User:Jonas Rand/Sam Blacketer Timeline

• 27 March 2004: David Boothroyd begins editing, as "Dbiv", making his first edit to a Wikipedia talk page for the article on a British general election.
• 20 January 2005: After making over 2000 edits, User:Dbiv successfully becomes an administrator as a result of a self-nomination.
• 15 February 2006: Dbiv is blocked for a violation of the Three Revert Rule, whereupon he unblocks himself using administrative tools, giving the reason "Yes, I know I am not supposed to do this. Justification 1: Block was wrongly applied. Justification 2: I have a major edit which I am not going to lose come what may. WP:IAR applies."
• 9 June 2006: Dbiv enters himself into the arbitration case regarding Irishpunktom. Prior to that, he commenced working on a "Draft RFC [request for comment]" on Irishpunktom, who he had edit-warred with in the past. The focus of the arbitration is an editing dispute that Dbiv and Irishpunktom have regarding the article Peter Tatchell. The arbitration results in the removal of Dbiv's administrative tools; additionally, among the Arbitration Committee's findings is that Dbiv's unblocking of himself was an abuse of administrative tools.
• 21 August 2006: Dbiv creates the User:DavidBoothroyd account, stating that it is to be used solely for editing his biography (at the time, he was the subject of a biographical article).
• 27 August 2006: Tony Sidaway blocks Dbiv for a week, for knowingly violating the ArbCom restriction by editing the Peter Tatchell article.
• 31 August 2006: Boothroyd logs in to the DavidBoothroyd account, using it as a sock puppet account to evade the one-week block and report User:Calton to the "Personal attacks noticeboard". His usage of the account contradicts the statements that he made about the purpose of the account. Boothroyd says about the usage of the account for purposes not previously outlined:

"I registered this account solely so I would be able to correct material inaccuracies in my own biography. However, I now find myself forced to resort to it to action this change, which I am explicitly allowed to do: I want all talk to go to User talk:Dbiv. If you need to leave messages about User:80.177.212.6 do so at the user page, not the talk page. This seems perfectly fair to m e. Meanwhile Calton is being disruptive. He is not an admin and has no role in any of this."

• 7 October 2006: User:Dbiv is renamed to "Fys" upon his request, citing concerns about the connection to his real-life identity.
• 4 December 2006: After Fys re-creates the User:Dbiv account to avoid impersonation, he uses it to create a userpage for User:Dbiv, with the cryptic text "I have laid down this title and do go by another." This gives the appearance of a user who had "retired", and decided to come back under a different account (rather than just being renamed). When an unrelated user later asks him what it was, he reverts the edit with the summary "none of your business".

• 12 December 2006: User:Sam_Blacketer is registered. Keeps a very low profile, shows intricate knowledge of MediaWiki, displays experience with Wikipedia. Begins with work on London boroughs; in one day uploads a photo of his cat, creating a userpage displaying the photo. This is an undeclared sockpuppet of Fys, which was created and used actively in conjunction with the Fys account.

<add material about his days as "Fys">

• 3 February 2007: As activity by the Fys account declines and the Sam_Blacketer account accumulates edits, a user asks who Dbiv's other name is after viewing the User:Dbiv page. Although it was quite obvious that Dbiv was Fys, which is probably what was initially meant by "I have laid down this title and do go by another", no link was made to the Sam_Blacketer account. Within seconds, Fys (as Dbiv) reverts the user with "none of your business". On that day, Fys makes 4 edits and Sam_Blacketer makes two.

• 28 April 2007: Boothroyd again successfully passes a request for adminship after a self-nomination, this time as Sam_Blacketer. The self-nomination RFA passes 57-5-3, support-oppose-neutral. At this time, the only personal information revealed about this user is that he is from the United Kingdom.

<activities as Sam Blacketer, arbitrator, etc>

• November 2007: Boothroyd hurls aspersions at Gregory Kohs, the founder of MyWikiBiz. On a mailing list maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation, Boothroyd sneered, "I hope Greg Kohs is sick as a parrot." When reprimanded for this being a gratuitous comment, Boothroyd only upped the ante from behind his protective cloak of fake identity, saying that both MyWikiBiz's business transactions and content were "not ethical".

<getting exposed: my e-mails, tarantino's discovery, the WR thread inquiring as to his identity>

<scandal>