city of the United Kingdom; I merely wanted to warn another user that getting involved with TharkunColl can lead to repercussions if one is not careful - something I learned myself. Further, connecting disparate disputes in which one person is the common link could, I hope, draw much needed attention to the poor behaviour of a particular editor. Thanks. --G2bambino 14:38, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
- Responded at User_talk:G2bambino#Re:_User_talk:XAndreWx_-_Second_city_of_UK. Sprigot 14:46, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
- Incidentally, the only way he could make my tally of edits add up to four was to accuse me of making one of them with an anonymous IP address, which, needless to say, is not only completely untrue, but is also a very good pointer to his attitude in all this. TharkunColl 14:56, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
- Actually, the edit history of the anon IP greatly resembled your own, thus is strongly appeared that you and the anon could be one and the same person. I shouldn't have jumped so quickly to the conclusion, however, as this edit would make it appear you were talking to yourself, which I doubt you do. I apologise for the misidentification. --G2bambino 15:48, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
As I said to Maxim, I haven't spoken to Andrew in several weeks now, and am not fully responsible for his behaviour. I have attempted to contact him, but to no avail...I will try again. In regards to 3RR, I fully agree with you that this behaviour should be stopped, so I would ask that you don't draw me into your 3RR and sockpuppet reports and make it seem as if I'm on his side. I'm not. I'm an external party who is currently removing the adoptee template from his userpage since that's clearly over. I'll try to talk to him again, but you can't expect me to control his behaviour fully, as it isn't possible. Giggy UCP 22:02, 19 July 2007 (UTC)