Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Anvil Media Inc

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Anvil Media Inc
First batch




 * Code letter: G


 * Supporting evidence: We seem to have a sockfarm here belonging to Anvil Media Inc. Anvil's business seems to be, er, editing Wikipedia for profit. Per WP:COIN and WP:ANI discussion, there could be many accounts involved. Some blocks have already been handed out. I suggested a CU an ANI to sort this right out, and met with support, so here goes. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 11:45, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I wonder if a look down their client list and cross-checking against any suspicious recent edits to their client's entries (if they have them) may also help? GBT/C 12:09, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * That's a good idea, although I fear most may not have entries. Care to help me do it? ;-) Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 12:12, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure - am picking them at random and having a look - there's definitely some out there... What I may do is copy them to a subpage on my userspace, then we can work on them together, crossing them off, notes, etc.? GBT/C 12:19, 24 July 2008 (UTC)


 * That sounds good to me, yeah. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 12:21, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Done - at User:Gb/Anvil. If you want to start at the bottom, I'll start at the top - strikeout those that don't look compromised, or don't have articles, and scribble notes alongside any others. GBT/C 12:24, 24 July 2008 (UTC)


 * ✅ that Mrtriviamaniacman is 70.89.191.245. Anvil Media Inc is not obviously related per . You knew that already, of course!  The other users you give are too old to check.  Others that are likely to be the same include:
 * Eric and Sherridan
 * Nierengm
 * KimKnees
 * Srschram
 * Possibly also connected
 * Lnp5019
 * Mattschmidt
 * Propulsionml (these three are certainly related to each other)
 * This is all that appears on the ranges being used. Sam Korn (smoddy) 12:25, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Second batch

We've gone through the relevant articles and turned up the following likely socks based on their contributions. Could you please check these? Same code as before. Thanks. GBT/C 07:52, 25 July 2008 (UTC)


 * stale
 * stale
 * stale
 * stale
 * duplicate
 * duplicate
 * stale
 * stale
 * stale
 * stale
 * stale
 * stale
 * ✅ Googles503 is KimKnees, Mrtriviamaniacman etc. Blogwonder is unrelated to the Anvil group, as probably is Rygel73.  Great work looking through all these!  Sam Korn (smoddy) 10:11, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * stale
 * ✅ Googles503 is KimKnees, Mrtriviamaniacman etc. Blogwonder is unrelated to the Anvil group, as probably is Rygel73.  Great work looking through all these!  Sam Korn (smoddy) 10:11, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ Googles503 is KimKnees, Mrtriviamaniacman etc. Blogwonder is unrelated to the Anvil group, as probably is Rygel73.  Great work looking through all these!  Sam Korn (smoddy) 10:11, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

I have indef blocked all the accounts we could confirm, and taken out the IP for a month. Good work everyone! Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 11:55, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

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