Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Grant.Alpaugh

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Grant.Alpaugh (talk · contribs · logs)

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Statement of the dispute

This user has been consistent in harassing other users in order to accomplish their goals. They have violated Wikipedia policies by being incivil and chooses to criticise the editor instead of the edits. Further there is a practically clear-cut case of sock puppetry, and at minimum meat puppetry (account Spydy13))

Desired outcome

For the sock to be properly investigated as I believe there's been an abuse of multiple accounts, further due to the pattern of disruption (ie 11 blocks on puppet master), that indef blocks are warranted. Otherwise the user must be able to contribute without frustrating other editors by unneeded reversions and to discuss edits civilly with others first, not after controversial edits.

Description

The block log of the master account shows an impressive history of harassment and edit warring, particularly in articles related to soccer.

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Nja²⁴⁷ 07:40, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Grsz¹¹ 12:52, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Other users who endorse this summary

View by involved Grsz11

I came first got involved in Major League Soccer articles (hereafter MLS) on April 1. My first action: warning Grant for edit-warring. [1]. I became more involved in the articles on April 7, helping Bobblehead (talk · contribs) fix MOS errors (links in headers) at 2009 Major League Soccer season that Grant was edit-warring against because "It's what we did last year" [2].

I edited later on April 16, because I saw a discussion about using templates so the league standings could be transcluded on a few club season articles that existed. In that discussion, Grant was openly hostile, making accusations at other editors [3], and claiming that it shouldn't be changed because it had been like this (the old, no template way) for three years that he has been involved [4].

[5] shows a series of Grant edit-warring, despite various consensus(es) in favor of what he was reverting. He was blocked on April 14 for edit-warring at 2009 Seattle Sounders FC season after continously removing templates becasue he opposed to their usage. [6] On April 16, he was blocked for a week for edit-warring at the 2009 MLS article after reverting various different edits made by myself, Skotywa (talk · contribs) and Bali ultimate (talk · contribs). He was unblocked at 02:46 April 18 because he "promised to be a good boy". At the exact same minute that he requested this last unblock, Sypdy13 (talk · contribs) was created, who then professed his opposition to templates at the talk page [7]. Grant and Spydy were blocked just an hour after the unblock when I pointed out the (very obvious) sockpuppetry. Grant claimed the other use was his brother who wanted to take part in the discussion as well. The two accounts have maintained the same position on various arguments at Template talk:2009 Major League Soccer season table and Template talk:2009 Major League Soccer Western Conference table, see Wikipedia:Suspect sock puppets/Grant.Alpaugh. Most recently, the two accounts both edit-warred at Template:2009 Major League Soccer season table.

Grant has maintained a hostile, abusive attitude towards other users who have not been involved on these pages as long as he has. He shows a ownership attitude, and that only his opinion is the correct way. He has been condesending to these lesser-involved editors (including myself) and has engaged in repeated edit-warring to surpress their opinions and the consensus they have achieved. Grsz¹¹ 16:44, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Summary

The user has been indefinitely blocked per WP:SOCK. Nja²⁴⁷ 16:31, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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