Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Begoon

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Begoon

Status: open • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 14:56, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

• Begoon (talk • contribs • Luxo's • SUL • deleted contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser)

Suspected related users

• GuerillaHunter (talk • contribs • Luxo's • SUL • deleted contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser)

Rationale, discussion and results

Reason: per DUCK, and the fact that racial abuse, or allegations of it, should be taken extremely seriously. Refer to this ANU thread and this talk page discussion. Though there was a day between edits of the same page see timeline, the locus and subject are too similar for this to be written off as coincidence and must be an account created for the single purpose of harassment from someone previously involved with at least one of the parties. The more general interaction shows a closer related overlap of edits on the same day of the racial abuse by a sock account. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 15:23, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

• I strongly support a CU to figure out who actually made the now-deleted comment, I can't see it, but TCells reply to it makes it pretty clear what was said, and I don't feel like DUCK applies here in the absence of evidence that Begoon has made racist comments in the past. Somebody was certainly acting in bad faith. It's entirely possible it was just some random troll who did it "for the lulz" or something like that, CU should probably check everyone involved in that discussion given the history here. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:13, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

• I should hope that this wasn't done by any established user, but rather one of our normal trolls monitoring high-profile discussions because they have nothing better to do. The commentary is egregious and rightly redacted. Whether it was by an established user or a troll, they have no place here. GMG^talk 20:34, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Agree, this SPI is more about clearing the allegation with DUCK simply implying that the sock account is a sock rather than a vandal, not that the sock master is clear. If there is a more obvious account that stands out in the timeline they should be added. A brief check over recent history does not show directly related patterns in the use of language. There are trolls who will want to lionize throwing "fuck off" at other contributors, and will find hostile abuse and threats as having "the potential to be funny".[1] --Fæ (talk) 22:38, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

• Inconclusive on the troll account, Declined on the main. GuerillaHunter has no one else on his/her IP, which is probably a VPN or proxy. There will be no technical confirmation on this user. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 19:04, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

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