Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Professorgupta

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Professorgupta





 * Code letter: C

Serious ongoing pattern spammers. Very similar modus operandi (method of operation), so it could be useful to detect if they are related, and if any other accounts are related. Professorgupta is under a community ban, discussed on WP:AN. Steroid Expert was blocked indefinitely by Jimbo.

Both users exhibit a pattern of "legitimate edits" which mask concerted spamming attempts. There is lengthy documentation at the Administrator's Noticeboard post regarding Professorgupta. Steroid Expert was spamming the link  http://www.falconliving.com/ . As Jimbo noted, he was contributing in random ways to the encyclopedia to mask his spam link additions.

Cheers, ✎ Peter M Dodge  (  Talk to Me  &bull;  Neutrality Project  ) 20:45, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Obviously, I recuse myself from any clerking activities related to this case. ✎ Peter M Dodge  (  Talk to Me  &bull;  Neutrality Project  ) 20:45, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * ❌ Though the strategies do seem similar. --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 05:55, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the investigation. This now raises larger issues of why these people are using similar strategies.  I will look into this further.  Cheers, ✎  Peter M Dodge  (  Talk to Me  &bull;  Neutrality Project  ) 06:10, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

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