Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CarlHewitt/Archive

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• {{checkip|63.249.108.250}}
• {{checkip|68.170.176.166}}
• {{checkip|70.132.17.91}}
• {{checkip|70.231.250.190}}
• {{checkip|70.231.253.115}}
• {{checkip|76.254.235.105}}
• {{checkip|99.29.247.230}}
• {{checkip|171.66.35.196}}

See: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Carl Hewitt#Carl Hewitt banned from autobiographical editing

The above IP addresses (in addition to 71.198.220.76, banned a month ago) were involved in similar-looking controversial edits to these articles:

• {{la|Actor model}}
• {{la|Denotational semantics}}
• {{la|Event calculus}}
• {{la|Futures and promises}}
• {{la|History of the Scheme programming language}}

—Piet Delport (talk) 2009-10-21 01:29

See Defending yourself against claims.

• Based on user agents the assessment of the filer is quite accurate. All the IPs are very {{likely}} all the same person. Can't say anything as for the connection to CarlHewitt though. Brandon (talk) 21:55, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

{{admin-note}} Not like it matters much at this point, but User:CarlHewitt is now indefinitely blocked. The IPs are clearly his socks. However, since the IPs are hopping all over the place, blocking would not work here. Page protection (via WP:RFPP) may be the only viable course of admin action here if they continue the disruption. MuZemike 22:43, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

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• {{checkip|1=99.29.247.230}}
• {{checkip|1=68.65.169.149}}
• {{checkip|1=17.244.70.121}}
• {{checkip|1=68.65.169.149}}
• {{checkip|1=64.9.240.145 }}
• {{checkip|1=98.210.236.39}}
• {{checkip|1=17.244.70.240}}
• {{checkip|1=71.198.220.76}} (already blocked but back again)
• {{checkip|1=63.249.99.129}}
• {{checkip|1=17.226.15.239}}
• {{checkip|1=68.65.169.140}}
• {{checkuser|1=Untalker}}
• {{checkip|64.9.238.118}} (added 02:31, 6 May 2010 (UTC))
• {{checkip|63.112.0.74}} (added 21:53, 8 May 2010 (UTC))

Gödel's incompleteness theorems is currently semi-protected due to edit warring and talk page disruption from multiple Hewitt-related IP's. 99.29.247.230 in particular seems to be a somewhat long-term address that has been pushing Hewittcruft into several articles. Talk:Gödel's incompleteness theorems/Archive 8 contains a recent flare-up where Hewitt's socks distract everyone with an extended debate about Ludwig Wittgenstein. All of the above IP's posted to it. 98.210.236.39 is also currently active. I think the addresses that have been in use for more than a few months should get longish-term blocks.

• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Carl Hewitt#Log_of_blocks_and_bans I believe this log to be somewhat incomplete since various enforcement actions over the course of time have not been logged.

• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive597#Carl_Hewitt incident report from a few months ago that summarizes some past history

I am giving generally just 1 diff per article since it's all the same stuff we've seen before. I haven't looked at them carefully so I haven't necessarily picked the most egregious. While some of the diffs are old, the IP's all still have recent activity. Most are only on Talk:Gödel's incompleteness theorems but some are spread further out. Although I didn't file this with a CU request, it occurs to me he's used sleeper socks before (User:Madmediamaven) so you might want to checkuser the IP's for socking and sleeper creation.

• talk:History_of_the_Scheme_programming_language
• Denotational semantics and its talkpage
• Criticism of Google [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Criticism_of_Google&diff=prev&oldid=311510962]
• Actor model [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Actor_model&diff=prev&oldid=309660545] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Actor_model&diff=prev&oldid=359789625] (that edit made today)
• Paraconsistent logic [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paraconsistent_logic&diff=prev&oldid=359272369]
• Erlang_(programming_language) User Untalker (not obviously a sock but who knows) inserts promotion of Hewitt's work sourced to somebody's post on an internet forum,[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Erlang_%28programming_language%29&diff=prev&oldid=353747306] IP sock contests a later reversion, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Erlang_%28programming_language%29&diff=prev&oldid=354041384] defends Hewitt prmotion by saying the forum poster "seems to know the history and it's hard to find independent published references".[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Erlang_(programming_language)&diff=prev&oldid=354148138]
• Lambda calculus [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lambda_calculus&diff=prev&oldid=346725361]
• Talk:History of the Scheme programming language More self promotion.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:History_of_the_Scheme_programming_language&diff=prev&oldid=346665803]
• History of the Scheme programming language POV injection.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_Scheme_programming_language&diff=prev&oldid=346969595]
• Gödel's incompleteness theorems Considerable edit warring at this article leading to current semi-protection per User:CBM's request for arbitration enforcement.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement&diff=359189966&oldid=359158615]
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Denotational_semantics#Reply_to_.22madmediamaven.22 This conversation] got me pretty annoyed; he gets into an argument with another researcher who has to be nice to him. There are other venues for that.
• Talk:Actor model, nice taunt mentioned in ANI report above.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Actor_model&diff=344270153&oldid=344269453] That diff is 2.5 months old but the IP is editing the same article as recently as earlier today.

• He has a Knol rant "Corruption of Wikipedia".[http://knol.google.com/k/carl-hewitt-see-http-carlhewitt-info/corruption-of-wikipedia] obviously not subject to wikipedia sanctions, but I thought you might like it anyway.

69.228.170.24 (talk) 05:21, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

• Sock whines at Talk:Gödel's incompleteness theorems,[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems&diff=prev&oldid=360429425] reverted by Gavia Immer,[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems&diff=next&oldid=360429530], sock re-reverts.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems&diff=next&oldid=360430437] A new sock adds a dumb comment the next day.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems&diff=prev&oldid=360636562]

69.228.170.24 (talk) 02:31, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

I archived the thread and new sock restores.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems&diff=prev&oldid=360959960] This latest sock is also promoting Hewitt at Actor model.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Actor_model&diff=prev&oldid=360961440][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Actor_model&diff=prev&oldid=360962933] 69.228.170.24 (talk) 21:08, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Opened community ban proposal at WP:ANI, since moved by Pcap to WP:AN#Proposed_community_ban_for_Carl_Hewitt. 69.228.170.24 (talk) 03:55, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

See Defending yourself against claims.

• Various admins have needed to semiprotect Logic programming a few times over the past three years due to IPs that were promoting Hewitt's papers. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Logic+programming the protection log]. EdJohnston (talk) 22:12, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

There's nothing else to really do here. The IPs are all over the place, so rangeblocking is impossible. Blocking IPs would turn into a game of Whack-A-Mole. The only other actions that could be taken is article semi-protection (in which a couple already are). –MuZemike 21:56, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

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