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[edit] Riprowan

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Filed: 08:37, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Code letter: E
  • Supporting Evidence
    • 1) 10:05, August 4, 2007 (Riprowan posts his external link) (Edit summary:"")
    • 2) 18:02, October 10, 2007 {MadSquirrel reverts deletion) (Edit Summary: "Undid revision 163603551 by GlassFET")
    • 3) 02:34, October 12, 2007 {MadSquirrel reverts deletion) (Edit Summary: "Undid revision 163894082 by Jrod2 - "Over The Limit" is the source of much material in this article, see talk page")
    • 4) 04:21, October 13, 2007 (81.168.49.157 reverts deletion) (Edit Summary: "Undid revision 164044418 by Jrod2")
    • 5) 03:09, November 10, 2007 (MadSquirrel reverts deletion) (Edit Summary: "Reinstating ProRec link - article has been published (albeit in reduced form), see talk page")


Explanation: It appears that the MadSquirrel and Riprowan user accounts have only one purpose, to make sure Rip Rowan's web site article is linked to one WP article called the "Loudness war" (please, see their contributions). First of all, the link is to a blog article that was previously deleted for that reason, and second, its re-insertion by the author violates WP guidelines because an article's author can not post his own link to reference it to a WP article. Especially if he owns the site where the article is. This user has cost a lot of disruption to the talk page already with long threads of comments. A new RfC was requested, but MadSquirrel unilaterally has already re-inserted the aforesaid external link without reaching a general consensus (see: supporting evidence #5). Prior to all this, he reverted the deletion of the link to this article 3 times using most likely an anon IP sock to avoid 3RR violation (see: supporting evidence #2#3&#4). Riprowan and MadSquirrel have been making disrupting comments to create support in favor of keeping that said external link (see: [1][2]) . MadSquirrel is obviously a one purpose account that looks like Rowan's sock puppet. Evinatea 13:37, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Please format this appropriately. For a perfect example of how the Supporting Evidence section should look, see Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Legacy7. --Deskana (talk) 01:31, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Confirmed MadSquirrel = 81.168.49.157. Unrelated to Riprowan. --Deskana (talk) 19:55, 11 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Riprowan

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Filed: 07:55, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Code letter: E: The MadSquirrel or Riprowan accounts have apparently one purpose, to make Rip Rowan's external link to his article be included at the WP article "Loudness war" [3]. The link is to a blog and it violates WP guidelines. He has most likely reverted the deletion of the link to his article 3 times using an anon IP sock to avoid 3RR violation (see: [4][5][6])

and using sock puppets to create support in favor of keeping that said external link (see: [7][8]). Jrod2 07:55, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Declined. Not an extant problem. --Deskana (talk) 18:13, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
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