Toggle menu
Toggle preferences menu
Toggle personal menu
Not logged in
Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits.

Editing Battlestar Wiki:Sock puppetry

From the only original and legitimate Battlestar Wiki: the free-as-in-beer, non-corporate, open-content encyclopedia, analytical reference, and episode guide on all things Battlestar Galactica. Accept neither subpar substitutes nor subpar clones.
Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then publish the changes below to finish undoing the edit.
Latest revision Your text
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Proposed Policy|shortcut=BW:SOCK|23 March 2007}}
{{Proposed Policy}}
 
A '''sock puppet''' is a second account created by a user to give the appearance of additional support for the views or actions of the main account.
 
== Identifying a sock puppet ==
 
Sock puppets can typically be identified by an administrator with "checkuser" privileges. Basically, this entails comparing the IP addresses of two suspected users to see if they correlate.
 
While not entirely conclusive, it may or may not identify sock puppets. Therefore, additional means of evidence gathering must be used. This includes:
 
* comparing the editing patterns of the users in question, which includes:
** what articles they edit
** when they edit
** how they communicate with other users
* comparing view points
 
== Uses of a sock puppet ==
 
Sock puppets are used for two reasons:
 
# to circumvent [[Battlestar Wiki:Policy|policy]],
# to give the appearance of additional "outsider" support for a certain idea or POV where outsider support is minimal or non-existant.
 
Sock puppets are typically used to:
 
# Circumvent [[BW:BLOCK|blocks]] or [[BW:BAN|bans]].
# Come up in processes where voting is used as a tool to determine consensus, such as [[BW:TANK|Think Tank]]s, [[BW:RFA|Requests for adminship]], [[BW:RFC|Request for comment]], and [[Battlestar Wiki:Candidates for deletion|deletion discussions]].
# To present support for an argument, or to make an opposing argument weaker through the use of "[[w:straw man|straw man]]" argumentation.
# For the purposes of [[w:internet troll|trolling]] while maintaining an account that is viewed as "legitimate".
 
== Accepted uses ==
 
There is only one accepted use for a "sock puppet" account on ''Battlestar Wiki''.
 
=== Bots ===
 
{{mainarticle|Battlestar Wiki:Bots}}
 
Bots are considered a type of "sock puppet" run by a contributor on the wiki. Bots are types of programs that work on [[Battlestar Wiki:Tasks|maintenance tasks]] on the wiki, such as listing articles that have been categorized for cleanup, merges, splits or have been identified as articles that are requested or are stubs that need the attention of contributors. 
 
Bots are vetted through a verification and testing process prior to deployment on the wiki and can be blocked if they cause problems.

To edit this page, please enter the words that appear below in the box (more info):

Refresh
Cancel Editing help (opens in new window)

  [] · [[]] · [[|]] · {{}} · · “” ‘’ «» ‹› „“ ‚‘ · ~ | °   · ± × ÷ ² ³ ½ · §
     [[Category:]] · [[:File:]] · [[Special:MyLanguage/]] · <code></code> · <nowiki></nowiki> <code><nowiki></nowiki></code> · <syntaxhighlight></syntaxhighlight> · <includeonly></includeonly> · <noinclude></noinclude> · #REDIRECT[[]] · <translate></translate> · <languages/> · {{#translation:}} · <tvar|></> · {{DEFAULTSORT:}} · <categorytree></categorytree> · <div style="clear:both;"></div> <s></s>


Your changes will be visible immediately.
  • For testing, please use the sandbox instead.
  • On talk pages, please sign your comment by typing four tildes (~~~~).