Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Maxt

=== Maxt ===

• {{checkuser|Maxt}}

• {{checkuser|Adm30}}
• {{checkuser|Bcode}}
• {{checkip|82.81.26.31}}

• Code letter:— (Disruptive "throwaway" account used only for a few edits)

User:Maxt seems to be pursuing to start an edit war by repeatedly changing the Disk encryption software page to remove a particular subsection (Windows/PocketPC) beneath Disk encryption software#Cross-Platform.

This change has been extensively discussed on Talk:Disk encryption software, and marked with

the {{disputed}} template to show that he is disputing it - which he is also removing, despite the apparent consensus to keep this subsection. (See [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disk_encryption_software&oldid=96084369] for version prior to his reverts)

I suspect both User:Adm30 and User:Bcode as being possible sock puppets as they have been created within the last day, both of which have almost immediately jumped onto the talk page supporting his POV which; a) opposes the consensus on the talk page, and b) does not follow already established precedent in Wikipedia (that the PocketPC is a separate platform to Windows; see Windows software and PocketPC software).

This article gets relatively few edits anyone other than a handful of users, and the chances of two new users jumping onto it at the same time to support a view which only one person maintains seem relatively suspicious to say the least.

The only other edits carried out by these users are to create a Sentry 2020 page, which they are both carrying out opposing edits to which, again given the popularity of this type of software, I suspect is the beginnings of a straw man to deflect attention and make these users appear more legitimate in order to bolster his arguments on the Talk page

Repeated reverts by Maxt include:

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disk_encryption_software&diff=96084843&oldid=96084369 10:50, 23 December 2006]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disk_encryption_software&diff=96084189&oldid=96083860 10:43, 23 December 2006]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disk_encryption_software&diff=96080447&oldid=95894383 09:59, 23 December 2006]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disk_encryption_software&diff=95732272&oldid=95510846 15:07, 21 December 2006]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disk_encryption_software&diff=94492909&oldid=94343704 11:50, 15 December 2006]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disk_encryption_software&diff=94301000&oldid=94143886 16:04, 14 December 2006]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disk_encryption_software&diff=93629892&oldid=93403063 19:05, 11 December 2006]

Nuwewsco 21:45, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

{{Confirmed}} that Maxt = Adm30. Bcode is {{Inconclusive}}. Essjay (Talk) 01:06, 24 December 2006 (UTC)